Nico Müller: Back to Team Rosberg
ON A NEW This is what his fans have been waiting for. Nico Müller is staying in the DTM with GT3 sports cars. As in the early days of his career, the man from Bern will drive for Team Rosberg. Shortly before the turn of the year, the team led by team boss Kimmo Liimatainen announced that it will defend its drivers' title from the 2020 season in the DTM. [...]
Shortly before the turn of the year, the squad led by team boss Kimmo Liimatainen announced that it would defend its drivers' title from the 2020 season in the DTM. But no longer with three-time champion René Rast as spearhead, who is focusing on Formula E with Audi, but with Nico Müller. The second driver in a new Audi R8 LMS GT3 is the American Dev Gore, who is hardly known in Europe.
Good from experience
With Nico Müller, the reigning DTM runner-up returns to the team founded by former F1 World Champion Keke Rosberg in 1994. In the 2014 season, the driver from Bern began his DTM career with the Audi team from Neustadt (not far from Hockenheim). Müller is one of the DTM drivers with the most experience in handling GT3 sports cars.
Meanwhile, Dev Gore will be the second US driver in DTM history after Joey Hand. The youngster has proven his qualities in international formula series and also already in GT3.
Joy over Müller's return
Managing Director Kimmo Liimatainen looks back on exhausting weeks and months in which he pushed ahead with the realignment of his team.
Kimmo Liimatainen: "It's good and logical that we continue to be associated with Audi Sport in customer sport as well after the incredible successes of recent years. When I was then able to tell our team in the last few days that Nico Müller is returning to us, it was a very special moment and the joy was enormous. This once again underlines our ambitions to fight for the title with a strong team."
Motivation injection
After his previous team ABT Sportsline announced its intention to remain in the DTM before the turn of the year, Nico Müller made no secret of his desire to continue racing in the DTM as well. Now he is doing so with Team Rosberg.
Nico Müller: "I'm very happy to return to Team Rosberg and to be back in the DTM in 2021. To be in the hunt for the title with an Audi R8 LMS at the start of the new era with adapted technical regulations motivates me a lot. Let's go!"
Test drives in a month
The 29-year-old Swiss will work together on the race track for the first time during the official tests at the Hockenheimring (April 7-8) and the Lausitzring (May 4-6). The season kicks off at Monza from June 18 to 20.
Each of the eight race weekends of the 2021 season will feature one race on Saturday and one on Sunday. All 16 DTM races will be broadcast live in Germany by SAT.1.
