R-Motorsport-team Manager Florian Kamelger, who announced last January after just one season with the Aston-Martin-exit from the DTM of DTM Boss Gerhard Berger have been treated unfairly.

"Our one-year DTM commitment of the last season, described as a 'beauty error', as it is the ITR-chief did recently, is certainly not an expression of appreciation of our commitment to the series," shoots Kamelger in an interview with the 'Stuttgarter Nachrichten" against the Austrians.

Especially since you've helped the DTM umbrella organisation ITR is actually by be entered in accordance with the Mercedes-From the end of 2018, a year earlier than planned.

Kamelger feels by Audi-exit

Berger confirmed had accused the Swiss Aston Martin licensee, to him in view of the withdrawal not forewarned, and described the importance of the Aston-Martin-loss for the DTM as compared to the 'Tiroler Tageszeitung' merely as a "beauty error". Because: "to be Honest, Aston Martin could not fight for the Podium."

Now Kamelger from get counter-strike: The South Tyrolean feel through the Audi-exit with season confirmed the end of 2020, noting that the tradition of the series offer no perspective for the future.

"If the sport does not appear Department of a large company such as Audi is possible to justify a DTM participation in the group and to the Public in a credible, so you can easily understand that it is for R-motorsports without a major manufacturer in the back or an effective support provided by the ITR, and whose Partner is almost impossible, a DTM program," says the South Tyrol to the 'Stuttgarter Nachrichten'.

a legal dispute with HWA is not yet

The Audi's decision showed "how fragile the manufacturer's factory commitment-based DTM System is". R-Motorsport was not able to compete as a medium-sized company with an annual budget of 20 million euros for the year, against a Player like Audi was the commitment of over 80 million euros in costs.

"Even if our DTM program was well financed, was the Budget not with the competing manufacturers are comparable, which is a priori at a competitive disadvantage," says Kamelger, whose company was in the DTM again and again with the accusation to be confronted, to have the bills paid. This was denied always, however, Ex-Partner HWA compensation calls. And the case is according to the information of 'motorsport-total.com' not beige.

Kamelger: R-Motorsport as a chilling example of this

Kamelger now expects that the example of the R-Motorsport will ensure that other private teams in the DTM out of the way. "The financing of the DTM project is for each participant not easy and it will not be to the Coronavirus-crisis," says the South Tyrol.

"Our example of how a medium-sized racing companies like R motorsports competition, is not with the resources available and is likely to keep private teams in the future, to the hard manufacturer competition in the DTM." Therefore, he sees the "continued existence of the DTM massively at risk."

Apart from the high cost of the series lacked a "viable Vision for the future development", criticized Kamelger. "Where do we go? As the series of the challenges for the future such as electrification and other forms of energy such as synthetic fuel and hydrogen? We have seen a concept in the Form of a video" that he plays on Berger's electro-vision for 2025. "On the practical feasibility should have been but work hard."

Why the R-Motorsport

The exit is dropped out had not been intended, in spite of the separation of HWA in November. "However, the threat of litigation with our former Partner HWA and the uncertainty about the whereabouts of competitors beyond 2020 meant that a continuation would be connected to our involvement with too many uncertainties." This would have been "in the end, entrepreneurial risk", he explains the Background of the phase.

According to the information of 'Motorsport-Total.com' pursued R-Motorsport is actually the Plan, with the mission team, JOTA Sport, BMW engines, and a Multimatic-built cars in 2020 in the DTM return. The US designer has, however, a good wire to HWA, since it implements, together with the Ex-Partner of R-Motorsport, the entire HWA-customer sports program in North America. The Deal failed and the Swiss were for 2020 without a car.

R-Motorsport moves operations to 2021

How to do it now with R-Motorsport more? A good question, because after they had announced at the beginning of 2020 is the largest Motorsports operation in the own history, stopped after the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic of this project. You've taken the "strategic decision to concentrate our resources on the planning of our engagement 2021," it said in a Statement by Kamelger on the R-Motorsport Website.

"It is currently not foreseeable when and if at all motorsports will take place in whatever Form this year," said the team boss. Since the health of the employees "have in each case a top priority", will meet "only then can decisions regarding of part of the race" took, "if we are absolutely sure that we can answer". The proposed GT-Masters-entry was not confirmed until today.

This article was written by Sven Haidinger

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Date Of Update: 23 June 2020, 02:26