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.
On 8 August 2024, it was announced that Team RMG and BMW M Motorsport would part ways at the end of the 2024 season.
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 HOCRet LAU7 BRH4 SPL2 NOR2 NÜR3 ZANRet OSCRet VALRet HOC14 8th 69 2 Joey Hand HOC13 LAU14 BRH13 SPL9 NOR14 NÜR18 ZAN14 OSC11 VAL15† HOC8 20th 6 2013 BMW Team RMG BMW M3 DTM 15 Martin Tomczyk HOC13 BRH14 SPLRet LAU19 NORRet MSC17 NÜR5 OSC20† ZAN11 HOC19 19th 10 16 Andy Priaulx HOC17† BRH19 SPL19 LAU22 NOR9 MSC20 NÜR16 OSC19 ZAN19 HOC6 20th 10 2014 BMW Team RMG BMW M4 DTM 23 Marco Wittmann HOC1 OSC19 HUN1 NOR6 MSC4 SPL1 NÜR1 LAU6 ZAN2 HOC5 1st 156 23 Maxime Martin HOC20 OSC14 HUN6 NOR17 MSC1 SPL15 NÜR7 LAU14 ZAN6 HOCRet 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
Team history in DTM website