Persson Motorsport
Persson Motorsport was a German racing team that emerged in 1992 from the former motorsport teams IPS Motorsport and Mass and Schons . Team boss was the Swede Ingmar Persson .
Ingmar Persson drove himself until 1983, when he started working as a technician for the Swedish racing team IPS Motorsport. From 1985 the team fielded touring cars of the type Volvo 240 turbo in the German Touring Car Championship . In the very first year, Per Stureson became German touring car champion . In 1988, Jochen Mass and Günter Schons took over the team and moved it to Saarbrücken . From 1989 to 1992 the new MS team used the Mercedes-Benz 190E cars . As a Mercedes-Benz works team, drivers like Frank Biela , Manuel Reuter or Jacques Laffite drove for the team. After the 1992 season, Mass and Schons withdrew, Ingmar Persson took over the team and renamed it Persson Motorsport. Until the end of the series in 1996 , Uwe Alzen , Olaf Manthey , Ellen Lohr and Bernd Mayländer drove for the Saarlanders. The best result up to 1996 was achieved by Uwe Alzen in the last race of the season in 1995 at the Hockenheimring , when he took second place in the second race. From 1993 to 1995 Persson was the best private team in the DTM.
After the end of the DTM, Persson fielded models of the Mercedes-Benz CLK GTR in the FIA GT championship .
In 2000 , the DTM was revived as the German Touring Car Masters and Persson returned to the series as a Mercedes-Benz works team. Over time, Persson developed into a talent factory for Mercedes-Benz. The later HWA factory drivers Christijan Albers , Bruno Spengler , Jamie Green and Paul di Resta drove for Persson. Even Gary Paffett or Jean Alesi were traveling in a body set by Persson Motorsport Mercedes-Benz. In 2007 , the Audi team Abt Sportsline around Timo Scheider and Tom Kristensen even had to admit defeat in the Persson team classification.
In 2009 Persson Motorsport fielded two AMG - Mercedes-Benz C-Class cars . The drivers were the Briton Jamie Green, who came from HWA, and the Scot Susie Stoddart . This year, Green was the second driver after Gary Paffett to win a year-old car. After a turbulent final phase , Green won the race at the Norisring ahead of Bruno Spengler and Mattias Ekström .
In 2010 the driver pairing Green / Stoddart remained. Persson also used CongFu Cheng, a third driver in the year-old car. Green was able to repeat his victory at the Norisring and is therefore the first driver in DTM history to celebrate three wins in a row in three consecutive years with one and the same car. Stoddart was able to get her first points at the EuroSpeedway Lausitz and Hockenheimring . Only Cheng remained without points.
For 2011 , Green switched back to the new car from HWA and Stoddart stayed with Persson. New to the team were Renger van der Zande from the Netherlands and Christian Vietoris , who also started in the GP2 series this season .
Persson Motorsport was one of the few teams in the DTM that could win with an annual car. In 2007 Gary Paffett won in Oschersleben and in 2009 and 2010 Jamie Green won the Norisring .
In February 2013, the Heico Group, to which Persson belonged, announced that Persson's racing operations would be discontinued and transferred to HTP Motorsport GmbH .
Driver in the DTM
| 1993 | AMG-Mercedes 190E 2.5-16 Evo II | Uwe Alzen | Olaf Manthey | Markus Oestreich | |
| 1994 | AMG Mercedes 190 E. | Uwe Alzen | Marc Gindorf | ||
| 1995 | Mercedes-Benz C-Class V6 | Uwe Alzen | Bernd Mayländer | ||
| 1996 | Mercedes-Benz C-Class V6 | Ellen Lohr | Bernd Mayländer | Ratanakul Prutirat | Alexander Gray |
| 2000 | AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM | Marcel Tiemann | Peter Dumbreck | ||
| 2001 | AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM | Thomas Hunter | Christijan Albers | ||
| 2002 | AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM | Thomas Hunter | Peter Dumbreck | ||
| 2003 | AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM | Thomas Hunter | Bernd Mayländer | Katsutomo Kaneishi | |
| 2004 | AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM | Markus Winkelhock | Stefan Mücke | ||
| 2005 | AMG-Mercedes C-Class | Bruno Spengler | Jamie Green | ||
| 2006 | AMG-Mercedes C-Class | Jean Alesi | Alexandros Margaritis | Mathias Lauda | |
| 2007 | AMG-Mercedes C-Class | Gary Paffett | Alexandros Margaritis | Mathias Lauda | |
| 2008 | AMG-Mercedes C-Class | Gary Paffett | Mathias Lauda | Susie Stoddart | |
| 2009 | AMG-Mercedes C-Class | Jamie Green | Susie Stoddart | ||
| 2010 | AMG-Mercedes C-Class | Jamie Green | Susie Stoddart | Congfu Cheng | |
| 2011 | AMG-Mercedes C-Class | Susie Stoddart | Christian Vietoris | Renger van der Zande | |
| 2012 | AMG-Mercedes C-Class | Roberto Merhi | Susie Wolff |
