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december 06, 2016 - BMW Motorsport

Strong line-up across all disciplines: BMW reorganises areas of operation for teams.

Munich. BMW Motorsport is changing the way its teams are set up for the 2017 season, to match both the strategic reorganisation of its involvement and the individual requirements of each race series.

The four BMW teams, RMG, RBM, MTEK and Schnitzer will continue to compete, but with some new areas of operation. The BMW customer #racing programme will continue as in 2016, working closely together with the Schubert Motorsport and ROWE #racing teams.

BMW Team RMG and BMW Team RBM will continue to battle for points and wins in the DTM. Both teams have been competing in this series since the brand’s comeback in 2012 - with great success. The RMG team, headed by team principal #stefanreinhold (DE), claimed the team championship in 2014 and has celebrated two drivers’ titles with #marcowittmann (DE) – in 2014 and 2016.

BMW Team RBM was the second-best BMW team in the past DTM season, finishing just behind RMG in third place overall. In 2013, Bart Mampaey (BE) and his crew were challenging for the title and claimed second place in the team championship. RMG and RBM will be competing with the BMW M4 DTMs in the 2017 DTM season. The drivers will be announced on 9th December at the BMW Motorsport Season Review event in Munich (DE).

New areas of operation for Schnitzer and MTEK are planned.

BMW Team Schnitzer will return to GT #racing in 2017. Charly Lamm (DE) and his crew competed in 66 DTM races from 2012 to 2016, and celebrated the greatest success of their second appearance in this series in the very first year. Bruno Spengler (CA) won the drivers’ title in the BMW Bank M3 DTM and the crew from Freilassing in Upper Bavaria (DE) also claimed the team championship. BMW Team Schnitzer wants to continue this long-running success story with BMW in GT #racing. The team has already recorded five wins at the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring (DE). Lamm and his team last triumphed there in 2010, with the BMW M3 GT.

In 2017, BMW Team MTEK is supposed to start intensive preparations for BMW’s entry into the #fiaworldendurancechampionship (WEC) in the following year. Ernest Knoors (NL) and his team provided plenty of highlights when they competed in the DTM between 2013 and 2016, including the first DTM win for Timo Glock (DE) in the last race of the 2013 season. Last season, the crew from Garching (DE) won the “Best Pit Stop Award” for the fastest pit stops of any team. Plans for next year foresee that BMW Team MTEK will complete a comprehensive test and development programme in preparation for the WEC entry of BMW.