Team Schubert Banks Big Points as BMW M2 Cup Roars In

The BMW M2 Cup rolled onto the Lausitzring for its very first outing, and Schubert Motorsport made the most of a demanding DTM weekend in Germany. Marco Wittmann steered the #11 Schaeffler BMW M4 GT3 EVO to fifth and eighth across the two races, while Kelvin van der Linde guided the #3 Shell car to tenth on Saturday and ninth on Sunday. Four top-ten results pushed the squad to the front of the team standings, and the new one-make series announced itself in style.

Pace proved hard to find on Saturday, yet Wittmann and his crew engineered a storming recovery once more. With the track drying after a rain shower, he rolled the dice on slick tyres and carved his way from 18th on the grid up to fifth. Sunday brought a solid eighth, leaving him fourth in the drivers’ table with 71 points ahead of his home outing at the Norisring. Van der Linde climbed through the field in both races to sit eighth overall on 54 points, and the team now heads the standings on 119.

Veteran Michael Schrey was the standout figure as the BMW M2 Cup launched its support-series campaign. Behind the wheel of the #2 BMW M2 Racing machine run by Hofor Racing by Bonk Motorsport, he converted pole into back-to-back wins. The young chargers filled the remaining rostrum spots, with Moritz Groneck and Niklas Hirsch taking the honours on Saturday, then Christopher Holst and Tatu Siipola following Schrey home on Sunday. The series now rolls on to the Norisring, Nürburgring, Sachsenring and Hockenheimring.

In the ADAC GT Masters, the BMW M4 GT3 EVO swept both races at the circuit. Juliano and Sandro Holzem claimed their maiden victory on Saturday in the #56 Schubert Motorsport entry, with Leyton Fourie and Tim Zimmermann completing a BMW one-two in the FK Performance Motorsport car. The German-South African pairing went one step further on Sunday, taking the win and moving to the head of the drivers’ standings. At the season’s midpoint, FK Performance Motorsport tops the team table.

Reflecting afterwards, the camp was upbeat. The BMW M Motorsport leadership praised sharp strategy and rapid pit work for rescuing the DTM result, hailed the GT Masters double and welcomed the M2 Cup’s promising start. Team principal Torsten Schubert felt his crew extracted the best from the opportunities on offer, while Wittmann called qualifying the recurring weak spot that forces bolder race-day gambles. Van der Linde branded it a hard graft in the heat but was content to bank crucial points before turning his attention to learning the Norisring.