The DTM continues to recruit talent for the 2022 season with a new addition of many carats. Nicki Thiim will compete with one of T3 Motorsport’s Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo, giving even more level to a grid full of the best riders in the specialty. The Dane, double World Endurance Champion in the GT category, will not only make his debut in the DTM, but will also make history as the first son of a champion of the event to contest the championship. His father, Kurt Thiim, won the DTM in 1986.
Following in his father’s footsteps, Thiim will make his DTM debut to compete in all sixteen races the series has scheduled for the 2022 season. A program in which will join forces with the British Esmee Hawkey within the T3 Motorsport projecta team that last year was Lamborghini’s priority partner in the DTM, but this year has taken a backseat with the emergence of the GRT Grasser team in the event, since the Austrian team is Lamborghini’s benchmark team.
Despite this circumstance, Thiim’s presence in the T3 Motorsport team raises the level of the project. In the end, Thiim is a double WEC World Champion in the GTE category and in his record he has up to eight participations in Le Mans -with a class victory- and four complete seasons in the WEC. With Aston Martin GT3 vehicles he has competed in the British GT for two seasonsin addition to making occasional appearances in the IMSA GTD class.
Nicki Thiim will combine this new program in the DTM with his presence in the WEC LMGTE-Am class with NorthWest AMR after receiving permission from Aston Martin, a manufacturer that has him on the payroll: «It seems clear that the DTM has been in my DNA and that sooner or later I had to compete here. To achieve it with the T3 Motorsport team after 20 years is something absolutely special. I am happy to be able to race in the DTM as the first son of a champion of the contest. It will be something unique.”
In this line, Thiim as a new driver for T3 Motorsport, a team with which he will compete with the bib #95added just a few days after winning the 1,000 Miles of Sebring in the WEC in the LMGTE-Am category: «The teams and drivers in the new DTM season speak perfectly of their level. I think it’s the strongest DTM grid I’ve seen in over a decade. Our project has a lot to say. The team is a strong structure and I am looking forward to the new season.».
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