team owner Jackie Stewart promised to find funding from Scottish sponsors.. Jackie Stewart became his informal coach, teaching him how to race faster and more consistently. Franchitti finished fourth overall in the 1992 Formula Vauxhall Lotus Championship, with multiple second and third-place finishes for PSR. He won the £20,000 Autosport BRDC Award late that year, which included a test in a McLaren MP4/10B F1 car at Jerez at the end of 1995. Franchitti became a racing school instructor the following year and earned money running circuit days for BMW and Nissan. He returned to the Formula Vauxhall Lotus Championship for PSR in a single seater Vauxhall-powered car, winning the championship at Brands Hatch in August of that year with three races remaining. Franchitti had six victories, four podium finishes and was named the series' Driver of the Year. He raced in the Silverstone round of the British Formula Three Championship that same year, finishing fifth in a PSR Reynard 933-Mugen Honda. Stewart promoted Franchitti to the British F3 Championship in 1994, hoping that he would progress to Formula One (F1) in the future, and he was expected to challenge for the title. He finished fourth overall with 133 points in a PSR Dallara F394-Mugen Honda, a single victory at Silverstone, and six top-three finishes after errors prevented him from challenging for the title, after errors prevented him from challenging for the title. Franchitti also finished 12th at the 1994 Masters of Formula 3 at Circuit Zandvoort and sixth at the 1994 Macau Grand Prix. Touring car career He did not have enough money to progress to Formula 3000 and did not do another season in F3 as expected because he did not want to incur more debt. Mercedes-Benz signed him just before a deadline to their junior team in their attempt to recreate their Young Driver Programme in the German-based Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft (DTM) and the related International Touring Car Championship (ITC) touring car series after their first option Giancarlo Fisichella wanted a one-year deal to retain the option of driving for Minardi in F1. He drove a Mercedes C-Class V6 equipped with an anti-lock braking system and traction control as part of the AMG-Mercedes team, Mercedes-Benz's sports car competition division. Franchitti competed in the 1995 DTM and the 1995 ITC. His 14-race DTM season put him fifth in the Drivers' Championship with two pole positions, four podium finishes and