Rowe Racing

The Rowe Racing Mercedes SLS AMG GT3 at the 41. ADAC Zurich 24h Rennen

Late 2010 Naundorf was contacted by ROWE Mineralölwerk GmbH CEO Michael Toe about entering a Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 in GT races. Naundorf worked with Florian Rhotert to enter ROWE Racing in the VLN, a championship solely racing at the Nürburgring Nordschleife.[6] The team entered three cars (one co-entered with Christian Mamerow) in the first race of the season, the 58th ADAC Westfalenfahrt. In the GT3 class the team entered two SLS AMG GT3 cars and one Porsche 911 GT3 Cup S. Only one SLS AMG GT3 took the start, which subsequently failed to finish. The Porsche finished the race in seventeenth place with drivers Michael Zehe, Alexander Roloff and Marco Schelp.[7] After the first race the team decided to no longer enter the Porsche and focusing on entering three Mercedes-Benz sportscars. In the second round of the season the co-entered Mamerow/ROWE Racing Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3 won the race with Mamerow and Armin Hahne driving.[8] The team with Zehe, Roloff and Roland Rehfeld won their second race near the end of the season during the 34th RCM DMV Grenzlandrennen[9] The teams best placed car in the 2011 24 Hours of Nürburgring finished seventeenth, the other two cars failed to finish.

Jan Seyffarth joined the team in VLN in 2012. Seyffarth and Roloff won the 52nd ADAC Reinoldus-Langstreckenrennen with only a tiny margin of 0.338 seconds.[10] When Thomas Jäger joined the team for the 6 hour ADAC Ruhr-Pokal-Rennen the team scored their second victory.[11] The 2013 24 Hours of Nürburgring was very successful for the German team. ROWE Racing finished third and fourth. For the 2013 season Seyffarth ran the VLN races with various teammates. With Seyffarth, Lance David Arnold and Nico Bastian the team won the OPEL 6-Stunden ADAC Ruhr-Pokal-Rennen.[12] The team won the race again the following year with Jäger and Serffarth.[13] A new driver pairing of Christian Hohenadel and Maro Engel won the ROWE sponsored DMV 250-Meilen-Rennen in 2014[14] Renger van der Zande joined Engel and Seyffarth for the openingsrace of the VLN series. The race was cut short after a heavy crash by Jann Mardenborough in the GT Academy Nissan GT-R Nismo in which one spectator was killed.[15] ROWE Racing was in the lead when the race was red flagged.[16] Hohenadel and Klaus Graf scored the second season victory for the team at the 38th RCM DMV Grenzlandrennen[17] In 2015 the team also ran one round of the ADAC GT Masters series. Stef Dusseldorp and Nico Bastian represented the team at the Nürburgring finishing eleventh in race one and thirteenth in race two.

ROWE Racing first entered the Blancpain Endurance Series in 2015. The teams best finish was a fourth place at the 1000km Paul Ricard. At the prestigious 24 Hours of Spa the team (with Daniel Juncadella, Nico Bastian and Stef Dusseldorp) was in the lead at the 6 hour and 12 hour marks, scoring valuable points for the championship. A problem on the alternator caused the team to retire with less than sixty minutes to go.[18]

The Rowe Racing BMW M6 GT3 at the Spa 24 Hours.

Starting in 2016 the team received factory support by BMW Motorsport. The team entered two BMW F13 M6 GT3 cars in the Blancpain Endurance Series and Sprint Cup. After a fourth place at Silverstone the team picked up its first Blancpain Endurance Series win at the prestigious 24 Hours of Spa. In 2020 it won both the Nürburgring 24 Hours[1] and the Spa 24 Hours.[2]

The team participated in the 2021 Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters by fielding two BMW M6 GT3 cars full-time. The cars were driven by BMW factory drivers Timo Glock and Sheldon van der Linde, with the latter scoring the team's best result of the season by finishing in fourth place on one occasion. On 15 February 2022, the team announced that it would not return to the series in 2022 and instead use the new BMW M4 GT3 cars for endurance racing.[19] In 2023 it won the Spa 24 Hours for the third time.[3]

Since 2022 ROWE Racing runs the BMW M4 GT3.

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

24 Hours of Nürburgring
Year	Team	Car	Car No.	Drivers	Class	Laps	Pos.	Class Pos.
2010[21]	Team ROWE Motorsport	Porsche 911 GT3 Cup S	18	Michael Zehe Marco Schelp Alexander Roloff Mark Bullitt	SP9 GT3	150	8th	5th
		Audi TT	147	Franz Rohr Uwe Bleck Andreas Kast Michael Zehe	SP3T	61	DNF	DNF
2011	Mamerow/ROWE Racing	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	30	Christian Mamerow Armin Hahne Pierre Kaffer	SP9 GT3	49	DNF	DNF
	ROWE Racing		36	Alexander Roloff Roland Rehfeld Hubert Haupt Marco Schelp	SP9 GT3	58	DNF	DNF
			46	Michael Zehe Dominik Schwager Klaus Rader Mark Bullitt	SP9 GT3	145	17th	12th
2012[22]	ROWE Racing	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	21	Michael Zehe Marko Hartung Roland Rehfeld Mark Bullitt	SP9 GT3	150	10th	10th
			22	Klaus Graf Thomas Jäger Alexander Roloff Jan Seyffarth	SP9 GT3	120	DNF	DNF
2013[23]	ROWE Racing	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	21	Marko Hartung Kenneth Heyer Roland Rehfeld Christian Hohenadel	SP9 GT3	34	DNF	DNF
			22	Klaus Graf Nico Bastian Jan Seyffarth Thomas Jäger	SP9 GT3	87	3rd	3rd
			23	Lance David Arnold Alexander Roloff Jan Seyffarth Thomas Jäger	SP9 GT3	87	4th	4th
2014[24]	ROWE Racing	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	22	Michael Zehe Nico Bastian Maro Engel Christian Hohenadel	SP9 GT3	157	3rd	3rd
			23	Klaus Graf Jan Seyffarth Thomas Jäger Richard Göransson	SP9 GT3	147	DNF	DNF
2015[25]	ROWE Racing	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	22	Jan Seyffarth Thomas Jäger Maro Engel Renger van der Zande	SP9 GT3	61	DNF	DNF
			23	Klaus Graf Christian Hohenadel Thomas Jäger Nico Bastian	SP9 GT3	145	DNF	DNF
2016[26]	ROWE Racing	BMW M6 GT3	22	Klaus Graf Richard Westbrook Markus Palttala Nicky Catsburg	SP9 GT3	57	DNF	DNF
			23	Alexander Sims Philipp Eng Dirk Werner Maxime Martin	SP9 GT3	133	5th	5th
2017[27]	ROWE Racing	BMW M6 GT3	98	Markus Palttala Richard Westbrook Alexander Sims Nicky Catsburg	SP9	158	2nd	2nd
			99	Marc Basseng Philipp Eng Maxime Martin	SP9	157	10th	10th
2018[28]	ROWE Racing	BMW M6 GT3	98	John Edwards Richard Westbrook Tom Blomqvist Nicky Catsburg	SP9	82	DNF	DNF
			99	Alexander Sims Jesse Krohn Connor De Phillippi Martin Tomczyk	SP9	16	DNF	DNF
2019[29]	ROWE Racing	BMW M6 GT3	98	Connor De Phillippi Philipp Eng Tom Blomqvist Mikkel Jensen	SP9	22	DNF	DNF
			99	Nicky Catsburg Marco Wittmann Jesse Krohn John Edwards	SP9	8	DNF	DNF
2020	ROWE Racing	BMW M6 GT3	98	Tom Blomqvist Philipp Eng Marco Wittmann	SP9	85	4th	4th
			99	Nicky Catsburg Alexander Sims Nick Yelloly	SP9	85	1st	1st

(key) (Races in bold indicate pole position) (Races in italics indicate fastest lap)

Blancpain Endurance Series
Year	Car	No.	Drivers	1	2	3	4	5	Pos.	Pts
2015	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	98	Daniel Juncadella	MON 15	SIL 11		SPA		12th	45
			Indy Dontje			LES Ret
			Thomas Jäger
			Nicolai Sylvest					NUR 15
			Kenneth Heyer
			Miguel Toril
		99	Klaus Graf	MON 11	SIL 10
			Stef Dusseldorp			LES 4	SPA 16	NUR 19
			Nico Bastian
			Daniel Juncadella
2016	BMW M6 GT3	98	Klaus Graf	MON Ret
			Lucas Luhr			LES Ret
			Stef Dusseldorp		SIL 12		SPA 41
			Jens Klingmann			LES Ret
			Nick Catsburg				SPA 41
			Dirk Werner			LES Ret
		99
			Dirk Werner	MON Ret
			Philipp Eng		SIL 4	LES Ret	SPA 1
			Alexander Sims
			Maxime Martin
			Stef Dusseldorp			LES Ret