{"id":4854,"date":"2010-04-29T19:22:28","date_gmt":"2010-04-29T23:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4854"},"modified":"2010-04-29T19:22:28","modified_gmt":"2010-04-29T23:22:28","slug":"bmw-announces-intention-to-contest-2012-dtm-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/f1-general\/bmw-announces-intention-to-contest-2012-dtm-season\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW announces intention to contest 2012 DTM season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BMW will turn its premier motor racing focus to Germany&#8217;s touring car championship DTM in 2012.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>After ten years in formula one, the German carmaker ended its grand prix foray at the end of 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement on Thursday, BMW said its board has voted to race in DTM from 2012, pending &#8220;certain basic requirements&#8221; that the series&#8217; governing body ITR must now consider.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The (ITR&#8217;s) final decision is expected during the year,&#8221; said the marque, whose motor sport activities are still led by former BMW-Sauber team principal Mario Theissen.<\/p>\n<p>Said BMW board member Dr Klaus Draeger: &#8220;We see it as a consistent step to return to our roots after bidding farewell to formula one, and to expand our commitment to this discipline.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW will turn its premier motor racing focus to Germany&#8217;s touring car championship DTM in 2012.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[53],"tags":[69,1458,409],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4854"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4855,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4854\/revisions\/4855"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}