German Motorsport Association
The German Motorsport Association e. V. (DMV) is a sports association for automobile and motorcycle sports based in Frankfurt am Main . The DMV was founded in Halle (Saale) in 1923 . Together with the ADAC and the AvD, it is the sponsor of the German Motor Sport Association .
Together with its more than 400 clubs, the DMV offers motor sportspeople in many disciplines the necessary conditions and structures to practice their sport. As a non-profit association, the DMV places particular emphasis on promoting young talent and mass sports .
Events
The German Motorsport Association organizes up to 700 national and international motorsport events in Germany every year. The spectrum ranges from world and European championships to German championships to historical sport and touring for motorcycles and automobiles.
In addition to classic automobile circuit races (e.g. DMV GT & Touring Car Cup - GTC, DMV BMW Challenge ) and motorcycle road racing (e.g. DMV Rundstrecken Championship - DRC), the DMV offers motorsport enthusiasts in almost all disciplines the necessary Requirements and structures for practicing their sport. These include more than 20 types of motorsport, including kart racing , automobile slalom , hill climb , motocross , quad , trial , supermoto , rail sports , ice speedway , enduro , motorcycle biathlon and touring .
Promotion of young talent
The self-governing youth organization, the Motorsport Youth (MSJ) in the DMV, which is also a member of the German Sports Youth , the youth organization of the German Olympic Sports Confederation , makes an important contribution . Through training and funding, it is intended to enable young and talented motor sports enthusiasts to measure themselves in sporting competition and to assert themselves in an international comparison with corresponding performances.
Well-known athletes who completed this DMV program are the (former) Formula 1 drivers Sebastian Vettel , Michael Schumacher , Timo Glock and Heinz-Harald Frentzen , or - in the two-wheeler sector - the former Moto2 world champion Stefan Bradl .