New Champions Take Off in DTM 2026: Lightning-Quick Dominance Brewing!
Which teams, cars and drivers will compete in the 2026 DTM season? Our overview keeps you up to date with all confirmed entries so far
Motorsport photo The 2026 DTM grid is gradually taking shape. Official registration for the championship ran until February 2026, after the early-entry deadline ended in January. The season will begin at the end of April with the opening round in Spielberg, Austria, and will once again feature eight race weekends, each with two races.
More than 20 GT3 cars are expected to take part. Here, we run through all the teams that have been confirmed for the 2026 DTM season. Importantly, this is not the final entry list and does not include all registered cars.
It only lists the entries that have been officially announced by the teams themselves. Mercedes-AMG Team Winward Cars: 2× Mercedes-AMG GT3 Drivers: Maro Engel (GER), Jules Gounon (AND) The former HTP-Winward team is a well-established name in GT3 racing. Founded in 2013, it won the 24 Hours of Spa in its first year with the Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 and captured the Blancpain Sprint Series title a year later.
After a season with Bentley, the team returned to Mercedes-AMG in 2016. In 2019, HTP was acquired by the US-based Winward team led by Texan businessman Bryce Ward and his son Russell Ward, both racing drivers. The team entered the DTM in 2021 and finished runner-up in 2022 with Lucas Auer .
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