2009 Mercedes-Benz C-Class AMG DTM

With 66 wins secured in the 127 races it contested up to and including the 2008 season (1994/1995 and since 2004 in DTM as well as in the DTM successor ITC, International Touring Car Championship, in 1996), the C-Class is the most successful car to ever have raced in the meanwhile 25-year-old history of the DTM. More than 45 percent of the 146 race wins Mercedes-Benz could celebrate in the 311 races contested have been secured by the C-Class which, since 1994, has been entered in the totally three generations built. 30 wins were clinched with the CLK (from 2000 to 2003) and 50 with the 190 (1988 to 1993). From 1997 to 1999, DTM and ITC respectively weren’t held.

First design meeting at HWA: May 2008
Car concept: June 2008 Car specification first issue: June 2008
Fixing of car dimensions: June 2008
Initial CAD work started: July 2008
Wind tunnel work commenced: July 2008
Engine tests: September 2008
Chassis manufacturing began: November 2008
First chassis completed: December 2008
First car build started: Mid December 2008
First car completed: 21st January 2009
First track test of the new C-Class at Estoril, Portugal: 24th – 26th January 2009

Story by Daimler

Motorsports / DTM: german touring cars championship 2009, presentation in Duesseldorf, Paul di Resta (SCO, Mercedes), *** Local Caption *** +++ www.hoch-zwei.net +++ copyright: HOCH ZWEI / Thomas Suer +++

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