DTM 2023: Winner relied on suspension from KW
SUCCESS For three years now, racing cars have also been entered in the DTM according to the GT3 regulations. During this time, the motorsport customers of the KW Group have already won the DTM twice with KW V6 Racing dampers.
While in 2022 Sheldon van der Linde and Schubert Motorsport won the drivers' and teams' championships with the BMW M4 GT3, Thomas Preining (center gallery), Porsche and Manthey EMA are now celebrating winning the drivers', manufacturers' and teams' championships in the 2023 DTM season. In the still young GT3 customer sports history of the DTM, this was the first time that a driver has won pole position and overall victory at both races of a DTM round.
Success for the Porsche 911 GT3 R
The suspension manufacturer develops and manufactures its well-known KW racing dampers and complete suspensions for the customer sports of various automobile manufacturers. Since 2022, KW automotive has also been supplying the solid-piston racing dampers to race cars in the DTM. These are homologated worldwide for all BMW M4 GT3 and Porsche 911 GT3 R. Similar to 2022, when the BMW M4 GT3 successfully completed its first championship under competitive conditions, Porsche repeated this in 2023 with the 911 GT3 R.
Florian Johann from KW Brand Management: "The 2023 season was very successful for our motorsport customers in the DTM. In 13 of 16 races, our customers always finished with at least one race car among the top 3. Of the total of 28 race cars in the DTM, we equipped four BMW M4 GT3 and six Porsche 911 GT3 R with the V6 racing dampers."
Coilovers for aftermarket
The suspension manufacturer also always adapts the KW-automotive Group's developments for motorsport for its coilovers on the aftermarket and accessories market. Thus, all KW coilovers that can be manually adjusted in the damper characteristics are based on developments from motorsport. More than 40 engineers, designers and technicians work at KW's headquarters in Fichtenberg, Germany, on chassis development alone for the selected small series of the automotive industry, motorsport and the independent aftermarket.
