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 |
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Mercedes | Mercedes CLK DTM | Zakspeed | 1 | Bernd Schneider | 1- |
2 | Mattias Ekström | 1- | |||
Warsteiner AMG Mercedes | 16 | Klaus Ludwig | 1- | ||
17 | Raul Boesel | 1- | |||
Jaguar | Jaguar S-Type DTM | BJ Racing | 3 | James Thompson | 1- |
4 | Uwe Alzen | 1- | |||
/ Restov Racing | 18 | Eric Comas | 1- | ||
19 | Alain Menu | 1- | |||
? Liqui Target Jaguar | 30 | Darren Turner | 1- | ||
31 | Pedro Lamy | 1- | |||
Lancia | Lancia Kappa DTM | Fischkopf Motorsport | 5 | Gabriele Tarquini | 1- |
6 | Joachim Winkelhock | 1- | |||
The Fighting Mongooses | 20 | Nicola Larini | 1- | ||
21 | Peter Dumbreck | 1- | |||
Sørensen Motorsport | 26 | John Nielsen | 1- | ||
27 | Stefano Modena | 1- | |||
Audi | Audi TT DTM | Belgian VW/Audi Club | 7 | Yvan Muller | 1- |
8 | Jean-François Hemroulle | 1- | |||
JLD Motorsport | 22 | Christian Abt | 1- | ||
23 | Paul Radisich | 1- | |||
BMW | BMW M3 E36 DTM | D2-Kabel Racing | 9 | Jörg Müller | 1- |
10 | Johnny Cecetto | 1- | |||
Opel | Opel Vectra DTM | Dominic Racing Team | 11 | Laurent Aiello | 1- |
12 | Timo Scheider | 1- | |||
Hyundai | Hyundai Sonatra DTM | Lamb Motorsports | 14 | Olivier Beretta | 1- |
15 | Esteban Tuero | 1- | |||
DSR Racing | 24 | Tom Kristensen | 1- | ||
25 | Henry Lee Junior | 1- | |||
Brandrill Motorsport | 28 | Narain Karthikeyan | 1- | ||
29 | Vincenzo Sospiri | 1- |
2000 Final Drivers standings: Timo Scheider 28 pts Narain Karthikeyan 28 pts Uwe Alzen 24 pts Laurent Aiello 20 pts James Thompson 15 pts Vincenzo Sospiri 13 pts Bernd Schneider 13 pts Garbiele Tarquini 12 pts Christian Abt 12 pts Jean-Francois Hemroulle 11 pts Henry Lee Jr. 11 pts Olivier Beretta 11 pts Jorg Muller 10 pts Eric Comas 10 pts Stefano Modena 9 pts Yvan Muller 9 pts Alain Menu 7 pts Joachim Winkelhock 4 pts Johnny Cecetto 3 pts Darren Turner 3 pts Peter Dumbreck 2 pts John Nielsen 2 pts Esteban Tuero 2 pts Klaus Ludwig 1 pt
2000 Final Teams standings: Dominic racing team 48 pts Brandrill Motorsport 41 pts BJ Racing 39 pts Belgian VW/Audi Club 20 pts Restov Racing 17 pts Fischkopf Motorsports 16 pts Zakspeed 13 pts D2-Kabel Racing 13 pts Lamb Motorsports 13 pts JLD Motorsports 12 pts DSR Racing 11 pts Sorensen Motorsport 11 pts Liqui Target 3 pts The fighting Mongooses 2 pts Warsteiner AMG 1 pt
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.