One of the most exciting race series ever must have been the DTM series from the mid 90s. The cars were incredibly high tech and almost anything went. Pictured above is the 1993 car at Goodwood taken by Richard Bets.
The 1993 season was dominated by Nicola Larini winning 11 of 22 races. Another driver on that season in Alfa Corse was Alessandro Nannini, who in 1990 had a helicopter accident which severed his fore arm and ended his F1 career which up to that point had been going well with 65 points from 4 years in F1 with Minardi and Benetton.
The 1996 version (which was the last season for Alfa in the DTM) had a 2.5 L 90° V6 engine delivering 490 PS (360 kW; 480 hp) at 11,900 rpm, had a top speed of around 300 kph (190 mph) and weighed 1,060 kg (2,300 lb) all versions however were equiped with the newly developed Q4 four-wheel drive system from the very start. An interesting thing about the layout is that the engine actually sat in front of the front axle line! Completely against normal practice of placing the engine as far back so to compensate they placed the gearbox towards where the back seat would be to compensate and improve the weight distribution.
Unfortunately after Alfa romeo and Opel withdrew from the DTM at the end of the 1996 season (by then called the ITC) the series came to an end.
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