Mühlner Motorsport

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Mühlner Motorsport SPRL
legal form SPRL ( GmbH )
founding 1989
Seat Francorchamps , Belgium
management Bernhard Mühlner
Branch Motorsport
Website muehlner-motorsport.com

Mühlner Motorsport is a Belgian motorsport team that is active in the Gran Turismo sector and took part in the 2012 FIA GT1 World Championship (as Exim Bank Team China ). The team has a close connection to the automobile manufacturer Porsche and is also active as a parts supplier and service provider in motorsport.

history

A Porsche 997 GT3 R from Mühlner Motorsport in the 2011 ADAC GT Masters .

Beginnings with Opel and Volvo

Mühlner Motorsport started using Opel vehicles in endurance racing in 1989 . The greatest successes of this time are winning the team classification of the FIA ​​sanctioned SERIE INTERNATIONAL GROUP N 1996 as well as the driver’s classification in 1996 and 1997 and the driver and team classification of the VLN endurance championship Nürburgring in 1997. From the end of 2001 onwards, Mühlner Motorsport developed a racing version of the Volvo S60 that were used by Mühlner Motorsport itself up to and including 2004 and then by customer teams.

Gran Turismo

From 2004, Mühlner Motorsport started using Porsche brands in various national and international GT championships and endurance races. These include the FIA GT3 European Championship , the ADAC GT Masters , the VLN Endurance Championship Nürburgring and the Porsche Supercup . The team was also present and successful in endurance races, such as the 24-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps , the 24-hour race at the Nürburgring or the 24-hour race at Daytona . From 2008 used the Mühlner Motorsport Porsche 911 GT3 Cup S and from 2010 the Porsche 997 GT3 R . In 2012 the team started a race of the ADAC GT Masters with a Chevrolet Camaro GT , which was driven by Oliver Gavin and Roland Asch .

FIA GT1 World Championship

In 2012 Mühlner Motorsport was responsible for the deployment of two Porsche 997 GT3 Rs in the FIA GT1 World Championship . The series promoter SRO initiated this commitment in order to increase the number of vehicles for the championship to the necessary minimum. The team started with the involvement of the main Chinese sponsor as Exim Bank Team China . After the fifth race of the season, Mühlner Motorsport no longer competed in the FIA ​​GT1 World Championship because the Exim Bank had withdrawn financially after the race in China was canceled.

Benjamin Lariche competed at Mühlner Motorsport with three different partners: Ren Wei , Dino Lunardi and Andreas Zuber . However, none of these pairings was able to achieve points - also because the vehicle could not start in four races due to technical problems. Frenchman Mike Parisy and New Zealander Matt Halliday shared a vehicle for four race weekends and together achieved third place in the qualifying race and a victory in the main race in Zolder . Parisy drove his last race at Mühlner Motorsport together with Andreas Zuber at the event in Portugal .

successes

Mühlner Motorsport has won 107 races, eight championships and 3 runner-up championships up to and including June 2014 across all championships. A total of 250 podiums were taken.
1995

  • Champion of the "European Community Challenge" with Wolfgang Savelsbergh and Wilhelm Hahne

1996

  • Champion of the drivers championship of the FIA ​​"SERIE INTERNATIONAL GROUPE N" by Wolfgang Savelsbergh and Heinz-Josef Bermes
  • Champion of the team classification of the FIA ​​"SERIE INTERNATIONAL GROUPE N"

1997

  • Champion of the driver classification of the FIA ​​"SERIE INTERNATIONALE GROUPE N" by Wolfgang Savelsbergh
  • Champion of the drivers championship of the VLN endurance championship Nürburgring with Dirk Adorf and Heinz-Josef Bermes
  • Champion of the team classification of the VLN endurance championship Nürburgring

2004

2005

  • Winner of category G3 of the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race

2007

  • Winner of category G3 of the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race
  • Winner in the cup class of the German Endurance Championship Nürburgring

2008

2010

  • Winner of the GT3 category of the Spa-Francorchamps 24-hour race

2012

  • Victory in the FIA ​​GT World Championship in Zolder with Mike Parisy and Matt Halliday

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f Image Folder ( Memento from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (muehlner-motorsport.com on September 5, 2012; PDF; 962 kB)
  2. ^ "All masters at a glance" ( Memento from October 2, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (vln.de on September 5, 2012)
  3. ↑ "GT Masters at the Österreichring: Spielberg calls" ( Memento from August 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (sportscar-info.de on September 5, 2012)
  4. ↑ “Entry of three new teams secures future of FIA GT1 World Championship” (autosport.com on September 3, 2012)
  5. ↑ "GT World Championship: Mühlner because of sponsor withdrawal before World Championship exit?" ( Memento from December 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (sportscar-info.de on September 5, 2012)

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