Turner Motorsport (Also known as TMS Racing , Turner motorsport(s) or Turner racing ) is a professional sports car racing team located in Newton, NH, and is the most prolific BMW race team in the world. As of May 2024 Turner motorsport has competed in over 557 professional sport car races with BMW.
Turner motorsport has exclusively raced BMW models professionally since 1998, including the BMW 3 Series , BMW M3 coupes, the M6, and starting in 2022 the M4GT3 and M4GT4 in IMSA and SRO GT World Challenge. Previously (1998-2004) , the team was highly successful in the Speed World Challenge Touring Car series, winning 2 Championships (2003 and 2004) Since then, Turner Motorsport has won 7 more professional sportscar racing championships making it a total of 9.
2011 Rolex Sports Car, driven by Auberlen, Dalla Lana, and Hand
Turner Motorsport won the 2003 and 2004 Speed World Challenge Touring Car Championships, breaking an eight-year Honda / Acura domination of the series. After winning the championship the second consecutive time, Turner Motorsport left World Challenge to race in the 2005 Grand-Am Cup series. Turner Motorsport won both the 2006 Grand Am Cup GS (BMW E46 M3) and ST Driver and Team Championships (BMW E46 330i) and the 2007 Grand Am Cup ST Championship (BMW E46 330i). Turner Motorsport was the first team to win dual GS and ST driver and team championships in the same season. A fourth Grand Am Championship came in 2011 (BMW E92 M3) for driver Paul Dalla Lana. Dalla Lana was also honored by BMW with the 2011 BMW Sports Trophy, given to the most successful BMW privateer racer in the world.
2020 IMSA SportsCar Championship Car, driven by Foley, Machavern and Yelloly
In 2014, Turner Motorsport switched from the Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series to its successor, the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (a merger of Grand-Am and the American LeMans Series). Turner competed in the GT Daytona class (GTD) in the Championship with a GTD / GT3 BMW Z4, and took class wins at the Monterey Grand Prix at WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, as well as the famous Six Hours of Watkins Glen, the first major endurance win for the team, and followed up with wins at Road America and Virginia. The strength of those four wins was enough to propel driver Dane Cameron and Markus Palttala to the Driver's Championship in 2014 and Turner to the Team Championship.[1]
In 2023 Turner Motorsport won the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Team and Drivers Championship (Foley and Barletta) racing a BMW G82 M4GT4 along with the IMSA VP Racing Sportscar challenge Team and Drivers (Selldorff) Championship
In 2024, the team competes with a BMW M4 GT3 in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Two M4GT3's in SRO's Fanatec GT World Challenge and GT America and a run a pair of BMW M4GT4s in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge.
List of championshipsedit
2019 Michelin Pilot Challenge Car, driven by Barletta and Foley
2003 Speed World Challenge Driver 2004 Speed World Challenge Driver 2006 Grand-Am Cup ST Driver 2006 Grand-Am Cup Team 2006 Grand-Am Cup GS Driver 2007 Grand-Am Cup ST Driver 2011 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Driver 2011 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge Team 2014 Tudor United SportsCar GT-Daytona Driver 2014 Tudor United SportsCar GT-Daytona Team 2023 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge GS Driver 2023 IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge GS Team 2023 IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge GSX Driver 2023 IMSA VP Racing SportsCar Challenge GSX Team
^Morgan, Brian (December 2014). "Down to the Wire". Roundel. 46 (12): 76. ISSN 0889-3225.
External linksedit
Official Site (Racing)
January 01, 1970
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