HWA AG

HWA AG
legal form	Corporation
ISIN	DE000A0LR4P1
founding	1998
Seat	Affalterbach , Germany
management	Ulrich Fritz CEO Hans Werner Aufrecht , Chairman of the Supervisory Board
Number of employees	297
sales	101.2 million euros (2018)
Branch	Automobile manufacturer
Website	www.hwaag.com
As of December 31, 2018

The HWA AG is an established in 1998 automakers, the racing activities for the Daimler AG operates and operates development and production of vehicles and components for automotive manufacturers in the premium segment. The company emerged from the motorsport department of AMG, which had existed since 1967 (since 2005 Mercedes-AMG ).

history

In 1999, 51% of AMG was taken over by DaimlerChrysler AG. At the same time, the motorsport department was spun off from Mercedes-AMG and re-established as HWA GmbH. Hans Werner Aufrecht , the founder of the team, named it after his name.

For use in the 24-hour race at Le Mans in 1999 , the CLK was further developed by HWA into the CLR , without having to be based on a road car as the LM-GTP (the appearance was nevertheless adapted to the CL). Due to the extreme design of the chassis and aerodynamics, there were three serious accidents in training and, despite aerodynamic adjustments, in warm-up and in the race. At high speed, the vehicles got under-air on bumps, took off and rolled over. After the third accident, the last remaining CLR was immediately taken out of the race and later sold to a private collector.

DTM

For the year 2000, the DTM could be revived together with Opel , but not as a championship based on series touring cars, but with special regulations and thoroughbred racing cars with identical parts such as gearboxes and brakes. Here, the AMG-Mercedes from HWA mostly dominated over the works Opel and the private Abt- Audi, which could only achieve a championship title in one year thanks to concessions to the regulations. After the official entry of Audi in 2004, the competition was stronger, but less numerous with the departure of Opel after 2005. In December 2006, HWA GmbH was converted into HWA AG. The financial investor Toto Wolff and co-investors participated in the company. On April 19, 2007, the company went public on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, which brought some of the shares into free float.

In the 2007 season, Aufrecht and his HWA AG team are operating four Mercedes-Benz vehicles in the DTM. The most successful driver of the HWA team is Bernd Schneider with seven championship titles and three runner-up titles in the DTM, ITC and FIA GT championships.

Paul di Resta for HWA AG, German Touring Car Masters 2014 - Hockenheimring

Paul di Resta won the championship in 2010 against his brand colleagues Gary Paffett and Bruno Spengler . At the same time, HWA AG secured first and second places in the team championship.

In 2015 , HWA won the drivers' championship with Pascal Wehrlein , and again in 2018 with Gary Paffett . The HWA team won a total of nine drivers' titles for Mercedes-Benz until the brand withdrew from the DTM at the end of 2018.

Other motorsport activities

From 2003 the company also acted as an engine supplier for Formula 3 . Initially only in the Formula 3 Euro Series , since 2006 also in the British Formula 3 Championship . While Opel also supplied engines to the Formula 3 Euro Series in the 2007 season, Volkswagen was the only competitor in the 2009 season.

Since the end of 2018, the team's motorsport activities have been carried out under the name HWA Racelab .

HWA driver Gary Paffett at the Hong Kong E-Prix 2019

The team entered the FIA Formula E Championship for the 2018/19 season . Paffett and Stoffel Vandoorne were hired as drivers . The team finished ninth in the team ranking with 44 points. At the end of the season, the Mercedes-Benz EQ Formula E team took over the starting position from HWA Racelab, but HWA will be responsible for the team's deployment on the track.

Sophia Flörsch 2019 in Macau

In 2019 , HWA competed in Formula 3 with three vehicles . Keyvan Andres , Jake Hughes and Bent Viscaal were signed up as drivers . The team finished the season in fifth place in the team standings, with Hughes finishing seventh in the overall standings as the best driver of the team. At the Macau Grand Prix Viscaal was replaced by Sophia Flörsch .

Corporate management

Hans-Jürgen Mattheis was the board member and team manager until the spring of 2010. Technical director and also member of the board was Gerhard Ungar. After Mattheis' resignation from the spring of 2010, Ungar was the sole director of HWA AG. From October 2012 to September 2013, Ungar was supported by Eric Nève, and Ulrich Fritz joined the board on December 1, 2013. On May 8, 2014 the Supervisory Board announced the separation from CEO Gerhard Ungar.

The chairman of the supervisory board is Hans Werner Aufrecht . Willibald Dörflinger, Gert-Jan Bruggink, Hussain A. Al Siddiqi and Klemens Große-Vehne also sit on the company's supervisory board.

Business data and company structure

In 2007 the company achieved an EBIT of 9.1 and a net profit of 5.6 million € (2006) with 224 employees.

In addition to the “automobile racing” division, the company develops and manufactures components for Daimler AG and Mercedes-AMG in the “Vehicles / Vehicle Components” division. On their behalf, (e) HWA also produces very special small-series street models. These include the CLK-GTR , the CLK-DTM AMG and the A32 K (A-Class) .

statistics

DTM

successes

1988	DTM debut
1989	4th place DTM
1990	3rd place DTM
1991	2nd place DTM
1992	1st place DTM
1993	2nd place DTM
1994	1st place DTM
1995	1st place DTM and ITC
1996	2nd place ITC
1997	1st place in the FIA ​​GT Championship
1998	1st place in the driver and team classification in the FIA ​​GT Championship
1999	Participation in the Le Mans 24h race
2000	1st place DTM with Schneider
2001	1st place DTM with Schneider
2002	2nd place DTM with Schneider
2003	1st place DTM with Schneider
2004	2nd place DTM with Paffett
2005	1st place DTM with Paffett
2006	1st place DTM with Schneider
2007	2nd place DTM with Spengler
2008	2nd place DTM with di Resta, 1st place team classification
2009	2nd place DTM with Paffett, 1st place team classification
2010	1st place DTM with di Resta, 1st place team ranking
2011	2nd place team classification, 3rd place DTM driver classification
2012	2nd place team classification, 2nd place DTM driver classification
2013	3rd place team classification, 4th place DTM driver classification
2014	4th place team classification, 4th place DTM driver classification
2015	1st place DTM with Wehrlein, 1st place team classification
2016	4th place in the DTM drivers' championship
2017	3rd place DTM team classification, 6th place DTM driver classification
2018	1st place DTM with Paffett, 1st place team classification, 1st place brand classification

driver

2000	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	Bernd Schneider	Thomas Hunter	Klaus Ludwig	Marcel Fässler
2001	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	Bernd Schneider	Peter Dumbreck	Uwe Alzen	Marcel Fässler
2002	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	Bernd Schneider	Jean Alesi	Uwe Alzen	Marcel Fässler
2003	AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	Bernd Schneider	Jean Alesi	Christijan Albers	Marcel Fässler
2004	AMG-Mercedes C-Class	Bernd Schneider with racing engineer Martin Marx	Jean Alesi with race engineer Markus Röhrich	Christijan Albers with race engineer Axel Randolph	Gary Paffett with race engineer Thomas Strick
2005	AMG-Mercedes C-Class	Bernd Schneider with race engineer Markus Röhrich	Jean Alesi with race engineer Jürgen Zürn	Mika Häkkinen with race engineer Axel Randolph	Gary Paffett with race engineer Thomas Strick
2006	AMG-Mercedes C-Class	Bernd Schneider with race engineer Markus Röhrich	Jamie Green with race engineer Martin Marx	Mika Häkkinen with race engineer Axel Randolph / Jürgen Zürn	Bruno Spengler with race engineer Thomas Strick
2007	AMG-Mercedes C-Class	Bernd Schneider with race engineer Markus Röhrich	Jamie Green with race engineer Jürgen Zürn	Mika Häkkinen with race engineer Axel Randolph	Bruno Spengler with race engineer Thomas Strick
2008	AMG-Mercedes C-Class	Bernd Schneider with race engineer Markus Röhrich	Jamie Green with race engineer Jürgen Zürn	Paul di Resta with racing engineer Axel Randolph	Bruno Spengler with race engineer Matthias Huber
2009	AMG-Mercedes C-Class	Bruno Spengler with race engineer Markus Röhrich	Paul di Resta with racing engineer Axel Randolph	Ralf Schumacher with race engineer Andreas Riedl	Gary Paffett with race engineer Thomas Strick
2010	AMG-Mercedes C-Class	Bruno Spengler with racing engineer Sven Bluszcz	Paul di Resta with racing engineer Axel Randolph	Ralf Schumacher with race engineer Andreas Riedl	Gary Paffett with race engineer Thomas Strick
2011	AMG-Mercedes C-Class	Jamie Green	Gary Paffett	Ralf Schumacher with race engineer Andreas Riedl	Bruno Spengler
2012	AMG Mercedes C Coupé	Jamie Green	Gary Paffett	Ralf Schumacher with race engineer Andreas Riedl	Christian Vietoris
2013	AMG Mercedes C Coupé	Gary Paffett	Roberto Merhi	Christian Vietoris	Robert Wickens
2013	AMG Mercedes C Coupé	Gary Paffett	Roberto Merhi	Christian Vietoris	Robert Wickens
2014	AMG Mercedes C Coupé	Christian Vietoris	Paul di Resta	Gary Paffett	Robert Wickens	Pascal Wehrlein
2015	AMG Mercedes C Coupé	Christian Vietoris	Paul di Resta	Pascal Wehrlein	Robert Wickens
2016	AMG Mercedes C Coupé	Daniel Juncadella	Paul di Resta	Maximilian Götz	Robert Wickens
2017	AMG Mercedes C Coupé	Gary Paffett	Paul di Resta	Lucas Auer	Robert Wickens	Edoardo Mortara	Maro Engel
2018	AMG Mercedes C Coupé	Gary Paffett	Paul di Resta	Lucas Auer	Daniel Juncadella	Edoardo Mortara	Pascal Wehrlein	Sébastien Ogier

Individual results in the FIA ​​Formula E Championship

driver	No.	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	Points	rank
FIA Formula E Championship 2018/19		TO YOU	MAR	SAN	MEX	HKG	SAY	ROME	PAR	MCO	BER	BRN	NYC					44	9.
Stoffel Vandoorne	05	°16 °	°DNF °	°DNF °	°18 °	°DNF °	°DNF °	°3 °	°DNF °	°9 °	°5 °	°10 °	°13 °	°8 °
Gary Paffett	17th	DNF	DNF	14th	16	8th	DNF	DNF	8th	12	16	17th	11	10

( Legend )

Web links

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Individual evidence

1. ↑ Company. Retrieved July 27, 2019 . 
2. ↑ ^{a b} HWA AG: Annual Report 2018 (PDF 9.15 MB) Accessed April 21, 2020 . 
3. ↑ DTM team list 2007. In: Wayback Machine. ITR eV, Wiesbaden, archived from the original on June 18, 2009 ; accessed on March 27, 2013 . 
4. ↑ Volkswagen returns to Formula 3 as an engine supplier. In: Sideways - The site for motorsport. CB-Verlags GmbH, July 18, 2007, accessed on March 27, 2013 . 
5. ↑ hwaag.com from November 15, 2019, Together for the dream of the premier class: HWA and REMUS enter into partnership ... , accessed on December 23, 2019.
6. ↑ Company. Retrieved April 20, 2020 .