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<body> <Table Width="550" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" cellpadding="0"><TR><TD Width="35"><IMG SRC="//www.totalmotorsport.com/images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="35" HEIGHT="1"></td><td> <CENTER><Table border="0" width="100%"> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="5">DTM</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">04/04/2001</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Michael Bartels</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Fifth Opel V8</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><img border="1" src="Storage/telsFiftDTM.jpg"></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="1">  </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2"> Michael Bartels will drive a fifth 2001-spec Opel Astra V8 Coupé in the DTM, it was announced yesterday.<BR> <BR> The Opel line-up is as follows:<BR> <BR> Opel Team Holzer: Joachim Winkelhock, Timo Scheider and Michael Bartels.<BR> <BR> Opel Team Phoenix: Manuel Reuter and Yves Olivier.<BR> <BR> Opel Euroteam: Alain Menu and Hubert Haupt. <BR> <BR> Peter Mamerow drives a year-old, privateer Astra V8 Coupé. <BR> <BR> Bartels, Menu, Reuter, Scheider and Winkelhock will drive the five 2001-spec Opel Astra V8 Coupés.<BR> <BR> “We’re happy to have Michael Bartels driving for us again,” Opel motorsport boss Volker Strycek explained. “Michael has always been a frontrunner, as can be told from his twelve top-ten finishes last year.”<BR> <BR> “The DTM is the best touring car series there is, and the Opel Coupé is a racing car which I love to drive, so I am happy to be part of the Opel family again,” Bartels said. </FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE><BR> </CENTER> <BR><CENTER><font size="1" color="#808080" face="Tahoma">Copyright ©2000-©2023 TotalMotorSport</font></CENTER> </td> </tr> </table> </body>