DTM – the magical three letters stood for ‘Deutsche Tourenwagen-Meisterschaft’ (German Touring Car Championship) in former times. Today they are the trademark of Europe’s most popular touring car race series, which began in 1984 with production based cars and peaked in 1996 with a worldwide series for high-tech touring cars. After a three year break, the DTM celebrated a successful comeback in the year 2000 with a ground breaking concept. Today it is considered as the ‘Top Class’ of touring cars and is one of Europe’s largest sporting events.The EuroSpeedway (Lausitzring) is one of the DTM circuits and is located in Brandenburg’s Lower Lausitz region