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Schubert Motorsport

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, 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.

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, 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

2003

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)

2005

2006

2007

2008

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)
  • 25th place and class win 24h race Nürburgring (Anders Buchardt, Nils Tronrud, Michael Aurienma, John Mayes, BMW 320d)

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

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

2015

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

2016

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

2017

2018

  • ADAC GT Masters
  • Competed as Honda customer team

2019

  • (One-year hiatus from racing)

2020

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

2021

  • ADAC GT Masters
  • 20th place 24h race Nürburgring

2022

2023

  • DTM (2 wins)

2024

2025

2026

  • DTM
  • ADAC GT Masters
  • GT World Challenge Asia (via collaboration with BMW M Team Studie)

Results

ADAC GT Masters

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24 Hours of Nürburgring

24 Hours of Spa

Dubai 24 Hour

Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

References