2010–11: Beginning and early success Upon the team's founding in late 2009, WRT purchased three
Audi R8 LMS race cars as part of being the official Belgian Audi motorsport importer. The trio of cars shared duties in 2010 between the national
Belcar Endurance Championship, the French
FFSA GT Championship (now GT Tour), and the mid-season
Spa 24 Hours. The team had success from the start, finishing on the podium with at least one car in every Belcar race including two wins by
Gregory Franchi and
Anthony Kumpen and a third victory in a ten-hour
endurance race at
Circuit Zolder with François Verbist, Bert Longin, and Bill Bailly. Franchi and Kumpen locked up the Drivers' Championship, while WRT secured the Teams' Championship. Franchi also partnered with
Stéphane Lémeret to earn two further podium finishes in FFSA GT. In addition to this program, two
Volkswagen Scirocco GT24s were purchased for use in the
Belgian Touring Car Series where the team were vice-champions in their category. Following their first year's success, WRT expanded their program for 2011 by adding the
FIA GT3 European Championship and
Blancpain Endurance Series to the schedule for their Audis. Once again success came early as WRT won the second of two races in the first event of the FIA GT3 Championship with Franchi partnering
Enzo Ide. Their GT Tour program under the title of Team Audi France with French drivers
David Hallyday and
Stéphane Ortelli also earned its first victory for the team at
Dijon-Prenois. In July WRT won the
Spa 24 Hours in only their second attempt, with Franchi sharing the drive with factory Audi drivers
Timo Scheider and
Mattias Ekström. They went on to finish third in the Teams standings, winning three races on the way. In 2013 WRT won both the Teams' and Drivers' Championship of the newly named
FIA GT Series. In 2014 WRT competed both in the
Blancpain Endurance Series and
Blancpain Sprint Series, successor of the FIA GT Series. They won both the Teams' and Drivers' Championship in the
Blancpain GT Series as well as in the Blancpain Endurance Series. They also won the Teams' Championship in the Blancpain Sprint Series. In July 2014 they added a second win in the
Spa 24 Hours with
Laurens Vanthoor,
René Rast and
Markus Winkelhock at the wheel of an Audi R8 LMS. In 2015 they again won both Teams' and Drivers' championships in the Blancpain GT Series. They were also crowned Teams' Champions in the Sprint and Endurance Series. In May 2015 WRT achieved another major success by winning the
24 Hours of Nürburgring with the new version of the
Audi R8 LMS (GT3). In 2016, WRT made their debut in
Touring car racing, running pair of Volkswagen Golfs in the
TCR International Series under the Leopard Racing badge. Driving for the team were
Stefano Comini and
Jean-Karl Vernay. WRT also made their debut in the
European Le Mans Series running a
Ligier JS P2, but only at the 4 Hours of Spa. They won the TCR International Series Drivers' titles in both 2016 and 2017, with Comini and Vernay respectively. In 2018 and 2019 WRT participated in the
World Touring Car Cup fielding a pair of
Audi RS3 LMSs.
2019–20: Deutsche Tourenwagen Masters |left In 2018 WRT won the
Bathurst 12 hour race with the
Audi R8 LMS (GT3), at their first attempt. On 12 October 2018 WRT announced it would run a pair of
Audi RS5 Turbo DTMs in the
2019 DTM season as a customer team. They later announced
Jonathan Aberdein and
Pietro Fittipaldi, grandson of double Formula One World Champion
Emerson Fittipaldi, as their two drivers for the season. Although not scoring a single podium, Aberdein was able to impress with several points scoring positions and finished the season in tenth place as the highest ranked rookie. In August 2019 WRT won the
2019 Suzuka 10 Hours, which was the 48th edition of the
Summer Endurance Classic at Suzuka. At the end of 2019, WRT announced an all new line-up for the
2020 DTM season consisting of
2016 Indy Lights champion
Ed Jones and
FIA Formula 3 driver
Fabio Scherer. Later WRT announced they would enter a third car for
Ferdinand Habsburg, who had previously been driving for Aston Martin. Before the season started Jones pulled out of the championship due to travel complications as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. He was subsequently replaced by
Harrison Newey, who made his debut in the DTM. Habsburg managed to score his and the team's first podium finish as well as a pole position. As a result of Audi's exit at the end of the season it was decided that the
Class One formula would be dropped and replaced by GT3 machinery. WRT ultimately decided not to enter the DTM in 2021.
2021–23: LMP2 Program |right After exiting the DTM, WRT announced their intention to enter the LMP2 class in the
FIA WEC to prepare for an eventual program in the new
LMDh formula. On 21 January the team officially announced it would enter the FIA WEC with an
Oreca 07. The drivers will be
Robin Frijns,
Ferdinand Habsburg and
Charles Milesi. WRT later announced that they would also enter an Oreca 07 in the
ELMS driven by
Robert Kubica. ,
Vervisch and
Müller Adding to their Le Mans victory, Team WRT ended the 2021 season winning both the Drivers' and Teams' titles in the
FIA WEC and
ELMS. This means the team won all possible titles in their debut LMP2 season. Additionally WRT won five out of six possible titles in the GT World Challenge series with their GT operation, rounding off their most successful season to date. In 2022 WRT will expand to two full season entries in the
FIA WEC. WRT also continues to run several
Audi R8 LMS in the
GT World Challenge Europe and will field a car for
MotoGP legend
Valentino Rossi in 2022. He will team up with Audi Sport factory drivers
Frédéric Vervisch and
Nico Müller. In January 2022 WRT won the
Dubai 24 Hour for a second time. In the GT World Challenge Europe, the team won the
Sprint Cup Teams' title for the ninth time in ten years while WRT drivers
Dries Vanthoor and
Charles Weerts won the Drivers' title for the third time in a row. This marked the end of an incredibly successful partnership with
Audi Sport across
SRO championships where the team earned several wins and won multiple titles. From 2023 WRT will field several
BMW M4 GT3s. In the FIA WEC, WRT was unable to retain its LMP2 titles despite winning four out of six races due to a bad result at the
24 Hours of Le Mans where points count double. On 15 January 2023 WRT won the
Dubai 24 Hour for the third time after having previously won the
2016 and
2022 editions. This marked WRT's first outing with BMW and immediately resulted in the
BMW M4 GT3's first major 24 hour race victory. In February WRT also contested the first two rounds of the
2023 Intercontinental GT Challenge at
Bathurst and
Kyalami. WRT scored a 1–2 win at the
Kyalami 9 Hours. In the
FIA World Endurance Championship WRT once again entered two
Oreca 07s in the LMP2 class. At the
2023 24 Hours of Le Mans WRT's #41 car finished second only 20s behind the winner, which was enough to give the #41 car driven by
Robert Kubica,
Louis Delétraz and
Rui Andrade the lead in the championship. The trio went on to claim the 2023 FIA WEC LMP2 championship rounding of the season with three wins and six podiums in seven races. WRT ended the LMP2 era in WEC with 10 race victories in 19 races and 2 championship wins in 3 seasons.
2024–present: Hypercar with BMW While never officially announced WRT had been chosen by Audi to run their
LMDh program in the 2023 FIA WEC Hypercar class. However, days before the first rollout of the car Audi decided to stop the program, officially stating it was putting it on hold. For 2026, the team's Hypercar program with BMW expanded, as Team WRT began fielding BMW's hypercars in the
IMSA SportsCar Championship in America, taking over from BMW's previous IMSA partner
Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. ==Results & Achievements==