5th + 6th run  23th - 25th of June 1995
200 Miles of Nuernberg
Norisring

News

Opel drivers triumph in Le Mans

Yannick Dalmas and JJ Lehto, both Opel works drivers, were given some
holiday to take part in the 24 hours of Le Mans in a McLaren- BMW. The
holiday proved worth while taking, as the two returned as the over all
winners of this most famous 24 hours race in the world. So the number of
Le Mans winners in the Opel team has grown to four with eight victories
altogether. Klaus Ludwig (`79, `84 and '85), Yannick Dalmas ('92, '94
and '95), Manuel Reuter (`89) and "rookie" JJ Lehto. There's only one Le
Mans winner in the DTM grid, who doesn't drive an Opel: Louis Krages,
who succeded in 1985 together with Klaus Ludwig, is driving a Mercedes
this year.

Money for Brazilian children

As they did in 1994, all the Mercedes drivers are racing for a good
cause at the Norisring. Mercedes is awarding it's drivers with money
prizes using a special ratio formula. All the money will be given to
the "children of Brazil" association, which is supported not only by
Brazilian racing drivers like "Emmo" and Christian Fittipaldi, but by
Gerhard Berger too. These prizes are not only offered for good race
results, but for Top Qualifying results also. Resulting from this
campaign, supported by stickers on the side windows of all Mercedes'
competing in DTM, Mercedes succeeded in collecting remarkable 39.000 DM
in 1994.

A new face at Alfa Corse 2

A rather surprising driver change has happened at Alfa Corse 2. The
white Alfa 155 V6 Ti, normally driven by Stig Amthor, will be raced by
Fabrizio Giovanardi this weekend. Giovanardi, normally driver in the
Italian Touring Car Championship: "This is really a lot of fun. Compared
to this powerful racing car my usual racer feels like a truck. I am
really enjoying competing here." But Fabrizio won't be able to enjoy
this fun for more than one race. Amthor just agreed not to start at
the Norisring in favour of Giovanardi, as he had had some sponsorship
problems. In Donington Amthor will be back behind the wheel of his Alfa.