Schubert Motorsport

Schubert Motorsport
Founded	1999
Team principal(s)	Torsten Schubert
Current series	DTM; VLN; ADAC GT Masters;
Former series	Deutsche Tourenwagen Challenge; ADAC Procar Series; Toyo Tires 24H Series; FIA GT3 European Championship; Blancpain Sprint Series; Blancpain Endurance Series
Current drivers	Sheldon van der Linde; René Rast; Marco Wittmann
Teams'; Championships	2001 DTC; 2003 DTC; 2004 DPM; 2015 ADAC GT Masters; 2022 DTM; 2024 DTM
Drivers'; Championships	2001 DTC; 2003 DTC; 2004 DPM; 2004 ADAC Procar Series; 2005 VLN; 2008 Toyo Tires 24H Series; 2022 DTM

Schubert Motorsport is a private motorsport team founded and owned by team principal and European Autocross champion Torsten Schubert, and headquartered in Oschersleben, Germany (near the Motorsport Arena). The team has operated as a BMW privateer since its inception in 1999 (except in 2018), with plenty of success,^[1] and has specialised in endurance racing since 2004. Although it is closely related to contract BMW associate Schubert Motors GmbH, also owned by Torsten Schubert, they are separate entities.

Schubert's works-supported BMW M6 GT3 on the Nürburgring in the VLN, in 2016, driven by Jörg Müller, Marco Wittmann, and Jesse Krohn.

For much of its earlier years, Schubert focused on touring car racing, taking numerous championships and race wins, including a remarkable 5th-place result and class win at the 2006 Nürburgring 24 Hours. Only beginning in 2007 did Schubert Motorsport initiate regular competition in GT for BMW.

In 2012, after five years of GT racing, the manufacturer established Schubert as a works-assisted customer team of BMW,^[2] which allowed the team to receive benefits and advantages from the cooperation. Incidentally, the team ceased operating with touring cars at this time to focus their efforts on GT racing.

Separately, the team used slightly different names during its time. Beginning with the name of the sister company (Schubert Motors) and then the 'Schubert Motorsport' name, the team was well known for racing under the Need for Speed banner as Need for Speed by Schubert Motorsport (alternatively: Need for Speed Team Schubert) in 2010–2011. It carried the namesakes of its sponsors (like 'PIXUM', 'Saudi Falcons', and 'SX' in their respective series) and 'BMW Sports Trophy' for 2014–2015. Since 2016, the team has competed only as 'Schubert Motorsport'.

In 2018, Schubert Motorsport briefly operated as a Honda customer team, having made the switch from BMW and entering a pair of Honda NSX GT3s in the ADAC GT Masters (despite this, Schubert Motors GmbH continues the close relationship with BMW, but it is a separate entity). Nonetheless, Schubert returned to racing with BMW in the following year.

In 2022, Schubert Motorsport entered the DTM for the first time as the series adopted GT3-based specifications, winning the driver and team titles in their debut year and also winning the team title again in 2024.

Milestones

1999

Debut in circuit racing.
DTC (1 win)

2000

Contested entire DTC season.

2001

1st place DTC Drivers and Team classification (Markus Gedlich, BMW 320i)

2002

3rd place DTC Drivers classification (Claudia Hürtgen, BMW 320i)
3rd place Guia Race (Franz Engstler, BMW 320i)

2003

1st place DTC Drivers and Team classification (Claudia Hürtgen, BMW 320i)
1st place ETCC Independents' Championship (Duncan Huisman, BMW 320i)
2nd place ETCC Independents' Championship (Tom Coronel, BMW 320i)

2004

1st place DPM (DTC) Drivers and Team classification (Claudia Hürtgen, BMW 320i)
1st place ADAC Procar Series Drivers and Team classification (Hürtgen, BMW 320i)^{[citation needed]}

2005

1st place VLN (Claudia Hürtgen, BMW 320i)
ADAC Procar Series (3 wins)

2006

5th place overall and class win 24h race Nürburgring (Claudia Hürtgen, Marc Hennerici, Johannes Stuck, Torsten Schubert, BMW 120d)

2007

1st place Mini Challenge Deutschland (Joakim Mangs, Mini Cooper)
1st place VLN Junior Trophy (Stian Sørlie, BMW 120d)
1st place VLN Stahlwille Cup (Claudia Hürtgen, Hans-Joachim Stuck, Johannes Stuck, BMW Z4)

2008

1st place Toyo Tires 24H Series (Claudia Hürtgen, Stian Sørlie, Jörg Viebahn, BMW 120d, BMW Z4)
15th place overall and class win 24h race Dubai (Hürtgen, Sørlie, Viebahn, BMW 120d)
1st place 12h race Hungary (Hürtgen, Sørlie, Viebahn, BMW Z4)
4th place overall and class win 12h race Hungary (Peter Posavac, Csaba Walter, Jacob Tackmann- Thomson, BMW 120d)
Class win 24h race Nürburgring (Jörg Müller, Augusto Farfus, Fredrik Ekblom, BMW 320d)

2009

1st place 12h race Hungary (Stian Sørlie, Jörg Viebahn, Michael Outzen, BMW Z4)
2nd place 24h race Dubai (Abdulaziz Al Faisal, Khaled Al Faisal, Marko Hartung, Claudia Hürtgen, BMW Z4)

The BMW Z4 GT3 which Schubert is known for using, as Team Need for Speed.

2010

FIA GT3 European Championship (3 wins)
3rd place FIA GT3 European Championship Team classification
3rd place 24h race Dubai (Abdulaziz Al Faisal, Khaled Al Faisal, Marko Hartung, Claudia Hürtgen, BMW Z4 GT3)
4th place 24h race Nürburgring (Hartung, Edward Sandström, Patrick Söderlund, Martin Öhlin, BMW Z4 GT3)

2011

FIA GT3 European Championship (1 win)
2nd place FIA GT3 European Championship Team classification
1st place 24h race Dubai (Augusto Farfus, Edward Sandström, Tommy Milner, Claudia Hürtgen, BMW Z4 GT3)
1st place 24h race Barcelona (Sandström, Michael Outzen, Peter Posavac, Lars Stugemo, BMW Z4 GT3)
2nd place 24h race Spa-Francorchamps (Qualified 49th), (Sandström, Dirk Werner, Hürtgen, BMW Z4 GT3)

Schubert's Z4 GT3 in the ADAC GT Masters, driven by Claudia Hürtgen.

2012

ADAC GT Masters (1 win)
4th place 24h race Dubai (Faisal Binladen, Edward Sandström, Jörg Müller, Claudia Hürtgen, Abdulaziz Al Faisal, BMW Z4 GT3)
VLN (1 win)
Pole position in the 24h race Nürburgring (Uwe Alzen, BMW Z4 GT3)
7th and 8th place 24h race Nürburgring

2013

ADAC GT Masters (3 wins)
3rd place ADAC GT Masters Team classification
VLN (1 win)
6th place 24h race Nürburgring

2014

ADAC GT Masters (2 wins)
6th place 24h race Nürburgring
Blancpain Endurance Series (1 win)

2015

ADAC GT Masters (1 win)
2nd place ADAC GT Masters Driver classification (Dominik Baumann, BMW Z4 GT3)
3rd place ADAC GT Masters Driver classification (Jens Klingmann, BMW Z4 GT3)
1st place ADAC GT Masters Team classification
6th place 24h race Nürburgring

2016

VLN (1 win)
First win for the BMW M6 GT3
ADAC GT Masters

2017

Tested the BMW M4 GT4 for BMW Motorsport
25th place 24h race Dubai (Qualified 49th, 5th in SPX class) (Ricky Collard, Jens Klingmann, Jörg Müller, BMW M4 GT4)
GT4 European Series Southern Cup

2018

ADAC GT Masters
Competed as Honda customer team

2019

(One-year hiatus from racing)^[3]

2020

ADAC GT Masters (1 win)
Return to GT3 racing with BMW

2021

ADAC GT Masters
20th place 24h race Nürburgring

2022

DTM (3 wins)
1st place DTM Driver classification (Sheldon van der Linde, BMW M4 GT3)
1st place DTM Team classification (Sheldon van der Linde, Philipp Eng)
ADAC GT Masters (2 wins)
38th place 24h race Dubai

2023

DTM (2 wins)

2024

DTM (4 wins)
1st place DTM Team classification (Marco Wittmann, Sheldon van der Linde, René Rast)

Results

ADAC GT Masters

(key)

Year	Entrant	Car	No	Driver	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	Pos	Points
2012	Schubert Motorsport	BMW Z4 GT3	19	Abdulaziz Al Faisal Mirko Bortolotti					SAC 1 25	SAC 2 3	NÜR 1 14	NÜR 2 16									29th	15
			19	Max Partl Jörg Weidinger															HOC 1 23	HOC 2 20	NC	0
			20	Claudia Hürtgen Dominik Schwager	OSC 1 2	OSC 2 11	ZAN 1 16	ZAN 2 2	SAC 1 Ret	SAC 2 6	NÜR 1 6	NÜR 2 6	SPL 1 17	SPL 2 10	LAU 1 8	LAU 2 2	NÜR 1 14	NÜR 2 7	HOC 1 1	HOC 2 4	5th	126
2013	PIXUM Team Schubert	BMW Z4 GT3	19	Claudia Hürtgen Dominik Baumann																	5th	148
			20	Max Sandritter
			20	Jörg Müller
			20	Jens Klingmann
2014	PIXUM Team Schubert	BMW Z4 GT3	19	Claudia Hürtgen Dominik Baumann
2014	PIXUM Team Schubert	BMW Z4 GT3	20	Max Sandritter Jens Klingmann
2015	BMW Sports Trophy Team Schubert	BMW Z4 GT3	9	Claudia Hürtgen	OSC 1 6	OSC 1 5	SPL 1 8	SPL 1 9	SPA 1 5	SPA 1 6	LAU 1 3	LAU 1 8	NÜR 1 6	NÜR 2 Ret	SAC 1 2	SAC 2 14	ZAN 1 13	ZAN 2 Ret	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 DNS	11th	91
			9	Jesse Krohn
			9	Uwe Alzen
			9	Niklas Mackschin
			80	Dominik Baumann
			80	Jens Klingmann
			80	Bruno Spengler
2016	Schubert Motorsport	BMW M6 GT3	19	Claudia Hürtgen
			19	Niklas Mackschin
			19	Jeroen den Boer
			20	Jesse Krohn
			20	Martin Tomczyk
			20	Louis Delétraz
			20	António Félix da Costa
2018	Honda Team Schubert	Honda NSX GT3	9	Christopher Dreyspring Giorgio Maggi	OSC 1 Ret	OSC 2 24	MST 1 24	MST 2 DSQ	SPL 1 17	SPL 2 26	NÜR 1 6	NÜR 2 23	ZAN 1 16	ZAN 2 22	SAC 1 25	SAC 2 17	HOC 1 Ret	HOC 2 23			34th	8
2018	Honda Team Schubert	Honda NSX GT3	10	Philipp Frommenwiler Esteban Guerrieri					SPL 1 28	SPL 2 22											NC	0
2020	Schubert Motorsport	BMW M6 GT3	9	Joel Eriksson Aidan Read
2020	Schubert Motorsport	BMW M6 GT3	10	Henric Skoog Nick Yelloly Jesse Krohn Sheldon van der Linde
2021	Schubert Motorsport	BMW M6 GT3	10	Jesse Krohn Nick Yelloly	OSC 1 4	OSC 2 2	SPL 1 Ret	SPL 2 3	ZAN 1 3	ZAN 2 Ret	LAU 1 7	LAU 2 11	SAC 1 10	SAC 2 DSQ	HOC 1 22	HOC 1 Ret	NÜR 1 9	NÜR 2 8			8th	104

Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

Year	Car	Drivers	Races	Wins	Poles	F/Laps	Podiums	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2022	BMW M4 GT3	Sheldon van der Linde	16	3	2	2	6	164	1st	1st
2022	BMW M4 GT3	Philipp Eng	16	0	0	0	0	64	14th	1st
2023	BMW M4 GT3	Sheldon van der Linde	16	1	1	2	4	151	4th	4th
		René Rast	14	1	2	1	4	140	5th
		Dries Vanthoor	2	0	0	0	0	7	29th
2024	BMW M4 GT3	Sheldon van der Linde	16	1	0	0	1	142	6th	1st
		René Rast	16	2	0	0	4	172	4th
		Marco Wittmann	16	1	0	0	2	110	12th

References

^ "Racehistory: Schubert Motorsport". Schubert Motorsport. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
^ "About Us: Schubert Motorsport". Schubert Motorsport. Retrieved 24 May 2016.
^ "Schubert Motorsport returning to ADAC GT Masters this year with two BWM M6 GT3s". Schubert Motorsport. Retrieved 28 Feb 2021.

[1] "Racehistory: Schubert Motorsport". Schubert Motorsport. Retrieved 24 May 2016.

[2] "About Us: Schubert Motorsport". Schubert Motorsport. Retrieved 24 May 2016.

[3] "Schubert Motorsport returning to ADAC GT Masters this year with two BWM M6 GT3s". Schubert Motorsport. Retrieved 28 Feb 2021.

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