Two-time championship runner-up Nico Muller will be part of Team Rosberg’s all new line-up for the 2021 DTM season, which also features American racer Dev Gore.
The Swiss racer has been racing with the Abt Sportsline team since 2016, although he made his championship debut with Team Rosberg in 2014 and completed his first full season there in 2015.
Muller finished second in the championship standings to Team Rosberg’s Rene Rast in both 2019 and 2020, but with Rast prioritizing his Formula E commitments and Jamie Green retiring from the series at the end of 2020, the team has opted for an all-new line-up for the first season under GT3 regulations.
“I am very happy to return to Team Rosberg and be back in the DTM in 2021,” Muller said. “Going on a title hunt with an Audi R8 LMS at the start of the new era with adapted technical regulations motivates me a lot.”
Team Rosberg will field a pair of Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evos in the new series, with the second car set to by driven by 23-year-old Dev Gore.
Gore previously competed in the Euroformula Open and Toyota Racing Series and made his GT3 debut with Strakka Racing in the GT World Challenge Europe. He becomes only the second American driver in the series after Joey Hand.
“Behind us are exhausting weeks and months in which we have driven our realignment as a team,” said Kimmo Liimatainen, Managing Director of Team Rosberg.
“Now we can finally say that we are starting the upcoming season with the best conditions. With the Audi R8 LMS GT3, we rely on one of the most successful vehicles in the GT3 class and it is right and proper that we will continue to be connected to Audi Sport in customer sport after the incredible successes of recent years.
“When I was able to inform our team in the last few days that Nico Muller was returning to us, it was a very special moment and the joy was enormous. This underlines once again our ambitions to fight for the title with a strong team.”
