DTM Drops Hated Performance-Balance System

FEW EXPECTED THE DTM TO DROP its controversial performance-weight system last week – at a crucial point of the season, with just two rounds remaining and drivers from all three manufacturers in the title hunt.

- Marcus Simmons

Perhaps this is a fine illustration of the persuasive powers of new-for-2017 DTM chairman Gerhard Berger. The series has long been mired in a democracy of organisation – fine for governments, not so for sport – but Berger, who has made no bones of his contempt for performance balancing, is renowned as a guy who gets things done and doesn’t mind going against accepted procedure.