DTM race seats are sought-after and rare. So, the grid for 2015 DTM season that will be kicked off in early May at Hockenheim will feature just three newcomers. One of the three DTM rookies is Tom Blomqvist, who is going to race the BMW M4 DTM #31, in this year’s season of the most popular international touring-car series.
Blomqvist? For the die-hard motor-racing enthusiast, this name is well-known. Tom’s father Stig Blomqvist is a Swedish rally legend and won the 1984 World Rally Championship. Over the course of his long career, he contested a total of 122 World Rally Championship rounds. His son, however, opted for another career: having celebrated some early successes in karting, Tom opted for switching to single-seater racing – and secured numerous wins in several Formula Renault championships, inter alia in New Zealand and New Zealand. In 2010, at the age of just 16 years, Tom won the British Formula Renault Championship. In 2011, in the German Formula 3 Cup, Blomqvist was lucky that things didn’t turn out even worse: in an accident during the seventh race meeting, at the Lausitzring, his third lumbar vertebra was injured and he had to make do with a longer break. Afterwards, he contested another three Formula 3 seasons: in 2012, Tom raced in both the Formula 3 Euro Series and the German Formula Cup to finish seventh in the European series and secure five race wins in the German cup. In 2013, he finished seventh in the FIA Formula 3 European Championship and in the following season, he attracted a lot of attention by winning six races and finishing runner-up in the championship, thus impressing the Team Principals in higher motor-racing categories.
So je was signed by BMW and will be teamed-up at BMW Team RBM with Augusto Farfus, a BMW DTM driver since the Bavarian’s made their comeback in the series. Team Principal Bart Mampaey looks forward to the things to come. “With Tom Blomqvist, we are joined by a young and fast driver who has got all it takes to also deliver in DTM,” he said.
Tom Blomqvist was born on 30th November, 1993, in Cambridge (GB). When he was six, his family moved to New Zealand. Blomqvist made his first steps on the motor-racing ladder with a Swedish license but in mid-2010, he replaced the Swedish by a British license and has been representing the UK, since then. In 2012 he was supported by McLaren – to contest the 2013 season as Red Bull Junior.
