How a privateer Ford Mustang made DTM history

“The Mustang destroyed my hearing,” says Gerd Ruch, as he asks people to speak louder. And yet the Berlin-based heating engineer and amateur racer still looks back with great passion on the years between 1988 and 1994, when he and his brother Jurgen Ruch turned the Ford Mustang with its legendary sound and flames shooting from the rear into a cult icon in the DTM. “That was the best era ...