HTP Winward Motorsport

HTP Winward Motorsport
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Founded	2013
Nation
Founder(s)	Wim de Pundert Reynier de Pundert
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Former names
Baase	Altendiez, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany Houston, Texas, USA
Team principal(s)	Mickel Letter Norbert Brückner Christian Hohenadel
Current series	Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters IMSA SportsCar Championship GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup GT World Challenge America
Former series	ADAC Formula 4 24 Hours of Nürburgring Nürburgring Endurance Series ADAC GT4 Germany Michelin Pilot Challenge International GT Open ADAC GT Masters
Current drivers	Maximilian Götz Lucas Auer David Schumacher Lorenzo Ferrari Jens Liebhauser Russell Ward Philip Ellis Mikaël Grenier Marvin Dienst
Noted drivers
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Podiums
Poles
Fastest Laps
Teams' Championships
Drivers' Championships
First entry
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Website	https://htp-winward.de/

HTP Winward Motorsport also known as Team Mann-Filter, HTP Motorsport and Winward Racing is a German-American-based auto racing team. The team mainly competes in GT3 based series such as the GT World Challenge Europe. The team was founded after HTP Investment BV took over Heico Motorsport.

History

Background

Wim de Pundert was one of the founders of HTP Investment BV. Along with Klaas Meertens the duo bought, managed and sold various companies starting in 1990. The private equity company became more Germany focused when it acquired the Knaus Tabbert caravan manufacturers, Morelo Reisemobile caravan manufacturers and the Halberg-Guss foundry. It also owned Reum Kunststoff- und Metalltechnik GmbH which was sold to Grammer Interior Components in 2015.

Early beginnings

The racing team was founded in 2007 when father Wim and son Reynier de Pundert bought two Formula Gloria tube framed single-seaters. Reynier finished 8th in the amateur championship. The team returned the following season with Reynier winning the championship while Wim run only a partial season. In 2008 the team also fielded Christiaan Frankenhout in the international Gloria Scouting Cup where he finished third. After the demise of the short-lived single-seater series, the team entered the Dutch Renault Clio Cup for 2009, 2010 and 2011. During the seasons Reynier de Pundert did not score a podium finish in the overall classification. In 2009 the team also joined Dutch GT4 with an Aston Martin Vantage for Junior Strous. Strous won one race and scored four podium finishes.

Team HEICO Motorsport

The HTP Investments sponsored Heico Motorsport Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3.

Automotive tuning company Heico Sportiv ran racing cars since 1995. The German Volvo tuning company first entered a Volvo 850 in the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. The racing of various Volvo's ended in 2001 when the owners of Volvo, Premier Automotive Group, ended all customer and factory supported racing activities. Heico Sportiv restarted the racing programme for Volvo's, which were in-house developed, in 2007. The team focused on fuel efficiency with diesel and biofuel.

In late 2010 the team acquired two Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3. The team eventually entered three SLS AMG's in the 2011 ADAC GT Masters. Austrians Dominik Baumann and Harald Proczyk were the best placed Heico Motorsport drivers. Baumann and Proczyk scored four podium finishes placing them fifth in the series championship. Baumann also competed in the 2011 FIA GT3 European Championship with teammate Brice Bosi. At Circuit Paul Ricard the team scored the first ever GT3 race win for an SLS AMG. Heico Motorsport continued in 2012 winning the team championship in the FIA GT3 European Championship. Working with Charouz Racing System Baumann and Maximilian Buhk won the team championship.

HTP Motorsport

The Bentley Team HTP Bentley Continental GT3

HTP Investment BV has had sponsorship agreements with Heico Motorsport since the team entered GT3 racing in 2011. HTP Investment BV took over Heico Motorsport at the beginning of 2013. Heico Motorsport team principal Norbert Brückner remained as the principal of the new team. Winning the 2013 24 Hours of Spa and the following 1000km of the Nürburgring this was enough for Buhk to secure the 2013 Blancpain Endurance Series championship. HTP Motorsport won the In 2014 the best result for HTP Motorsport in the Blancpain Endurance Series was a second place at the Nürburgring. The team was more successful in the 2014 ADAC GT Masters. Maxi Buhk and Maxi Götz won at Oschersleben and EuroSpeedway Lausitz. Götz won the 2014 Blancpain Sprint Series with HTP Motorsport.

The team switched manufacturer for the 2015 racing season. In December 2014 it was announced that Bentley selected HTP Motorsport to run one of their factory supported GT3 programs. The team entered five new Bentley Continental GT3 cars. The Blancpain Endurance Series was unsuccessful with a new driver line up failing to provide results. A ninth place at the 2015 24 Hours of Spa for Vincent Abril, Mike Parisy and Harold Primat was the team's best result in the Endurance Series. Abril partnered with Buhk in the 2015 Blancpain Sprint Series winning two qualifying races and two main races. Along with four more podium this was enough to secure the drivers championship. Fellow HTP Motorsport driver Jules Szymkowiak also won the Silver Cup classification. In the 2015 ADAC GT Masters the team won a single race with Luca Stolz and Jeroen Bleekemolen winning at Oschersleben.

The Mercedes-AMG GT4 as raced by Dontje, Schneider and Viebahn as Spa.

The cooperation with Bentley lasted only one season. The team returned to Mercedes-Benz for 2016. The team entered four cars, in the Blancpain GT Series and at the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. The team opted not to continue in the ADAC GT Masters. Team owner Wim de Pundert also returned to the racing seat in the gentleman driver based 2016 Blancpain GT Sports Club. The return to Mercedes-Benz also meant new factory drivers joined the team such as Indy Dontje, Thomas Jäger and Christian Hohenadel. Former Mercedes-Benz factory drivers also returned such as Buhk and Baumann. Buhk and Baumann, joined by Jazeman Jaafar, won a single race at Silverstone in the newly introduced Mercedes-AMG GT3. In 2017 the team also returned to the ADAC GT Masters, but without notable results. In the Blancpain GT Endurance Cup Buhk, joined by Jimmy Eriksson and Franck Perera scored three podium finishes placing them third in the drivers championship.

HTP Motorsport was one of the teams selected by AMG Customer Racing to test the Mercedes-AMG GT4 in the 2017 Touring Car Endurance Series. Debuting at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, Dontje, Bernd Schneider and Jörg Viebahn suffered technical difficulties after running at the front early in the race.

Winward Racing

In 2020 the German team HTP Motorsport and the US-American team Winward Racing became HTP Winward Motorsport after they started a successful partnership in 2017. Since then they had already entered Mercedes AMG GT4 cars in the Michelin Pilot Challenge. HTP Winward Motorsport is now the biggest Mercedes-AMG customer team.

HTP Junior Team

Marvin Dienst with HTP Junior Team at the Sachsenring.

When the ADAC Formel Masters transformed into the ADAC Formula 4 (in accordance with FIA Formula 4 regulations), HTP Motorsport entered three Tatuus F4-T014 cars. The team was run by Brückner and former HWA Team CEO Gerhard Ungar. Marvin Dienst and Jenneau Esmeijer raced the full 2015 season while Carrie Schreiner ran a partial season. Dienst won eight races and clinched the championship, while Esmeijer settled for seventh. At the end of 2015 Ralf Schumacher took over the role from Brücker renaming the team US Racing, ending the involvement from HTP Motorsport in ADAC Formel 4.

Results

24 Hours of Nürburgring

(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.
2014	HTP Motorsport GmbH	Mercedes-Benz SLS AMG GT3	15	Harold Primat Maximilian Götz Kenneth Heyer Roland Rehfeld	SP9	156	7th	7th
2015	Bentley Team HTP	Bentley Continental GT3	11	Harold Primat Christopher Brück Clemens Schmid Marco Seefried	SP9	151	8th	8th
2016	AMG-Team HTP Motorsport	Mercedes-AMG GT3	29	Christian Vietoris Marco Seefried Christian Hohenadel Renger van der Zande	SP9	134	2nd	2nd
			30	Dominik Baumann Stefan Mücke Maximilian Buhk		42	Ret.	Ret.
			31	Maximilian Buhk Stefan Mücke Christian Hohenadel Renger van der Zande		0	DNS	DNS
2017	Mercedes-AMG Team HTP Motorsport	Mercedes-AMG GT3	47	Sebastian Asch Dominik Baumann Christian Hohenadel Stefan Mücke	SP9	27	Ret.	Ret.
			50	Dominik Baumann Maximilian Buhk Edoardo Mortara Edward Sandström		155	Ret.	Ret.
	MANN-FILTER Team HTP Motorsport		48	Kenneth Heyer Bernd Schneider Indy Dontje Patrick Assenheimer		155	14th	14th
2018	Mercedes-AMG Team Mann Filter	Mercedes-AMG GT3	47	Edoardo Mortara Dominik Baumann Renger van der Zande Daniel Juncadella	SP9	83	Ret.	Ret.
			48	Christian Hohenadel Indy Dontje Maximilian Götz Renger van der Zande		129	17th	16th
2019	Mercedes-AMG Team Mann Filter	Mercedes-AMG GT3	48	Christian Hohenadel Lance David Arnold Raffaele Marciello Maximilian Götz	SP9	120	Ret.	Ret.

ADAC Formula 4

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

ADAC Formula 4
Year	Car	No.	Drivers	OSC			RBR			SPA			LAU			NÜR			SAC			OSC			HOC			Pos.	Pts
2015	Tatuus F4-T014 (Abarth)	27	Marvin Dienst	1	1	6	Ret	3	20	Ret	6	14	3	6	1	1	1	3	1	1	2	2	2	4	1	4	Ret	1st	347
		28	Janneau Esmeijer	Ret	2	Ret	9	6	2	8	8	12	13	4	Ret	2	2	4	24	Ret	9	13	24	6	11	Ret	4	7th	136
		35	Carrie Schreiner				DNQ	DNQ	DNQ	30	33	27	19	19	Ret	28	26	29	19	24	17	29	15	Ret	Ret	15	21	44th	0

Timeline

Current series
GT World Challenge Europe	2014–2018, 2020–present
GT World Challenge America	2019–present
IMSA SportsCar Championship	2021–present
Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters	2021–present
Former series
FIA GT3 European Championship	2011-2012
ADAC GT Masters	2011–2012, 2014–2015, 2017–2021
Nürburgring 24 Hours	2012; 2014-2019
FIA GT Series	2013
ADAC Formula 4	2015
Michelin Pilot Challenge	2018-2021
International GT Open	2018-2021
Nürburgring Endurance Series	2019
ADAC GT4 Germany	2020

Gallery

Two HTP Motorsport Bentley's at Nogaro 2015.

Bentley Team HTP at Nogaro 2015.

Bentley Team HTP at Nogaro 2015.

Bentley Team HTP at Nogaro 2015.

Bentley Team HTP at Nogaro 2015.

Hamprecht and Schmid at the Hockenheimring 2015.

Janneau Esmeijer on the grid at Spa 2015.

Former HTP Motorsport driver Alon Day in 2014.

Heico Motorsports at Assen in 2011.

References

This page uses some content from Wikipedia. The original article was at HTP Winward Motorsport. The list of authors can be seen in the page history. As with Autopedia, the text of Wikipedia is available under the GNU Free Documentation License.