Team RMG

BMW Team RMG

Founded	2010
Founder(s)	Stefan Reinhold
Base	Andernach, Rhineland-Palatinate
Former series	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters
Teams' Championships	2 (2014 and 2016)
Drivers' Championships	2 (2014 and 2016)

Team RMG better known as BMW Team RMG, is a German racing team founded in late 2010 by Stefan Reinhold, in order to race in the DTM in 2012, also coinciding with BMW return to the championship after 20 Years of absence from the championship, despite being a team build from the scratch, they signed 26 employees and many others for the 2012 season, with many previously worked for various racing teams, in 2012 the debut year of the team, Martin Tomczyk the reigning DTM champion from 2011 signed with BMW and he was placed in RMG, while Joey Hand the first American driver to race in a factory squad in the DTM and member from the BMW American Le Mans Series team, was also placed in the team.

The 2012 started strongly for the team with Tomczyk scoring podium finishes at the Red Bull Ring in Austria, at Norisring and in the Nürburgring, however he retired in the next three races and finished 14th in Hockenheimring, while Hand scored points in the Red Bull Ring and in the final race of the season in Hockenheimring ending the year with 6 points, while Tomczyk scored 69 points in the season, scoring three less from his championship year. (The DTM put in place a new points system in the 2012 season). For 2013 Tomczyk will continue with the team while Hand is now placed in BMW Team RBM, Former 3-time World Touring Car Championship champions driver Andy Priaulx has replaced Hand in Team RMG.

The team is based in Niederzissen, in former Zakspeed headquarters also near the Nürburgring.

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results

(key)

Year	Entrant	Car	No	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	Pos	Points
2012	BMW Team RMG	BMW M3 DTM	1	Martin Tomczyk	HOC Ret	LAU 7	BRH 4	SPL 2	NOR 2	NÜR 3	ZAN Ret	OSC Ret	VAL Ret	HOC 14	8th	69
			2	Joey Hand	HOC 13	LAU 14	BRH 13	SPL 9	NOR 14	NÜR 18	ZAN 14	OSC 11	VAL 15†	HOC 8	20th	6
2013	BMW Team RMG	BMW M3 DTM	15	Martin Tomczyk	HOC 13	BRH 14	SPL Ret	LAU 19	NOR Ret	MSC 17	NÜR 5	OSC 20†	ZAN 11	HOC 19	19th	10
			16	Andy Priaulx	HOC 17†	BRH 19	SPL 19	LAU 22	NOR 9	MSC 20	NÜR 16	OSC 19	ZAN 19	HOC 6	20th	10
2014	BMW Team RMG	BMW M4 DTM	23	Marco Wittmann	HOC 1	OSC 19	HUN 1	NOR 6	MSC 4	SPL 1	NÜR 1	LAU 6	ZAN 2	HOC 5	1st	156
			23	Maxime Martin	HOC 20	OSC 14	HUN 6	NOR 17	MSC 1	SPL 15	NÜR 7	LAU 14	ZAN 6	HOC Ret	7th	47

* Season still in progress. ^† Driver did not finish, but completed 75% of the race distance.

References

External links

• BMW Motorsport  DTM  BMW Team RMG
• Interview with Stefan Reinhold in 2012
• Team history in DTM website

This page was last edited on 8 June 2023, at 18:10