You are correct a Great period of German Motor-Sport but a time that is very hard to get information about.
I have been researching the Gp 2 and Gp 5 DRM for many years and have been able to get quite a bit of information together. 3 trips to Germany has also helped!
The 2 Zakspeed Escorts always carried Shell and Castrol respectively, quite strange as you say. How times have changed!!!
If you look very carefully in the attached photo you will see a third Zakspeed Escort in the back ground this is E23/75 as the customer car in Toshiba livery.
The Red/Blue car you mention was a Privateer, known as the Ringhahssen Car.
Erich Zakowski was a great money maker and sold my parts away for Privateers, also built about 50 Gp 4 cars for local drivers. Much lesser specifications.
Ian Grey did drive my car at some stage I am quite sure of that and may have even owned it for a while. There is a school of thought that thinks he took the car back to WA and used it there a few times. I only have a few photos and no real evidence of this. The car in the photos may or may not be E23/75. I know of 2 cars that were built in Hong Kong/ Macau that were copies of E23/75, it may be that this is what Ian Grey took back to Australia.
Given the high profile the DRM enjoyed in Germany, it amazes me how hard it is to find information about it. Frank de Jong has race results and reviews on his excellent site: http://homepage.mac.com/frank_de_jong/Pages/DRM.html
Finding old race footage is extremely challenging. I'm not sure how much was televised.
Here is some quite interesting amateur footage from 1977. Nice to hear the sound of the cars, they really scream:
Here is some more footage from 1977, plus later years of DRM:
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