BMW secured its first DTM title since 2016 with a team new to the series and a brand-new car 🏆 ✍️ james_newbold details how Schubert Motorsport made an instant impact and Sheldon van der Linde delivered when it mattered most ⬇️
Schubert Motorsport enjoyed a dream maiden DTM campaign in 2022 as it swept to the drivers’ crown with Sheldon van der Linde and collected the teams’ title too. New to the series, its control Michelin tyres and the BMW M4 GT3 that replaced the venerable M6 GT3 this year, it had a mammoth learning curve to get on terms with teams who had enjoyed continuity from the DTM’s first season with GT3 rules in 2021.
“We were quite happy that we bought quite a lot of tyres at the beginning of the season,” says Schmidt. “We were not limited on our test days during the season. We did a private test in Portimao before, we were on so many tracks before the season started just to sort out everything.” “This was the second weekend and they had not enough data to really put the car in the right spot on the BoP side,” he says of a weekend when Schubert also swept both GT Masters races.
“He was really strong in these battles,” points out Schmidt. “He was not stupid and was every time there when others made mistakes.” One-lap pace was a real van der Linde strong suit relative to Eng, reckons Schmidt. Only once all season was the Austrian BMW’s highest-placed driver in qualifying, but he could have won the second Nurburgring race without a safety car that ruined his afternoon.
That was evidenced again after van der Linde’s worst weekend of the year at the Red Bull Ring, where Schmidt believes BMW had a less than optimal BoP to ensure the championship went to the Hockenheim finale. Van der Linde earned a nine-place grid drop for excessive track limits abuse in the dry opener, which he finished 11th, before spinning on the opening lap of a soaking race two.
"[Schubert] are also a lot more freestyle, which I think could help in a sense because you kind of don’t overthink things. They are very intelligent on the fly"“The passion that the team has with Torsten, it is amazing to see,” van der Linde observed at Hockenheim. “You don’t have that in some teams, where you really feel that they put in everything in to win.
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