Reinhold Motorsport

Marco Wittmann in the BMW M4 DTM at Hockenheim (2019)

Reinhold Motorsport (short RMG for Reinhold Motorsport GmbH ) is a German automobile sports team from Andernach . The founder and namesake of the team is Stefan Reinhold.

history

After BMW announced its return to the DTM for the 2012 season , the newly formed Reinhold Motorsport GmbH around founder and namesake Stefan Reinhold applied in autumn 2010 for a place as the manufacturer's team in the series and was awarded the contract in spring 2011. According to Reinhold, the staff that made up the team brought with them experience from various areas of automobile sport , including GT racing, the World Rally Championship , the Formula 1 World Championship and the DTM. The team is based in Niederzissen in Rhineland-Palatinate , where Zakspeed moved into premises . In its first season, the team fielded two BMW M3 DTMs under the name BMW Team RMG . These were driven by the German Martin Tomczyk , 2011 DTM champion, and the newcomer Joey Hand from the United States . At the season opener in Hockenheim Tomczyk retired early, while Hand reached 13th place in his debut race. At the second run of the year in Klettwitz , Tomczyk scored the team's first six scoring points in seventh place. His team-mate remained in 14th place, as in Hockenheim, without points. At Brands Hatch , Tomczyk was able to improve again two weeks later with fourth place. He also drove the fastest race lap . In Spielberg , the German reached Reinhold Motorsport's first podium in second place. At the same time, Hand was able to get into the points for the first time in ninth place. Tomczyk's second place in Nuremberg and third place at the Nürburgring were followed by three races in Zandvoort , Oschersleben and Cheste , in which the team remained completely without points. At the season finale, which also took place in Hockenheim, Hand finished eighth for the second time this year. With six points he was 20th in the drivers' championship and was defeated by Tomczyk. This came in eighth with 69 points. Reinhold Motorsport also achieved eighth place in the team classification. For the 2013 season, Joey Hand switched to Racing Bart Mampaey within the BMW team, swapping his cockpit with the Brit Andy Priaulx , who from now on competed for Reinhold Motorsport in his place. Martin Tomczyk stayed with the team. In the fifth race of the season in Nuremberg, Priaulx scored the first points of the season for the team in ninth place. At the Nürburgring, Tomczyk achieved the best result this year in fifth place. At the finale in Hockenheim, Priaulx finished sixth. In the drivers' championship Tomczyk achieved 19th place, Priaulx 20th place. Both had scored ten points each. The team ranking was decided in tenth place.

In 2014 the new BMW M4 DTM were used . Tomczyk and Priaulx were replaced by the German Marco Wittmann , who started for the MTEK team last year , and the debutant Maxime Martin from Belgium . While Tomczyk switched to Schnitzer Motorsport , Priaulx left the series for the United SportsCar Championship . Wittmann won the first race of the season in Hockenheim. It was the first victory in the DTM for both him and Reinhold Motorsport. Martin stayed in 20th place without points on his debut. After the pole position in Oschersleben, which he could not convert into a point position , Wittmann achieved his second win of the season in Mogyoród , starting from first place on the grid again. In Wolokolamsk , Martin was also able to take pole position for the first time and win a race. In the further course of the season Wittmann achieved two more victories in Spielberg and on the Nürburgring. At the end of the season he won the DTM championship for the first time with 156 points. Martin was seventh overall. Reinhold Motorsport also won the championship of the teams. A total of five race wins, six podium positions, four pole positions and three fastest race laps had been achieved. In 2015 Martin and Wittmann stayed with RMG. Compared to previous years, from now on each race weekend included two races. At the Saturday race in Zandvoort, Wittmann clinched the team's first victory of the year. As Martin also finished third, this was the first race in which both Reinhold Motorsport drivers reached the podium. In Wolokolamsk, Wittmann finished second from pole position on Saturday. In the Sunday race in Oschersleben, he finished third again on the podium. After Zandvoort, Martin was also able to classify himself on the podium twice: as the winner of Saturday's race at the Nürburgring and third in the season finale in Hockenheim. In the final ranking of the drivers, Wittmann came in sixth and Martin in seventh. They came second in the team standings. Thus, both titles from the previous year could not be defended. In 2016 Maxime Martin switched to Racing Bart Mampaey. He was replaced by Timo Glock , who had previously been a driver for Team MTEK. On the second race weekend in Spielberg, RMG was able to win both races: First, Marco Wittmann won the race on Saturday from pole position. A day later, Glock won the second race. Over the course of the year, Wittmann mostly consistently scored points and scored two more day victories in the Sunday race in Wolokolamsk and in the Saturday race at the Nürburgring. At the end of the season, Wittmann won the second championship title and RMG took second place in the team championship, while Glock was tenth in the drivers' championship.

For the 2017 season , the number of vehicles per manufacturer was reduced from eight to six. In the course of this, the BMW teams MTEK and Schnitzer Motorsport left the DTM. Instead, the remaining teams, Reinhold Motorsport and Racing Bart Mampaey, each fielded three vehicles from now on. Since only the results of two drivers per team can be included in the team classification, Reinhold Mampaey Racing (also BMW Team RMR ) was formed, for which Reinhold Motorsport and Racing Bart Mampaey each provided a driver. On the RMG side, this was Timo Glock. From now on, MTEK's Brazilian Augusto Farfus drove alongside Marco Wittmann . At the start of the season in Hockenheim, Glock was able to take the first podium place in second place and also the first victory of the year for Reinhold Motorsport in Zandvoort. In the last race of the season, also in Hockenheim, Wittmann scored his only victory in 2017, Farfus was denied a podium place throughout the season. Wittmann reached fifth, Glock seventh and Farfus 16th in the drivers' standings. As BMW Team RMG with drivers Wittmann and Farfus, the team achieved sixth place in the relevant classification. In 2018 , the trio remained with the team in their previous line-up. At the season opener, which again took place in Hockenheim, Glock won the Sunday race. Wittmann was also able to win the Sunday race in Mogyoród as well as in Nuremberg and classified himself fourth in the final ranking, directly ahead of Glock, who finished fifth. Farfus, whose best result was a second place in Saturday's race at Brands Hatch, placed 16th as in the previous year, as did the team with the results of Wittmann and Farfus in sixth place. Farfus left the DTM in 2019 and was replaced by the 2012 DTM champion, the Canadian Bruno Spengler , who had previously driven for Racing Bart Mampaey. Wittmann completed his sixth, Glock his fourth season for RMG. Wittmann won the first race of the season and thus took the lead in the overall standings, which he had to hand over to Philipp Eng after the fourth race . Later that year he won the Saturday races at Misano , Assen and Brands Hatch. At the end of the year he was third in the drivers' championship. With a victory in the Sunday race in Nuremberg, Spengler was ninth in this classification. Glock remained without a win or a podium place this year and finished twelfth. In the team ranking, the pairing Wittmann and Spengler reached fourth place.

For season 2020 Bruno Spengler leaves the DTM and is the Austrian Lucas Auer replaced the already 2015-2018 DTM driver for Mercedes was.

statistics

Martin Tomczyk in the BMW M3 DTM at Brands Hatch (2012)

Timo Glock in the BMW M4 DTM at Hockenheim (2016)

Marco Wittmann (right) in a duel with Mattias Ekström at the Norisring ; in the background the Audi RS 5 DTM of Nico Müller and hides Jamie Green (2017)

Status: end of season 2019

Overall placements as BMW Team RMG

• 2012 : 8th place (75 points)
• 2013 : 10th place (20 points)
• 2014 : 1st place (203 points)
• 2015 : 2nd place (206 points)
• 2016 : 2nd place (290 points)
• 2017 : 6th place (195 points)
• 2018 : 6th place (220 points)
• 2019 : 4th place (308 points)

Overview

Including the third vehicle used by Reinhold Mampaey Racing since 2017 .

season	Manufacturer	vehicle	tires	run	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	Points
2012	BMW	BMW M3 DTM	H	10	-	2	1	-	1	75
2013	BMW	BMW M3 DTM	H	10	-	-	-	-	-	20th
2014	BMW	BMW M4 DTM	H	10	5	1	-	4th	3	203
2015	BMW	BMW M4 DTM	H	18th	2	1	3	2	1	206
2016	BMW	BMW M4 DTM	H	18th	4th	2	1	3	1	290
2017	BMW	BMW M4 DTM	H	18th	2	3	4th	5	-	328
2018	BMW	BMW M4 DTM	H	20th	3	5	4th	2	4th	364
2019	BMW	BMW M4 DTM	H	18th	5	3	1	4th	1	366
total				122	21st	17th	14th	20th	11	1852

All Reinhold Motorsport drivers in the DTM

driver	Years	run	Points	Victories	Second	Third	Poles	nice Race laps	best pos.
Marco Wittmann	2014-2019	102	1000	15th	9	8th	13	5	1. ( 2014 , 2016 )
Timo Glock	2016-2019	74	419	3	4th	3	4th	3	5. ( 2018 )
Augusto Farfus	2017-2018	38	91	-	1	-	1	1	16. ( 2017 , 2018 )
Maxime Martin	2014-2015	28	141	2	-	2	2	1	7. ( 2014 , 2015 )
Martin Tomczyk	2012-2013	20th	79	-	2	1	-	1	8. ( 2012 )
Bruno Spengler	2019	18th	106	1	1	-	-	-	9. ( 2019 )
Andy Priaulx	2013	10	10	-	-	-	-	-	20th ( 2013 )
Joey hand	2012	10	6th	-	-	-	-	-	20th ( 2012 )

Drivers from the past 2019 season are highlighted in yellow.

Results

season	driver	No.	1	2	3	4th	5	6th	7th	8th	9	10	11	12	13	14th	15th	16	17th	18th	19th	20th
2012			HO1	LAU	BRH	SPI	NOR	ONLY	ZAN	OSC	VAL	HO2
	M. Tomczyk	01	DNF	7th	4th	2	2	3	DNF	DNF	DNF	14th
	J. Hand	02	13	14th	13	9	14th	18th	14th	11	15 *	8th
2013			HO1	BRH	SPI	LAU	NOR	MOS	ONLY	OSC	ZAN	HO2
	M. Tomczyk	15th	13	14th	DNF	19th	DNF	17th	5	20 *	11	19th
	A. Priaulx	16	17 *	19th	19th	22nd	9	20th	16	19th	20th	6th
2014			HO1	OSC	HUN	NOR	MOS	SPI	ONLY	LAU	ZAN	HO2
	M. Wittmann	23	1	19th	1	6th	4th	1	1	6th	2	5
	M. Martin	24	20th	14th	6th	17th	1	14th	7th	14th	6th	DNF
2015			HO1		LAU		NOR		ZAN		SPI		MOS		OSC		ONLY		HO2
	M. Wittmann	01	9	5	13	17th	9	13	1	5	9	11	2	7th	6th	3	7th	18th	6th	DNF
	M. Martin	36	7th	14th	7th	8th	DNF	10	3	17th	14th	19th	18th	4th	11	9	1	13	3	6th
2016			HO1		SPI		LAU		NOR		ZAN		MOS		ONLY		HUN		HO2
	M. Wittmann	11	16	8th	1	7th	4th	6th	4th	6th	2	4th	19th	1	1	3	7th	DSQ	2	4th
	T. Glock	16	DNF	DSQ	4th	1	12	10	21st	9	21st	6th	11	24 *	5	14th	14th	5	7th	5
2017			HO1		LAU		HUN		NOR		MOS		ZAN		ONLY		SPI		HO2
	M. Wittmann	11	10	3	13	9	8th	DNF 2	4th	5	3 1	6th	2 3	DSQ 2	9 2	3 1	5	6 3	13	1 3
	A. Farfus	15th	13	DNF	12	14th	11	12	DNF	7th	17 *	11	6 2	8 1	8th	9	DNF	12	17th	7th
	T. Glock	16	2	8 1	11	15th	2	7th	5	10	5	13	1 1	7th	12	8th	10	7th	3 1	12
2018			HO1		LAU		HUN		NOR		ZAN		BRH		MIS		ONLY		SPI		HO2
	M. Wittmann	11	11 2	11	7th	2	16	1	3 3	1	7th	17th	9	5	9	13	5	3	7th	14th	DNF	2 1
	A. Farfus	15th	15th	10	10	16	15th	7th	14th	17th	8th	5	2	DNF	11	DNF	9	7th	9	DNF	DNF	7th
	T. Glock	16	3 3	1 1	2	5	14th	2	10	10	6th	10	13	11	7th	15th	4th	16	DNF 2	7th	3 3	10
2019			HO1		ZOL		MIS		NOR		ASS		BRH		LAU		ONLY		HO2
	B. Spengler	07th	7th	5	10 3	7th	4th	8th	5 2	1	15th	DNF	12	DNF	9	14th	2 2	10	8th	9
	M. Wittmann	11	1 1	8 2	7 1	13	1	DNF	8th	16 *	1 1	2	1 1	10	4th	6th	3	DNF	2 2	12
	T. Glock	16	4th	6th	13	14th	10	DNF	DNF	9	5	14th	13	12	DNF	15 *	9	9	6th	4 3

( Legend )

Web links

Commons : Reinhold Motorsport  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

• Official website
• BMW Team RMG on DTM.com
• BMW Team RMG in portrait at Motorsport-Total.com

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b A} portrait of Reinhold Motorsport GmbH. Motorsport-Total.com, March 10, 2011, accessed October 25, 2019 . 
2. ↑ The successful team from the Eifel: the BMW Team RMG. Marco-Wittmann.com, accessed on October 25, 2019 . 
3. ↑ DTM drivers and teams 2012. Motorsport-Magazin.com, accessed on October 25, 2019 . 
4. ↑ DTM drivers and teams 2013. Motorsport-Magazin.com, accessed on October 25, 2019 . 
5. ↑ DTM drivers and teams 2014. Motorsport-Magazin.com, accessed on October 25, 2019 . 
6. ↑ DTM drivers and teams 2015. Motorsport-Magazin.com, accessed on October 25, 2019 . 
7. ↑ BMW teams known for DTM 2016: Timo Glock changes. Motorsport-Total.com, February 4, 2016, accessed October 25, 2019 . 
8. ↑ New structure at BMW: Schnitzer and MTEK leave DTM. Motorsport-Total.com, December 6, 2016, accessed October 25, 2019 . 
9. ^ Sönke Brederlow: BMW's DTM drivers for 2017. Auto Bild, December 11, 2016, accessed on October 25, 2019 . 
10. ↑ DTM drivers and teams 2018. Motorsport-Magazin.com, accessed on October 25, 2019 . 
11. ↑ BMW confirms the first five DTM drivers for the 2019 season. DTM.com, December 8, 2018, accessed on October 25, 2019 . 
12. ↑ BMW driver Bruno Spengler leaves the DTM! Retrieved May 1, 2020 . 
13. ↑ BMW DTM teams and drivers | BMW M Motorsport. Retrieved May 1, 2020 (de-SM).