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| Founded | 1994 |
|---|---|
| Teamprincipal(s) |  Keke Rosberg Arno ZensenNico Rosberg |
| Former series | DTM Super Tourenwagen Cup F3 Euroseries German Formula 3 A1 Grand Prix Formula BMW ADAC FIA GT3 European Championship ADAC GT Masters |
| Teams' Championships | 2002German F3 2017DTM |
| Drivers' Championships | 2002German F3 (Gary Paffett) 2002Formula BMW ADAC (Nico Rosberg) 2017, 2019, 2020DTM (René Rast) |
Team Rosberg GmbH is a motor racing organisation that competes insingle-seater andtouring car disciplines inEurope. It was founded in 1994 by formerFormula One world championKeke Rosberg, ofFinland. It is headquartered atNeustadt an der Weinstraße inGermany, and competes under a German racing licence.
After his retirement from Formula One in 1986, Keke Rosberg stayed involved in racing, competing withPeugeot's World Sports Car Championship operation in the early 1990s. He entered Germany's top-leveltouring car championship – theDTM – in 1992, driving first forMercedes-AMG,[1] and then forOpelTeam Joest.
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 championKlaus Ludwig in a pair of Calibra V6 coupes.[2] 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-livedInternational Touring car Championship, Ludwig moved to another Opel squad Zakspeed.JJ Lehto, managed by Rosberg at the time joined the team along withHans-Joachim Stuck. Stuck won inHelsinki and finished in 6th place in the standings.[3] Lehto achieved several podiums but failed to win a race.
| Deutsche Tourenwagen Meisterschaft andInternational Touring car Championship results | |||||||||
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| Year | Series | Car | Drivers | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 1995 | DTM | Opel Calibra V6 | Klaus Ludwig[4] | 2 | 0 | 80 | 3rd | 4th | |
| Keke Rosberg[5] | 0 | 0 | 17 | 18th | |||||
| ITC | Opel Calibra V6 | Klaus Ludwig[4] | 0 | 0 | 21 | 14th | 8th | ||
| Keke Rosberg[5] | 0 | 0 | 3 | 20th | |||||
| 1996 | ITC | Opel Calibra V6 | Jyrki Järvilehto[6] | 0 | 0 | 148 | 5th | 4th | |
| Hans-Joachim Stuck[7] | 2 | 1 | 112 | 9th | |||||
After the collapse of the ITC, Team Rosberg transferred to theSuper Tourenwagen Cup, Germany's Supertouring series. Rosberg managedNissan's factory program in 1997 and 1998, with a pair ofNissan Primeras forRoland Asch andSascha Maassen.[2] 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.[8]
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.
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[9] teams runningCLK DTMs, withDarren Turner andPedro 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.[10]
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, withDavid 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.[11]
The next two years saw a continuation of Rosberg's position as a Mercedes team running year-old cars, with two cars forStefan Mücke andChristijan Albers in 2002, and two cars for Mücke (later replaced byPatrick Huisman) andGary 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.[12]
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 theProdrive-builtAston Martin DBR9 GT1 car in theFIA GT Championship.[13]
The hiatus was ended with the opportunity to return to the DTM, not as a Mercedes customer, but as anAudi customer in 2006. Rosberg ran a brace of 2005-spec A4 saloons forFrank Stippler andTimo Scheider, which resulted in 4th position in the teams' standings and 10th in the drivers' championship for Scheider.[14]
In 2007, Team Rosberg ranMike Rockenfeller andLucas Luhr to 12th and 17th in the Drivers' Championship. Luhr's lack of results (he scored only one point) resulted in him returning to theAmerican Le Mans Series, where he was considerably more successful, becoming 2008 LMP1 champion with theAudi 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.
When Team Rosberg left the Super Tourenwagen Cup, it made the jump toformula racing. In 1999, it began a dual program at national level in Germany, with entry intoFormula Three and the first iteration ofFormula 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.[2]
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 futureFormula One driverChristian Klien. Klien led the FBMW line-up in 2001, and finished 3rd in the championship.[16]
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That year also saw the debut in the German F3 Championship of future DTM championGary 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.[17] 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 newEuroseries in its inaugural year, Nico graduated with it, and stayed for two years before moving on toGP2 in 2005.
Team Rosberg took onAustria'sA1 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.[18] 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.
| A1 Grand Prix results[19] | |||||||
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| Year | Car | Team | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | T.C. |
| 2005-06 | Lola-Zytek |  A1 Team Austria | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 19th |
| Formula Three Euroseries results[20] | ||||||||
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| Year | Car | Drivers | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 2003 | Dallara F303-Spiess Opel | Nico Rosberg | 1 | 1 | 2 | 45 | 8th | 6th |
| Andreas Zuber | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 24th | |||
| 2004 | Dallara F303-Spiess Opel | Nico Rosberg | 3 | 2 | 2 | 70 | 4th | 6th |
| Andreas Zuber | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| 2005 | Dallara F303-Spiess Opel |  Giedo van der Garde | 0 | 1 | 1 | 34 | 9th | 7th |
 Kohei Hirate | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 12th | |||
| Formula Three Special races results | ||||||||
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| Year | Car | Race | Driver | Pole | Fast lap | Pos. | ||
| 2003 | Dallara F303-Spiess Opel | Masters of Formula 3 | Andreas Zuber[21] | no | no | 26th | ||
| 2004 | Dallara F303-Spiess Opel | Masters of Formula 3 | Nico Rosberg[22] | no | no | 6th | ||
| Andreas Zuber[21] | no | no | 25th | |||||
| F3 Macau Grand Prix | Nico Rosberg[22] | NC | ||||||
| Bahrain F3 Superprix | Nico Rosberg[22] | 2nd | ||||||
| 2005 | Dallara F303-Spiess Opel | Masters of Formula 3 | Kohei Hirate[23] | no | no | 5th | ||
| Giedo van der Garde[24] | no | no | 6th | |||||
| F3 Macau Grand Prix | Kohei Hirate[23] | NC | ||||||
| German Formula Three Championship results[25] | ||||||||
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| Year | Car | Drivers | Wins | Poles | Fast laps | Points | D.C. | T.C. |
| 1999 | Dallara F399-SodemoRenault | Pierre Kaffer | 0 | 2 | 1 | 71.5 | 8th | 7th |
| Kari Mäenpää | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 21st | |||
| Wouter van Eeuwijk | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | NC | |||
| 2000 | Dallara F399-SodemoRenault | Kari Mäenpää | 0 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 21st | 15th |
| Hannu Viinikainen | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 28th | |||
| 2001 | Dallara F301-SodemoRenault |  Gary Paffett | 1 | 1 | 2 | 123 | 6th | 6th |
 Laurent Delahaye | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 | 26th | |||
| 2002 | Dallara F302-Spiess Opel | Gary Paffett | 7 | 6 | 6 | 83 | 1st | 1st |
| Kimmo Liimatainen | 1 | 1 | 0 | 22 | 10th | |||
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| 95 | 96 | 97 | 98 | 99 | 00 | 01 | 02 | 03 | 04 | 05 | 06 | 07 | 08 | 09 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | |
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| Formulas | German F3 | F3 Euro Series | ||||||||||||||||||||
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