2000 Alternate DTM season

The 2000 Alternate DTM season was the first of KL-Racer's Alternate DTM. The series involved 7 manufacturers - Lancia, Jaguar, Audi, BMW, Opel, Hyundai and Mercedes.

Teams and Drivers

Manufacturer	Chassis	Team	#	Drivers	Rounds
Mercedes	Mercedes CLK DTM	Zakspeed	1	Bernd Schneider	All
			2	Mattias Ekström	All
		Warsteiner AMG Mercedes	16	Klaus Ludwig	All
			17	Raul Boesel	All
Jaguar	Jaguar S-Type DTM	BJ Racing	3	James Thompson	All
			4	Uwe Alzen	All
		/ Restov Racing	18	Eric Comas	All
			19	Alain Menu	All
		? Liqui Target Jaguar	30	Darren Turner	All
			31	Pedro Lamy	All
Lancia	Lancia Kappa DTM	Fischkopf Motorsport	5	Gabriele Tarquini	1-6
			6	Joachim Winkelhock	1-6
		The Fighting Mongooses	20	Nicola Larini	1-6
				Gabriele Tarquini	7-10
			21	Peter Dumbreck	All
		Sørensen Motorsport	26	John Nielsen	All
			27	Stefano Modena	All
Audi	Audi TT DTM	Belgian VW/Audi Club	7	Yvan Muller	All
			8	Jean-François Hemroulle	All
		JLD Motorsport	22	Christian Abt	All
			23	Paul Radisich	All
BMW	BMW M3 E36 DTM	D2-Kabel Racing	9	Jörg Müller	All
			10	Johnny Cecetto	All
Opel	Opel Vectra DTM	Dominic Racing Team	11	Laurent Aiello	All
			12	Timo Scheider	All
Hyundai	Hyundai Sonatra DTM	Lamb Motorsports	14	Olivier Beretta	All
			15	Esteban Tuero	All
		DSR Racing	24	Tom Kristensen	All
			25	Henry Lee Junior	All
		Brandrill Motorsport	28	Narain Karthikeyan	All
			29	Vincenzo Sospiri	All

Driver Standings

Pos	Driver	HOC	DON	IMO	MON	SEP	NUR	LAU	NOR	OSC	SAC	Points
1	Timo Scheider	Ret	2	20	Ret	2	13	Ret	Ret	2	1	28
2	Narain Karthikeyan	2	1	9	4	4	Ret	3	11	15	5	28
3	Uwe Alzen	11	4	6	1	18	Ret	1	12	10	Ret	24
4	Laurent Aiello	1	3	2	Ret	8	7	7	22	14	Ret	20
5	James Thompson	3	21	Ret	Ret	22	Ret	5	9	4	2	15
6	Bernd Schneider	Ret	24	25	Ret	13	14	Ret	4	1	11	13
7	Vincenzo Sospiri	6	13	1	5	Ret	8	19	10	21	15	13
8	Gabriele Tarquini	12	18	13	Ret	5	1	Ret	18	Ret	Ret	12
9	Christian Abt	16	23	18	8	7	2	23	3	5	19	12
10	Jean-Francois Hemroulle	Ret	10	16	6	1	Ret	14	9	23	22	11
11	Olivier Beretta	9	15	12	7	6	Ret	2	7	3	7	11
12	Henry Lee Jr.	10	14	3	3	Ret	4	11	Ret	Ret	14	11
13	Jorg Muller	14	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	18	15	1	11	9	10
14	Eric Comas	Ret	17	19	Ret	23	3	22	2	Ret	Ret	10
15	Yvan Muller	15	20	21	2	Ret	6	8	6	6	12	9
16	Stefano Modena	5	11	7	Ret	3	Ret	6	5	8	13	9
17	Alain Menu	19	7	4	16	17	16	10	16	7	3	7
18	Joachim Winkelhock	4	6	11	11	14	11					4
19	Johnny Cecetto	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	Ret	15	9	Ret	Ret	4	3
20	Darren Turner	Ret	Ret	10	Ret	11	12	4	21	20	17	3
21	Esteban Tuero	8	19	26	12	20	5	16	17	17	16	2
22	John Nielsen	17	9	5	10	10	10	12	20	9	18	2
23	Peter Dumbreck	23	5	14	14	Ret	9	17	25	Ret	10	2
24	Klaus Ludwig	21	22	Ret	Ret	21	Ret	13	19	12	6	1

The kostasgate scandal

It all started when the race results were unrealistic, and the lancia boss complained about Nicola Larini not getting any points. They eventually declared to quite DTM at the end of 2000. As a result, Fischkopf motorsports protested against lancia, by not allowing any of their staff near their cars, and after a swift ban from Lancia in round 7, I decided to ban Fischkopf for the remainder of 2000, but they were able to return on the condition that they can find a new car supplier.

Afterwards, the Jaguar's boss convinced me to be nicer, I went to work trying to figure out the problems.

As a consequence, the stats were then recalculated according to the driver's original salary split into thirds and then using the ferrarist's indycar formula and the race distances were shortened to 150KM. But neither of these issues was the real problem. Instead, it's was a rather simple looking pre-race method that I forgot to do, sorting out the group according to the qualifying results.

Eventually, everything got fixed in time for rounds 9 of the season. but before the final round of the season was run, kostas declared Brandrill to be a mortal enemy of Lancia, and when the final round came, he got his wish. Timo Scheider won the race, and 10 points and karthikeyan did managed to finish the two points to force a tiebreak for the driver's championship. In the end, Timo did won the tie break for 2nd place finishes, with Timo finishing 2nd 3 times versus karthikeyan's 1. Furthermore, Brandrill missed out on the team's title by 7 points

The aftermath of this scandal was changing the points system from the pre-2003 F1 system to the 2003-2009 F1 system for 2001. In addition, extending the prize money to the top 10 finishers according to the current F1 system for the 2001 season was also implemented. But the most important thing to came out of this was that The Fighting Mongooses withdrew from DTM and replacing them was a brand new team Kissling Motorsport run by the former commish, Ferrarist for the 2001 season.