Team Rosberg

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| name = DEU FIN Team Rosberg Rosberg X Racing | founded = 1994 | principal = FIN Keke Rosberg DEU Arno Zensen GER Nico Rosberg | current series = | former series = DTM Super Tourenwagen Cup F3 Euroseries German Formula 3 A1 Grand Prix Formula BMW ADAC FIA GT3 European Championship ADAC GT Masters |current drivers = | driver titles = 2002 German F3 (Gary Paffett) 2002 Formula BMW ADAC (Nico Rosberg) 2017, 2019, 2020 DTM (René Rast) | team titles = 2002 German F3 2017 DTM Team Rosberg GmbH is a motor racing organisation that competes in single-seater and touring car disciplines in Europe. It was founded in 1994 by former Formula One world champion Keke Rosberg, of Finland. It is headquartered at Neustadt an der Weinstraße in Germany, and competes under a German racing licence.

Touring cars (1995–present)

After his retirement from Formula One in 1986, Keke Rosberg stayed involved in racing, competing with Peugeot's World Sports Car Championship operation in the early 1990s. He entered Germany's top-level touring car championship – the DTM – in 1992, driving first for Mercedes-AMG, and then for Opel Team Joest.

The DTM and ITC

It was in 1994 that he decided to begin the transition into team ownership, and the newly formed Team Rosberg became part of Opel's DTM program in 1995. In this first year, Keke Rosberg continued driving alongside reigning champion Klaus Ludwig in a pair of Calibra V6 coupes. The Calibra was not as competitive as the Mercedes C-Klasse; Ludwig achieved Opel's only race win of the season on his way to 3rd in the drivers' championship, and Team Rosberg was ranked in 6th place in the teams' standings.

In 1996, Rosberg retired from driving to concentrate on team management. As the DTM evolved into the short-lived International Touring car Championship, Ludwig moved to another Opel squad Zakspeed. JJ Lehto, managed by Rosberg at the time joined the team along with Hans-Joachim Stuck. Stuck won in Helsinki and finished in 6th place in the standings. Lehto achieved several podiums but failed to win a race.

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Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft and International Touring car Championship results	Year	Series	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.	1995	DTM	ITC	1996	ITC
Opel Calibra V6	DEU Klaus Ludwig	2	0		80	3rd	4th
FIN Keke Rosberg	0	0		17	18th
Opel Calibra V6	DEU Klaus Ludwig	0	0		21	14th	8th
FIN Keke Rosberg	0	0		3	20th
Opel Calibra V6	FIN Jyrki Järvilehto	0	0		148	5th	4th
DEU Hans-Joachim Stuck	2	1		112	9th
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Super Touring

After the collapse of the ITC, Team Rosberg transferred to the Super Tourenwagen Cup, Germany's Supertouring series. Rosberg managed Nissan's factory program in 1997 and 1998, with a pair of Nissan Primeras for Roland Asch and Sascha Maassen. Asch was the highest ranked Nissan driver, finishing eighth in the 1997 championship. 1998 was no different; Asch again finished eighth overall, and Maassen's replacement, Michael Krumm, finished ninth.

When Nissan's factory participation in the STC came to an end, Rosberg took a sabbatical from touring cars in 1999 and became involved in formula racing for the first time.

The reborn DTM

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Team Rosberg promptly took the opportunity to participate in the DTM again when it was recreated at the turn of the millennium. While it might have been expected to renew its association with Opel, it instead partnered with Mercedes-AMG. It was one of four teams running CLK DTMs, with Darren Turner and Pedro Lamy on driving duty. It was a respectable season, in which Rosberg was classified 7th in the teams' standings, while Lamy and Turner were classified 13th and 14th overall.

In 2001, with only the factory AMG team running 2001-spec CLKs, good results were harder to find. The lack of success prompted Lamy to leave to team, with David Saelens taking his place. Turner was the highest placed of the three drivers, in 15th position overall, and Rosberg was left in 8th place in the teams' standings.

The next two years saw a continuation of Rosberg's position as a Mercedes team running year-old cars, with two cars for Stefan Mücke and Christijan Albers in 2002, and two cars for Mücke (later replaced by Patrick Huisman) and Gary Paffett in 2003. Albers and Paffett both graduated to the factory AMG line-up in 2003 and 2004 respectively, and Paffett became the DTM champion in 2005.

When the relationship between Rosberg and Mercedes ended after the 2004 season, it spent 2005 away from touring cars, while considering alternative programs. One such option, which did not come to fruition, was the possibility of running the Prodrive-built Aston Martin DBR9 GT1 car in the FIA GT Championship.

The hiatus was ended with the opportunity to return to the DTM, not as a Mercedes customer, but as an Audi customer in 2006. Rosberg ran a brace of 2005-spec A4 saloons for Frank Stippler and Timo Scheider, which resulted in 4th position in the teams' standings and 10th in the drivers' championship for Scheider.

In 2007, Team Rosberg ran Mike Rockenfeller and Lucas Luhr to 12th and 17th in the Drivers' Championship. Luhr's lack of results (he scored only one point) resulted in him returning to the American Le Mans Series, where he was considerably more successful, becoming 2008 LMP1 champion with the Audi R10.

Team Rosberg has continued to race Audi cars in DTM, with 2019 as its most successful recent season. René Rast won 7 races throughout the nine race weekends, Jamie Green won 1 race, helping the team to first in that year's championship.

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Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters results	Year	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.	2000	2001	2002	2003	2004	2006	2007	2008	2009	2010	2011	2012	2013	2014	2015	2016	2017	2018	2019	2020	2021	2022
AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	PRT Pedro Lamy	0	0	0	39	13th	6th
GBR Darren Turner	0	0	0	19	14th
AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	PRT Pedro Lamy	0	0	0	12	16th	8th
GBR Darren Turner	0	0	0	15	15th
AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	NLD Christijan Albers	0	0	0	5	12th	6th
DEU Stefan Mücke	0	0	0	0	NC
AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	GBR Gary Paffett	0	0	0	4	11th	5th
DEU Stefan Mücke	0	0	0	0	NC
NLD Patrick Huisman	0	0	0	0	NC
AMG-Mercedes CLK-DTM	CZE Jarek Janis	0	0	0	0	NC	NC
DEU Bernd Mayländer	0	0	0	0	NC
Audi A4 DTM 2005	DEU Timo Scheider	0	0	0	12	10th	4th
DEU Frank Stippler	0	0	0	3	14th
Audi A4 DTM 2005	DEU Mike Rockenfeller	0	0	0	11	12th	6th
DEU Lucas Luhr	0	0	0	1	17th
Audi A4 DTM 2007	GER Mike Rockenfeller	0	0	0	6	11th	7th
GER Markus Winkelhock	0	0	0	6	12th
Audi A4 DTM 2008	GER Mike Rockenfeller	0	0	0	4	14th	7th
GER Markus Winkelhock	0	0	0	11	10th
Audi A4 DTM 2008	GER Markus Winkelhock	0	0	0	7	12th	8th
GBR Katherine Legge	0	0	0	0	NC
Audi A4 DTM 2008	POR Filipe Albuquerque	0	0	0	9	12th	6th
ITA Edoardo Mortara	1	0	0	21	9th
Audi A5 DTM	ITA Edoardo Mortara	2	1	0	82	5th	4th
POR Filipe Albuquerque	0	0	0	26	11th
Audi RS5 DTM	ITA Edoardo Mortara	0	0	0	3	21st	11th
POR Filipe Albuquerque	0	0	0	16	18th
Audi RS5 DTM	GBR Jamie Green	0	0	0	43	10th	7th
SWI Nico Müller	0	0	1	10	19th
Audi RS5 DTM	SWI Nico Müller	0	0	0	26	21st	5th
GBR Jamie Green	4	2	3	150	2nd
Audi RS5 DTM	FRA Adrien Tambay	0	0	0	40	18th	4th
GBR Jamie Green	1	2	3	145	3rd
GER René Rast	0	0	0	8	23rd
Audi RS5 DTM	GER René Rast	2	3	4	179	1st	1st
GBR Jamie Green	3	2	5	173	3rd
Audi RS5 DTM	GER René Rast	7	2	1	251	2nd	3rd
GBR Jamie Green	0	0	1	27	18th
Audi RS5 Turbo DTM 2019	BRA Pietro Fittipaldi	0	0	2	22	15th	1st
GER René Rast	7	8	2	322	1st
GBR Jamie Green	1	2	0	115	8th
Audi RS5 Turbo DTM 2020	GER René Rast	7	7	7	353	1st	2nd
GBR Jamie Green	0	0	1	98	8th
Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo	SWI Nico Müller	0	0	2	56	10th	8th
USA Dev Gore	0	0	0	0	22nd
GER Christopher Haase	0	0	0	1	21st
Audi R8 LMS GT3 Evo II	USA Dev Gore	0	0	0	30	17th	5th
SWI Nico Müller	1	1	0	105	7th
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Formula racing (1999–2005)

When Team Rosberg left the Super Tourenwagen Cup, it made the jump to formula racing. In 1999, it began a dual program at national level in Germany, with entry into Formula Three and the first iteration of Formula BMW. In the German F3 Championship, it ran future DTM and prototype driver Pierre Kaffer to 8th place in the standings, while its three-car Formula BMW line-up resulted in 2nd and 3rd in the championship for Giorgio Mecataff and Hannu Wiinikainen.

During its touring car return in 2000, Rosberg maintained its presence in formula racing. Hannu Wiinikainen graduated to the two-car F3 team, and the FBMW team was expanded to four cars. It again took the runner-up position in the drivers' championship, this time with Kimmo Liimatainen. It also ran future Formula One driver Christian Klien. Klien led the FBMW line-up in 2001, and finished 3rd in the championship. ::figure[src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e7/Nico_Rosberg_Formel_BMW(ThKraft).jpg" caption="Nico Rosberg, 2002 FBMW ADAC champion"] ::

That year also saw the debut in the German F3 Championship of future DTM champion Gary Paffett. He stayed with Rosberg in 2002 and won the drivers' championship. Rosberg also secured the teams' title in what became its most successful season. In Formula BMW ADAC, Nico Rosberg won the championship in his rookie season, driving for his father's team under the banner of VIVA Racing. When Rosberg's Formula 3 team moved to the new Euroseries in its inaugural year, Nico graduated with it, and stayed for two years before moving on to GP2 in 2005.

Team Rosberg took on Austria's A1 Grand Prix franchise in 2005, but Austria ended its involvement after one season, due to a lack of results. Rosberg's entry finished 19th in the standings. At the same time, Rosberg ended its participation in Formula BMW ADAC and the F3 Euroseries at the end of 2005, concentrating instead on its DTM association with Audi.

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A1 Grand Prix results	Year	Car	Team	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	T.C.	2005-06
Lola-Zytek	AUT A1 Team Austria	0	0	0	14	19th
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Formula Three Euroseries results	Year	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.	2003	2004	2005
Dallara F303-Spiess Opel	FIN Nico Rosberg	1	1	2	45	8th	6th
AUT Andreas Zuber	0	0	0	2	24th
Dallara F303-Spiess Opel	FIN Nico Rosberg	3	2	2	70	4th	6th
AUT Andreas Zuber	0	0	0	0	NC
Dallara F303-Spiess Opel	NLD Giedo van der Garde	0	1	1	34	9th	7th
JPN Kohei Hirate	0	0	0	18	12th
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Formula Three Special races results	Year	Car	Race	Driver	Pole	Fast lap	Pos.	2003	2004	2005
Dallara F303-Spiess Opel	Masters of Formula 3	AUT Andreas Zuber	no	no	26th
Dallara F303-Spiess Opel	Masters of Formula 3	FIN Nico Rosberg	no	no	6th
AUT Andreas Zuber	no	no	25th
F3 Macau Grand Prix	FIN Nico Rosberg			NC
Bahrain F3 Superprix	FIN Nico Rosberg			2nd
Dallara F303-Spiess Opel	Masters of Formula 3	JPN Kohei Hirate	no	no	5th
NLD Giedo van der Garde	no	no	6th
F3 Macau Grand Prix	JPN Kohei Hirate			NC
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German Formula Three Championship results	Year	Car	Drivers	Wins	Poles	Fast laps	Points	D.C.	T.C.	1999	2000	2001	2002
Dallara F399-Sodemo Renault	DEU Pierre Kaffer	0	2	1	71.5	8th	7th
FIN Kari Mäenpää	0	0	0	2	21st
NLD Wouter van Eeuwijk	0	0	0	0	NC
Dallara F399-Sodemo Renault	FIN Kari Mäenpää	0	0	0	15	21st	15th
FIN Hannu Viinikainen	0	0	0	1	28th
Dallara F301-Sodemo Renault	GBR Gary Paffett	1	1	2	123	6th	6th
FRA Laurent Delahaye	0	0	0	4	26th
Dallara F302-Spiess Opel	GBR Gary Paffett	7	6	6	83	1st	1st
FIN Kimmo Liimatainen	1	1	0	22	10th
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• D.C. = Drivers' Championship position, T.C. = Teams' Championship position.

Timeline

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	A1 GP
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References

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