The team was founded in 2011 by Michael Zehe and Hans-Peter Naundorf. The operations of the racing team are made by
Motorsport Competence Group AG (MCG AG) who is a development partner and service provider for the automotive and racing area. Under the name
Team ROWE Motorsport the team entered the VLN championship in 2009. Team co-owner Michael Zehe ran an
Audi TT with
Franz Rohr. In 2010
Michael Zehe,
Marco Schelp and
Alexander Roloff ran the
Porsche 911 GT3 Cup S during the season with occasional support from Mark Bullitt. Bullitt was a racing driver living in Germany but racing under an American licence. The team achieved a number of top ten overall finishes.
Mercedes-Benz years 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. 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. 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. The team with Zehe, Roloff and Roland Rehfeld won their second race near the end of the season during the 34th RCM DMV Grenzlandrennen 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. When
Thomas Jäger joined the team for the 6 hour ADAC Ruhr-Pokal-Rennen the team scored their second victory. 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. The team won the race again the following year with Jäger and Serffarth. A new driver pairing of
Christian Hohenadel and
Maro Engel won the ROWE sponsored DMV 250-Meilen-Rennen in 2014
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. ROWE Racing was in the lead when the race was red flagged. Hohenadel and
Klaus Graf scored the second season victory for the team at the 38th RCM DMV Grenzlandrennen 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.
BMW Motorsport factory team 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 In 2023 it won the
Spa 24 Hours for the third time.
Timeline ==Competition Vehicles==