Team MTEK (commonly known as BMW Team MTEK) is a racing team located in

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History

Team MTEK was founded in 2012 by Ernest Knoors. After a stint with the

BMW Sauber BMW has been involved in Formula One in a number of capacities since the inauguration of the World Drivers' Championship in . The company entered occasional races in the 1950s and 1960s (often under Formula Two regulations), before building th ...

squad Knoors, joined

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. With Ferrari the Dutchman was responsible for the customer engines supplied to

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and other teams. He returned to BMW in 2012 forming Team MTEK, a BMW supported

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entry. After BMW's return to DTM in 2012, Team MTEK joined in the 2013 season along with BMW factory supported entry's by

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, Team RBM and

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2013 season

For its debut season the team started with two rookies to the series,

Timo Glock Timo Glock (born 18 March 1982) is a German professional racing driver, and BMW Motorsport works driver. He raced in Formula One for the Jordan, Toyota, Virgin Racing and Marussia F1 teams. He finished 10th in the Drivers' Championship in both ...

and

Marco Wittmann Marco Wittmann (born 24 November 1989) is a German professional racing driver, and BMW Motorsport works driver. He currently resides in Markt Erlbach. Wittmann has competed in such series as Formula Three Euroseries and Formula BMW ADAC/Europe. ...

. Glock left

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in 2012 to join the DTM series in 2013. Wittmann was a former

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race winner who converted to GT racing in 2012. In 2012 Wittmann ran the VLN championship in a BMW supported entry. The teams first (double) podium came at the

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scoring a second (Wittmann) and third (Glock) finish. Glock also won the season finale at the

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. Team MTEK finished seventh in the team championship, third out of four BMW teams.

2014 season

For 2014 the team retained Glock but replaced Wittmann by

António Félix da Costa António Maria de Mello Breyner Félix da Costa (born 31 August 1991) is a Portuguese professional racing driver for the Porsche Formula E Team and the 2019–20 Formula E Drivers' Champion. He won the Macau Grand Prix invitational Formula Thre ...

. BMW replaced the BMW M3 DTM with the BMW M4 DTM. The team struggled with the new car. Glock's best result was a third place at the

. Félix da Costa struggled scoring points in his rookie season, he did so on two occasions. The team finished eleventh in the team standings.

2015 season

Bruno Spengler Bruno Spengler (born August 23, 1983) is an Alsatian-born Canadian racing driver, currently racing for the BMW factory/works team. Nicknamed 'The Secret Canadian', he won the 2012 DTM Drivers' Championship. Career Early career Spengler was b ...

joined Team MTEK in 2015 coming over from Mercedes'

HWA Team HWA Team, also known as HWA RACELAB, is the auto racing team of HWA AG, a German company based in Affalterbach, that also develops and builds vehicles and components for Mercedes-AMG race cars. It is named after founder Hans-Werner Aufrecht. ...

. The 2012 season champion scored six podium finishes ending fifth in the drivers' championship. Glock scored a sole win at

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. The team finished fourth in the team standings.

Gallery

File:TimoGlockHungaroringDTM20142.jpg, Timo Glock at the

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2013 File:BMW M3 DTM (E92) of MTEK (10074890005).jpg, Marco Wittmann at

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References

External links

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Team MTEK on dtm.com

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