Racing Bart Mampaey (formerly Juma Racing) is a racing team based in

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that runs the BMW Team RBM operation in the

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. Previously the team had been racing in the

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and

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History

The team was formed as Juma Racing in 1974 by Julien Mampaey, the father of current team principal Bart Mampaey. Among their achievements were three wins with BMW in the

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, in 1977, 1982 and 1983. Bart Mampaey went on to create his own RBM team in 1994 which started competing in the BMW Compact Cup. They finished first and second in the Group N Spa 24 Hours in 1997, and ran the BMW Fina Bastos Team to overall victory in 1998, with Marc Duez,

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and Alain Cudini.

European Touring Car Championship

Team RBM started racing in the

in 2002, fielding a BMW 320i for Swede

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under the name BMW Team Belgium, who scored three podiums and finished sixth in the standings.

Andy Priaulx Andrew Graham Priaulx, MBE ( born 8 August 1974) is a British professional racing driver from Guernsey. In 2019 he raced for Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and Cyan Racing Lynk & Co in the FIA World Tou ...

joined the team for 2003 and the team claimed three race wins under the new banner of BMW Team UK. Priaulx went on to win the drivers title the following year, when it ran a second 320i for

Kurt Mollekens Kurt Mollekens (born 8 March 1973 in Bonheiden) is a Belgian race car driver and team owner. Mollekens debuted as a driver in top-level karting during 1990, staying there until 1992 when he moved up to Formula Ford. His debut Formula Ford year ...

under the BMW Team Belgium-Luxembourg banner.

World Touring Car Championship

The ETCC became the WTCC in

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and Priaulx became world champion, before successfully defending his crown again in

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and

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. Occasionally the team has run a second car, once for Dutchman

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in 2005, for Dane

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at Macau in 2006 and for Swede

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and Macau in 2007. In

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, BMW scaled down to a two car effort, with Andy Priaulx and

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driving. At the end of 2010 BMW Motorsport stopped its WTCC commitment to focus on its DTM return. RBM was responsible for the design, development and construction of 52 cars for the MINI Challenge, together with the production of numerous MINI Challenge kits for the Belgian, Luxembourg, German and other international MINI championships.

Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters

At the end of 2010 BMW announced that it would return in the DTM for the 2012 season. RBM was part of the building and developing of the new BMW M3 DTM before running a pair of them in

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. The two drivers for the season were

and

, who both had previously been driving for RBM in the WTCC. At the penultimate round of the season in Valencia Farfus scored the first win for the team. He finished seventh in the final drivers’ standings, as second of the BMW drivers, collecting the unofficial title of ‘Rookie of the Year’. During the

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season Farfus was able to collect three wins and 5 podiums which allowed him to finish second in the drivers’ standings. That season RBM also managed to finish runner-up in the teams’ classification. From 2017 on BMW decided to reduce the number of cars it entered to 6 distributed over two teams. Therefore, both BMW Team RBM and BMW Team RMG entered a third car under the BMW Team RMR banner. Between 2014 and 2019 RBM scored five more wins as well as several more podiums in the DTM.

Results & Achievements

Complete Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results

( key) * Season still in progress. ^† Driver did not finish, but completed 75% of the race distance.

External links

Profile of Team RBM by BMW Car Club (GB) South East RegionProfile at fiawtcc.com
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