Four drivers to fight for GT4 test in 2025 DTM Esports finale

The DTM Esports Championship 2025 is set to be the most open in history as four RaceRoom drivers take to the Hockenheimring for the last race of the season, separated by just 24 points. 

Traditionally, the series has only had head-to-head battles in the final – boasting previous champions such as Moritz Lohner, Kevin Siggy (now an Esports World Cup champion too) and Tim Jarschel, who’s in contention again this year. Isaac Price is leading the way this year, though, despite being in a huge minority of the field driving the McLaren this season and dropping quite a lot of points at the Sachsenring round as a result. 

Alongside Jarschel, Falken Simracing has more representation in the final four from Lucas Muller, whose efforts late in the final race at the Red Bull Ring reduced his deficit to just seven points. In the middle of the two Falken drivers is Dorr Esports’ Florian Haase, trailing by 18. 

Story of the season so far

With the benefit of hindsight, it’s easy to suggest that Price set the tone for the season right from round one, at Zandvoort. He came home second in race one after challenging Phillip Drayss for victory, before winning the second race by six seconds. 

But he has had challenges this season – one round on from getting two pole positions at the Norisring, he qualified 17^th in the first race at the Nurburgring and would only gain one place; however, it would be worse for Tim Jarschel, who missed the second race completely. But the big losses for Price were suffered in the next round at the Sachsenring. 

He extracted all he could out of the car in Qualifying to go ninth and then made a great start, using his racecraft where car speed was lacking. In the second race, he also used pit strategy to his advantage and finished fifth. Hardly his best results of the season, but a champion’s performance to reduce the losses on a day that was never going to be in his favour. 

Jarschel would take his third and fourth wins of the season that day, which was the story of his season – plenty of wins, but perhaps too much inconsistency. Muller and Haase’s seasons were also distilled into two races that day, both finishing inside the top five in both races, but winning neither, and especially in Muller’s case, it might come back to bite him. 

The Finale

Hockenheim is the venue for the final rounds, perhaps most comparable in layout to the Nurburgring in mid-April. Its long straight through the Parabolika down to the Hairpin at turn six is the only real feature where straight-line speed is necessary, and is also the best overtaking chance on the lap. 

But it has some very technical sections too, the stadium section at the end of the lap requires slow-speed agility, much like the Mercedes arena at the Nurburgring, and the cars will need to ride kerbs well at turn one. Looking at the form guide, you’d have to say Muller has a decent shot at overturning his seven-point deficit. 

He showed huge fight in the previous round in Austria to keep that points gap, and if the Porsche runs as well here, he could beat Issac Price in both races. However, the British driver has also shown that even if he doesn’t have the best car, he can extract the absolute maximum from a race result, and so it’s likely to be fought out hard between the two of them. 

Who will come out on top and win the coveted GT4 test promised to the race winner? Time will tell, over 50 crucial minutes of racing. 

The action can be watched live on both RaceRoom‘s and the DTM’s YouTube channels – 18th July, 19:10 CEST.