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| Founded | 1993 |
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| Team principal(s) | Will Turner |
| Current series | GT World Challenge America IMSA SportsCar Championship Intercontinental GT Challenge Michelin Pilot Challenge VP Racing SportsCar Challenge |
| Current drivers |  Bill Auberlen Vin Barletta Michael Dinan John Edwards Robby Foley Patrick Gallagher Chandler Hull Jens Klingmann Cameron Lawrence Robert Megennis Francis Selldorff.svg.png.webp){kind=small} Bruno Spengler |
Turner Motorsport (Also known as TMS Racing or Turner racing ) is a professional sports car racing team located in Newton, NH, and is the second most prolific BMW privateer racing team in the world, second only to Schnitzer Motorsport, who stopped racing in 2020. As of 2023 Turner motorsport has competed in over 470 professional sport car races.
Turner motorsport has exclusively raced BMW models professionally since 1998, including the BMW 3 Series , BMW M3 coupes, and the M6, and starting in 2022 the M4GT3 in the IMSA. Previously, the team was highly successful in the Speed World Challenge Touring Car series.
History
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.
Turner Motorsport also raced an E46 BMW M3 in the SCCA Club Racing T2 Class, Will Turner finished 3rd in the 2006 SCCA Runoffs at Heartland Park Topeka in Topeka, Kansas.
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 competes in the GT Daytona class (GTD) in the Championship with a GTD / GT3 BMW M6, and has thus far taken 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 to the Driver's Championship in 2014, Turner to the Team Championship, but not BMW to the Manufacturer's championship.[1]
List of championships
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
Past drivers
- Dane Cameron
- Augusto Farfus
- Pedro Lamy
- Paul Dalla Lana
- Bill Auberlen
- Joey Hand
- Don Salama
- Billy Johnson
- Tom Kimber-Smith
- Dirk Müller
- Dirk Werner
- Jörg Müller
- Maxime Martin
- Gunter Schaldach
- Anders Hainer
- Chris Gleason
- Adam Burrows
- Trevor Hopwood
- Michael Marsal
- Markus Palttala
- Will Turner