{"id":4603,"date":"2016-09-16T14:07:45","date_gmt":"2016-09-16T12:07:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/?p=4603"},"modified":"2016-09-16T14:07:45","modified_gmt":"2016-09-16T12:07:45","slug":"felix-rosenqvist-to-complete-remainder-of-2016-dtm-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/felix-rosenqvist-to-complete-remainder-of-2016-dtm-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Felix Rosenqvist to complete remainder of 2016 DTM season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Felix-Rosenqvist-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-4601\" alt=\"felix-rosenqvist-1\" src=\"https:\/\/b106543.web05.cust.bluerange.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Felix-Rosenqvist-1-1024x682.jpg\" width=\"785\" height=\"522\" srcset=\"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Felix-Rosenqvist-1-1024x682.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Felix-Rosenqvist-1-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/felixracing.se\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/09\/Felix-Rosenqvist-1-1024x682-561x374.jpg 561w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 785px) 100vw, 785px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Felix Rosenqvist will complete the rest of the 2016 DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) campaign with Mercedes-AMG DTM.<\/p>\n<p>Rosenqvist has contested the last two rounds (four races) of the German touring car series at Moscow Raceway (RUS) and the N\u00fcrburgring (GER) respectively, scoring a point on his debut, and will now retain his race seat throughout the rest of the season.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cFelix has shown a very strong performance in the last four races and even exceeded our expectations,\u201d <strong>says Ulrich Fritz, Head of Mercedes-AMG DTM<\/strong>. \u201cTherefore, we decided to also let him compete in the remaining DTM races this season. He has definitely earned it!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The DTM calendar includes two further rounds, with a visit to Hungary\u2019s Hungaroring coming up next weekend (September 23-25) and the traditional finale at Hockenheim (GER) waiting in the wings on October 14-16.<\/p>\n<p><em> \u201cI\u2019m pleased with today\u2019s confirmation of my continued DTM race programme,\u201d <strong>says Felix Rosenqvist<\/strong>. \u201cMy first two weekends in the championship have been promising and I look forward to building on that in Budapest and Hockenheim. They are two tracks I enjoy, and I know from my past in F3 that the Hockenheim finale is a huge event. It will be particularly thrilling to be a part of that as a Mercedes-AMG DTM driver.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Rosenqvist\u2019s extended DTM commitments mean the Swede &#8211; who has blazed through a packed programme in 2016 &#8211; will now face another busy period of racing over the coming month. Following his DTM appearance in Budapest next weekend, the 24-year-old will head straight to Barcelona (ESP) for the final round of the Blancpain GT Series Sprint Cup, before venturing out to the Far East for the 2016-17 Formula E opener in Hong Kong on October 9, and then back to Europe for the Hockenheim DTM extravaganza a week later.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Felix Rosenqvist will complete the rest of the 2016 DTM (Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters) campaign with Mercedes-AMG DTM. Rosenqvist has contested the last two rounds (four races) of the German touring car series at Moscow Raceway (RUS) and the N\u00fcrburgring (GER) respectively, scoring a point on his debut, and will now retain his race seat throughout [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4601,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news3","category-press-releases","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"aioseo_notices":[],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4604,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4603\/revisions\/4604"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/felixracing.se\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}