Rutronik Racing

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Flag of Germany.svg Rutronik Racing
Porsche rutronik256.jpg
Founded2010
Founder(s)Hans-Christoph Behler
Base Remchingen
Current series GT World Challenge
Former series GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
Current drivers Flag of France.svg Julien Andlauer
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Patric Niederhauser
Flag of Germany.svg Sven Müller
Drivers'
Championships		1
Website https://rutronikracing.com

Rutronik Racing also known as HCB-Rutronik Racing is a German racing team from Remchingen. The team mainly competes in the GT World Challenge. The team was originally founded by Hans-Christoph Behler as HCB Management Gmbh, but was renamed following sponsorship from electronic components distrubutor Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH [1]

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History

Founded in 2010, the team competed in the FIA GT World Cup in 2018 as Audi Sport Team Rutronik. In 2019, the team entered the ADAC GT Masters. The team was a customer sport team from Audi Sport Customer Racing and used 10 Audi GT3 cars in two championships. [2]

The racing team won the driver and team classification in its debut season in 2019.

Rutronik Racing will field two Porsche 911 GT3 R in 2024.

Results

ADAC GT Masters

YearCarDriversPointsD.C.T.C.
2019 Audi R8 LMS Evo Flag of South Africa.svg Kelvin van der Linde
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Patric Niederhauser 		2051st1st
Flag of Germany.svg Dennis Marschall
Flag of Germany.svg Carrie Schreiner 		2224th
2020 Audi R8 LMS Evo Flag of South Africa.svg Kelvin van der Linde
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Patric Niederhauser 		1604th4th
Flag of Germany.svg Dennis Marschall 3324th
Flag of Germany.svg Carrie Schreiner 2428th
Flag of Germany.svg Hamza Owega936th
2021 Audi R8 LMS Evo Flag of Germany.svg Dennis Marschall
Flag of Germany.svg Kim-Luis Schramm 		8511th8th
Flag of Germany.svg Elia Erhart1931st
Flag of Germany.svg Pierre Kaffer 1138th
Flag of Italy.svg Mattia Drudi 839th
2022 Audi R8 LMS Evo II Flag of Germany.svg Dennis Marschall
Flag of Germany.svg Kim-Luis Schramm 		1206th5th
Flag of Germany.svg Luca Engstler
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Patric Niederhauser 		10414th

Former series results

FIA GT World Cup

YearCarDriversPosition
2016 Audi R8 LMS Flag of Germany.svg Fabian Plentz8th
Flag of Germany.svg Tommy Tulpe18th
2017 Audi R8 LMS Flag of Brazil.svg Lucas di Grassi DNF
Flag of Germany.svg Fabian PlentzDNS
2018 Audi R8 LMS Flag of Germany.svg Christopher Haase 6th
2019 Audi R8 LMS Evo Flag of South Africa.svg Kelvin van der Linde 10th

24 Hours of Spa

YearCarDriversPosition
2021 Porsche 911 GT3 R Flag of France.svg Kévin Estre
Flag of Austria.svg Richard Lietz
Flag of Germany.svg Sven Müller 		DNF

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References

  1. ↑ "Über uns – Rutronik Racing". rutronikracing.com. Retrieved 2024-05-09.
  2. ↑ "Porträtseite von HCB-Rutronik Racing - Geschichte, News, Fotos und Videos". de.motorsport.com (in German). Retrieved 2022-07-08.
  3. ↑ "Rutronik Racing Results | Motorsport Stats". motorsportstats.com. Retrieved 2022-07-08.

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