Is DTM an alternative to F1?
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DTM isn't really a stepping stone to anywhere unless a driver is in an Audi contract (as that could open a path to an LMP1 WEC drive). It is of no use to anyone wanting to get to F1 as it does not confer anything towards the points for the new FIA Super License requirements that are coming in to prevent any more children with rich backers buying them into seats. As such - DTM is an end point rather than a stepping stone as things currently stand - anywhere else that someone could drive would nominally be accessible without DTM exposure and indeed would nominally be on the path to it rather than from it.
DiscoColin said:
DTM isn't really a stepping stone to anywhere unless a driver is in an Audi contract (as that could open a path to an LMP1 WEC drive). It is of no use to anyone wanting to get to F1 as it does not confer anything towards the points for the new FIA Super License requirements that are coming in to prevent any more children with rich backers buying them into seats. As such - DTM is an end point rather than a stepping stone as things currently stand - anywhere else that someone could drive would nominally be accessible without DTM exposure and indeed would nominally be on the path to it rather than from it.
I think both posts sum it up. DTM will attract those drivers who don't have the funding to continue on the single seater ladder. It will also pave the way to WEC drives and also, for those young enough, to division 1 championships such as Carrera Cup. For that reason I predict we'll see more of the rising stars whose dream was F1, stepping off that path.It looks like Tom Blomqvist feels that DTM is a good place to be right now.
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