The DTM championship held the final two rounds of the 2025 season at the Hockenheim circuit in Germany this past weekend. BMW team Schubert Motorsport came away with a podium finish in the second race but fell short of the championship.
In a wet race one, the two BMW M4 GT3 EVOs were both outside the top five, with René Rast finishing seventh in the #33 car and Marco Wittmann finishing in eighteenth in the #11. Rast still had a shot at the driver’s championship going into the final race on Sunday and made a great start, moving up into second before getting hit by two different cars from behind, which ended his race and championship hopes. Marco Wittmann put in a great drive in race two to finish second after starting from seventeenth.
In the final tally after the last race, Wittmann ended up fifth in the driver’s championship, with Rast right behind in sixth. The championship went to Porsche driver Ayhancan Güven. Güven’s Manthey Porsche team won the team championship, with Schubert finishing second. BMW M finished third in manufacturer points. “Overall, we had a good season and celebrated several victories,” said Schubert Team Principal Torsten Schubert. “Our pit stops were consistently top-level. It would have been well-deserved for us to finish at the top of the championship standings. But we’ll take it as it is and come back stronger next season.”
BMW finished the season with eight podium finishes, including three wins. The highlights of the season were certainly the three one-two finishes at Zandvoort, the Nürburgring and the Red Bull Ring. While it sounds like BMW will be back in DTM next year, Rast won’t. He’s going to focus on his other drives with BMW M Motorsport, like his role as a regular driver in the M Hybrid V8 in WEC Hypercer.
The 2026 DTM season starts on the weekend of April 23rd-25th at the Red Bull Ring in Austria.
—David Haueter
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