The 2022 DTM schedule has been finalised after the Championship and Assen Circuit in The Netherlands failed to come to an agreement.
The event planned for Assen, listed as ‘TBA’ on the calendar for 3-5 June 2022, will not be replaced and so the caller will now include only eight race weekends rather than the previously planned nine.
Frederic Elsner, director event & operations of the DTM organisation ITR: “With the limitation of the calendar, we are, among others, following the desire from the teams to reconsider the slot in June and to run the 2022 season, like the previous one, on eight race weekends. With an additional event abroad in June, with at least one major motorsport event scheduled on every weekend anyway, the logistical effort would have been too big.”
DTM organisers ITR has also announcing the early termination of the contract the promoter of the races at the TT-Circuit Assen.
Promoter Lee van Dam: “After three years of hard work together with ITR, we have decided not to continue our contract for the near future. Assen is an event that is not being organised by the race track, but rather by us as an external promoter. Because of the increased costs for the event as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, we have tried to renegotiate our contract, but we haven’t found a solution that was acceptable to both sides and therefore we jointly agreed on how to proceed. We would like to thank everyone involved and the fans for their support and for three great years of DTM at Assen and we wish ITR all the best for the 2022 season.”
ITR’s managing director Benedikt Böhme commends the constructive negotiations with the organiser: “In extensive conversations, we have tried again and again to put the profitability into a proportion that would be acceptable for both parties. Eventually, we came to the joint decision to terminate the contract early. Here, I would like to thank Lee van Dam for the negotiations and for three very good events in Assen.”
