Mücke Motorsport (also known as ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg) is an

auto racing Auto racing (also known as car racing, motor racing, or automobile racing) is a motorsport involving the racing of automobiles for competition. In North America, the term is commonly used to describe all forms of automobile sport including non ...

team based in

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History

Single-seaters

Mücke Motorsport was formed by Peter Mücke in 1998 to run his son

Stefan Mücke Stefan Mücke (born 22 November 1981) is a German racing driver. Racing career Born in Berlin, Mücke started his racing career in 1998, when he won the Formula BMW ADAC series, with his father's Mücke Motorsport team, also making their debut. ...

in the German

Formula BMW Formula BMW was a junior racing formula for single seater cars. It was positioned at the bottom of the motorsport career ladder alongside the longer established Formula Ford category. Like Formula Ford, it was intended to function as the young ...

ADAC series, in which they were champions. Stefan and the team moved to German Formula Three in 1999, where the driver finished runner-up in 2001. Also in 2001,

Markus Winkelhock Markus Winkelhock (; born 13 June 1980) is a German professional racing driver. He is the son of Manfred Winkelhock and nephew of Joachim Winkelhock, both of whom were Formula One drivers in the 1980s. During his brief Formula One career he led th ...

joined the team. After Stefan left Formula 3 for the DTM in 2002, Winkelhock was joined by Sven Heidfeld and Marcel Lasée. The team moved to the new

Formula Three Euroseries The Formula 3 Euro Series was a European-based junior single seater formula for Formula Three chassis that was launched (in its current form) in 2003 as a merger of the French Formula Three Championship and German Formula Three Championship. The ...

in 2003, where

Christian Klien Christian Klien (born 7 February 1983) is an Austrian racing driver who competed in Formula One between and . Born and raised in Hohenems, Klien competed in Formula One for Jaguar, Red Bull and HRT, scoring 14 championship points across 51 ...

finished runner-up. Mücke competed in Formula BMW ADAC from 1998 to 2007.

Sebastian Vettel Sebastian Vettel (; born 3 July 1987) is a German racing driver who most recently competed in Formula One from to . Vettel won four Formula One World Drivers' Championship titles, which he won consecutively from to with Red Bull, and rema ...

won the title for the team in 2004. For 2010, Peter Mücke's partnership with

Ralf Schumacher Ralf Schumacher (born 30 June 1975) is a German former racing driver and sports broadcasting, broadcaster, who competed in Formula One from to . Schumacher won six Formula One Grands Prix across 11 seasons. Born and raised in North Rhine-Westp ...

sees the RSC Mücke Motorsport team enter the newly formed

GP3 Series The GP3 Series, or GP3 for short, was a single-seater motor racing series launched in 2010 as a feeder series for the GP2 Series, introduced by GP2 organiser Bruno Michel. GP3 followed the entire European leg of the Formula One series and the ...

. Dutchman

Renger van der Zande Renger is both a surname and a given name. Notable people with the name include: * Annemarie Renger (1919–2008), German politician * Thomas Renger (born 1972), German sitting volleyball player * Renger van der Zande (born 1986), Dutch racing driv ...

spearheads the driver line-up alongside compatriot

Nigel Melker Nigel Melker (born 25 January 1991) is a Dutch former racing driver. Career Karting Melker was born in Rotterdam. He began his motorsport career in karting in 2001, winning in the Dutch Mini Junior Cup. In 2005, he won the German Junior champi ...

and German

Tobias Hegewald Tobias Hegewald (born 3 August 1989 in Neuwied) is a German Auto racing, racing driver. Career Karting Hegewald spent three seasons racing in professional karting, including a 5th place in the 2002 Junior Monaco Kart Cup at Intercontinental A, ...

. The team operated in

Formula 4 FIA Formula 4 (F4) is an open-wheel racing car category intended for junior drivers. There is no global championship, but rather individual nations or regions can host their own championships in compliance with a universal set of rules and speci ...

from 2015 to 2021 before they closed their open-wheeler program citing cost concerns.

PHM Racing PHM Racing is a German auto racing team established by Paul Müller. It mainly competes in junior open-wheel racing series. History Born from the ashes of Mücke Motorsport's single-seater programme, which was disbanded at the end of 2021, PH ...

was created using assets and personnel left over from the program.

DTM

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The team began running Mercedes in the

Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters The Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters, commonly abbreviated as the DTM, is a sports car racing series sanctioned by ADAC. The series is based in Germany, with rounds elsewhere in Europe. The series currently races a modified version of Group GT3 gra ...

2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

with Stefan Mücke and Alexandros Margaritis as drivers. Mücke remained with the team in 2006 and was joined by Daniel la Rosa and

Susie Stoddart Suzanne Wolff ( Stoddart; born 6 December 1982) is a Scottish former professional racing driver and current managing director of F1 Academy. Wolff started in karting, before graduating to Formula Renault and Formula Three, then moving to ...

. In 2007 Stefan Mücke left the team and was replaced by

Mathias Lauda Mathias Lauda (born 30 January 1981) is an Austrian racing driver notable for winning the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship for Aston Martin Racing in the LMGTE Am category. He is the son of the late three-time Formula One world champion Niki ...

. La Rosa, Stoddart and Lauda left the team for 2008, and were replaced by

and

Maro Engel Maro René Engel (born 27 August 1985) is a Germans, German professional racing driver based in Monaco. He is a Mercedes-AMG factory driver since 2008 & brand ambassador since 2017. He is a FIA GT World Cup Champion (2015, 2024), Nürburgring 2 ...

. Lauda returned to partner Engel in 2009.

Former series results

Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

DTM Trophy

Italian F4 Championship

*He only drove for Mücke Motorsport in 3 of the 20 races.

ADAC Formula 4

Formula 4 UAE Championship

GP3 Series

In detail

( key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap)

FIA Formula 3 European Championship

D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.

ADAC Formel Masters

The team competed as ADAC Berlin-Brandenburg in 2010,2013-2014

Timeline

Notes

References

External links

*
Team profile on the DTM website
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