Reigning Blancpain Sprint Series champion Maximilian? ?Götz? (28, Germany) will beef up the squad of Mercedes-Benz drivers in the DTM for the 2015 season. Götz will swap the race gullwing for the Mercedes-AMG C63 ?DTM? after four successful years in AMG’s Customer Sports programme.
The 28-year-old already has some previous experience of a DTM car. He was given a try-out in a DTM Mercedes AMG C-Class at the Lausitzring back in September 2013 as a reward for his success with the SLS AMG GT3. He made his debut in the Mercedes-AMG C63 DTM during testing in Jerez de la Frontera last December, 2014.
Götz contested 82 races in a race gullwing during the years 2011 to 2014, securing ten wins, 32 podiums and 60 top-ten finishes in all. He clinched the 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series championship title in the SLS AMG GT3. The previous year, 2013, Götz won the 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps and the 1,000 km race at the Nürburgring. He won the ADAC GT Masters championship in 2012. ?