Founded | 1993 |
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Team principal(s) | Will Turner |
Current series | IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge Fanatec GT World Challenge GT America |
Current drivers | Robby Foley Patrick Gallagher Jens Klingmann Jake Walker Robert Megennis Francis Selldorff Dillon Machavern Justin Rothberg |
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.
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.
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.
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
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