Official! DTM-champion Wehrlein will drive for Manor F1

Posted on 10-02-2016 at 13:43 by MauritsH – 16 Comments”

The Mercedes-protégé fills one of the two empty Manor-chairs in the coming year.

It seems a little early still for the 21-year-old DTM champion already to bomb to the hard podiumklant including the associated bottles champeezy, but for now it is Werhlein ample means. The German with roots in Mauritius (ge-wel-dig island) will be at the first official test day (22 February) was already behind the wheel of the splintertjenieuwe Manor Racing MRT05 and he also meets the rest of the season for the small-renstal.

Not entirely surprisingly, played Mercedes motorsportbaas Toto Wolff an important role in the development of the deal. We expect the young driver, within a short time behind the wheel of one of the two Silberpfeile, probably at the expense of Nico Rosberg. Can ‘ie at Manor beautiful a little getting used to racing at the highest level.

As said wrote Wehrlein last season in the DTM championship to his name. Previously it was the driver, of course, active in the karts, the ADAC Formula Masters (now Formula 4) and the Formula 3 Euro Series. In addition, he tested for Mercedes and Force India in the Formula 1.

Incidentally, is Manor is not certain worse of the deal. In addition to the fact that there is undoubtedly a German bag with euro’s their side on is gone, they may also make use of the wind tunnel of Mercedes. There can scale models up to 50% of the actual size to be tested, according to Autosport.