Audi driver Rene Rast wins the 2020 DTM driver's championship

In 2017, Rene Rast clinched the championship title in his first DTM season at the Hockenheim finale. In 2018, the Audi Sport Team Rosberg driver became runner-up, only four points behind Gary Paffett in the Mercedes-Benz after a unique comeback with six consecutive victories.

In 2019, Rast was the outstanding driver in the first year of the Class 1 era with the new four-cylinder turbo engines. As early as the third-last race of the season, Rast secured his second DTM title at the Nurburgring. Now in 2020, it was once again a comeback and the successful defence of the title.

One of the first to congratulate Rast in the Hockenheim parc-ferme was Markus Duesmann, CEO of AUDI AG. "Congratulations to Rene Rast on the title, but also to ABT for the teams' title and the entire Audi Sport team. What everyone has achieved together in the last year of our factory DTM commitment is truly unique."

Head of Audi Motorsport Dieter Gass accepted the trophy for winning the manufacturers' championship, which Audi won with 1253:500 points. Team coordinator Maike Frik accepted the championship trophy for the teams' championship on behalf of Audi Sport Team Abt Sportsline, which also took second and third place in the drivers' championship with Nico Muller and Robin Frijns.

In the last DTM season on a factory level, Audi won 16 of 18 races. 17 times an Audi RS5 DTM started from pole position and on top of this, there were 16 fastest race laps.

From 2021 onwards, the DTM will be held with GT3 race cars. At Audi, the racing series will then become part of the customer racing program with the Audi R8 LMS.