#dtmsummer

[marusinda]

And he will win his home race ❤️

[jup1t33r]

DTM Summer Information

hello! this summer i am hosting a dtm watchalong. come join!

what is dtm?

dtm stands for deutsche tourenwagen masters, and is a racing series for modified gt3 cars. similar to f1, the drivers and teams are consistent throughout a racing season, and there is a drivers championship, teams championship, and manufacurers championship.

(there are a lot more technical regulation stuff that distinguishes dtm cars from other classes, and we will be seeing changes in those regs throughout the seasons we watch, but we won't get into the nitty gritty of that right now. unless you want to, in which case, hit up deputy tanz: @renndistanz.)

a dtm race weekend consists of two qualifyings and two races. qualifying 1, on sat, sets the grid for race 1, on sat, and qualifying 2, on sun, sets the grid for race 2, on sun. each season has 8-10 race weekends.

here's a link to the website: dtm.com

what dates does the watchalong run?

we will start jun 1, and i expect us to run to around september. i cannot say for sure when it will end because 2019 is still in the air, and we may need to cancel some dates for other real-time racing things.

we will be watching from 2015 (because that's the year luggi auer started and he's my new muffin) to the present day. we will be watching one race weekend every day (special circumstances potentially withstanding). "days" will be counted in cest (utc+2).

how do i watch?

every sunday at 6pm cest, i will create a post with the schedule for the upcoming week (i am one of those annoying people who counts the start of the week as a monday) with links to each of the qualifyings and races. all links will be the english streams, but i will also provide a link to the whole playlist for the weekend so you can find the german streams and also see all the other videos from the weekend (such as highlights, onboards, etc).

all dtm races are on youtube, but are geoblocked in some regions. if you are in a geoblocked region, use a vpn set to germany. if you don't have a vpn, firefox has a free built-in vpn. if you don't have access to a computer, proton vpn is free for mobile.

what are the watchalong activites?

make it your own! i personally will be creating a post for every session with my thoughts, personal highlights, and updated championship standings. i will also be created a dedicated yapping post (DYP) at the head of every day (12am cest) as a place to chat with everyone in the comments. and i will liveblog my watching experience, but i cannot promise a consistent time or that i'll do it every day.

if you want to do one post of highlights, if you want to liveblog your own watching experience, if you want to share pictures from the race weekend, if you want to do dedicated analyses, if you want to share your thoughts via ask, if you want to comment on other people's posts, or if you just want to lurk, go for it! the world is your oyster.

the tag for this whole thing is #dtmsummer. tag your stuff so everyone can see!

this is a low pressure thing (despite the rapid pace). if you want to participate but need to skip days, or don't want to watch qualifyings, or only want to watch races i give glowing reviews to after the fact, then all good. i myself can't promise that i will be able to do it every single day! (that being said i will always post a DYP). the schedule is there to guide us, but if you watch or chat or post late or not at all, no worries :D

okay, so what's this 'dedicated yap post' thing????

essentially, i just want a place where we can all chat! you are always free to make your own posts, reblog anybody else's posts, yap in tags, leave comments under other posts, etc., but if you have thoughts that you want to share without making your own post about it, or you want to see what people who aren't me might think about a race, the comments section of these posts can be a place for that.

really, i'm just trying to keep this watchalong on tumblr (instead of, say, discord) so we can all participate, and this was my best idea for how we can all chat in one place if desired.

this seems like a lot to keep track of

only for me, sweet thing, don't you worry. every week will have a posted schedule, and i will also include the day's session links in the dyp every day. the dyp will also have the time that i plan to liveblog that day (on days i liveblog) if you want to join along.

links to the current week's schedule and the current day's dyp will be at the top of my pinned intro post for easy access, along with this info post. everything watchalong related will be tagged #dtmsummer.

if you are still lost and confused, ask, message, or comment. i'm friendly, i swear!

hope some of y'all join me on this journey! it's gonna be a fun time :D <3

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important tags:

#dtmsummer : everything dtm summer related!

#dtmsched : each week's schedule

#dyp : every day's dedicated yapping post

#dtmrecap : my 'summaries' for each quali and race

#dtmrec : my official one-session-to-watch for the weekend

[renndistanz]

in support of jupiter's beautiful wonderful dtm summer project i in my official capacity as deputy have made a horrid meme. join us in #experiencingdtmsummer if you are interested in:

whimsical lil austrian fella

dani juncadella's face and shenanigans on track

cars that bonk into each other and don't immediately die badly

cars that die badly in new and interesting ways

cars losing significant parts of their bodywork and/or more vital parts and continuing on like nooo i'm fineeee it's just a flesh wound i don't need it anyway

cars with Colors! pink! yellow! green! blue! red!

ten races' worth of esteban ocon in a car with bonking enabled. sure to be interesting

just kind of generally the best hits of f3 european championships 2014 drivers excluding max really. but rest assured max Will be brought up. you cannot escape him. he is everywhere

regulation fuckery in desperate attempts to avoid ending up with a multimanufacturer series with only like 2 manufacturers -> 1 season with only 2 manufacturers. oops -> change to fia group gt3 cars which means LOTS of manufacturers you can choose from to loathe and despise personally i would suggest lamborghini

a season of alex albon getting to be at the front of the field! win a race even! sometimes a good thing can happen to alex albon! only sometimes though

eventual appearance of jules gounon ready to not do math and fuck shit up

free on youtube full races free on youtube have i mentioned free on youtube :)

[hedge-the-forth]

Okay, first day of dtmsummer over. These are who I will be rooting for during the 2015 season and why:

1. Dani Juncadella - THE best Max teammate, funny, kind, and looks great in glasses ❤️‍🔥

2. Mattias Ekström - a swede in a redbull livery, don't know much about him yet. So far exciting on track and quite the showman off it 🇸🇪

3. Lucas Auer - tiny and polite 🤏

Nobody on the naughty list :)

[shifftypowers]

are there unwritten stuffed animal rules in dtm?

grace the cheetah, a smurf, i think a squirrel...? what going on here

and grace looks fluffy again!!

[perpetua-locomotion]

thoughts on race 2!! proof i have thoughts!

omg...... broken cars omg omg 😳

the debris.... flying everywhere.... like sprinkles...

of course it's the car that looks like a lemon that got injured

just striking me there is a person here named maximilian. this tickles me. normal person name.

LUGGI DOES NOT DESERVE A PENALTY HE HAS DONE NO WRONG EVER IN HIS LIFE

omg naked hoodless car omg omg omg 😳😳😳😳😳😳

ohmygodlookatthat youcanseethebones... the heart... the veins the pipes..... 😳😳😳😳

pff the way it went flying off

broken battered bruised but still running just not "efficiently" and limping back to the pits... perfect place for a car to be

i dont think entities named rocky should experience bad things

THAT WAS SO FUN IT SHOULD HAPPEN TO ALL BMWS EVER

dani on my screen 🩵

FUCK TOTO WOLFF JUMPSCARE

whitebull is so so pretty 🥹

HOW do the teams do those fast af stops

they sent luggi to the basement :((((

team orders 🤨🤨🤨

i am very hungry again jamie green's car looks delicious

lots of fightsss

my orange orange got a few bites taken out of him!! go luggi!!!!

wait!!! dani in the points!!!

these laps are so short!

show me luggi's pass man cmonnn

doints and loints!!! lots of fun!!!

okayyyy that's it :)

[cloverling14]

2017 round 2 race 1

quali 1 -

audio missing for a bit lol

lmao funky paffett stats, apparently he's won here every 4 years? 2005, 2009, 2013, and now it's 2017 -> plus its his 150th dtm start

rast take provision over luggi by 0.011 wowzers

LUGGI PROVISIONAL WITH 2 PURPLES

luggi is really so short compared to the other drivers man :'D

final positions: luggi, wickens, martin, paffett p9, edo p10, eki p13, and maro p14

race 1 -

still no verena interviews :(

oop someone got bumped down bc eki is now p12 and maro p13

green is now 18th after a technical problem, oof

everyone holds position at start! what a miracle!

wittman SENDS it on paffet my gods

duval under investigation O.o -> duval 5 sec pit stop pen bc of a jump start LMAO

green early pit at 47 min O.o

eki too at 46 min! -> and spengler

rocky, then farfus, everyone pitting early this time? -> wittman next

EKI WITH A DOUBLE OVERTAKE WITH LATE BRAKING BETWEEN FARFUS AND WITTMAN HOLY SHITE

a train of pit stoppers led by di resta lmao

DI RESTA LOCKS UP CLIPS TOMBLOM AND HE SPINS, TOMBLOM LAST -> di resta drive through penalty!

luggi pits from lead -> good stop, fastest at 7.2 :D

something wrong with maro, dropped to last without a pit yet? -> technical error, maro back in 3rd lol

GLOCK OFF THE ROAD, GETS PASSED BY A LOAD OF PEOPLE

muller with fastest pit so far, 6.9 :O

muller retirement O.o -> braking issue oof

green used the wrong tires during quali LMAO

LUGGI WINS YIPPEEEE

augh the happy boy on the podium :"))))

(jesus he went fast for the champagne lol)

ending: luggi!!!, wickens, rast (first podium!), paffet p6, edo p7, eki p8, and maro p9! all points :D

championship: luggi 68, paffett 34, rocky 31, green 27, glock 25

[musicandcoffeeandmax]

Getting whiplash of going from 2016 dtm to 2026 dtm, pink car you my only constant