Scherer Sport PHX is a motor racing team based at the

Nürburgring The () is a 150,000-person capacity motorsports complex located in the town of Nürburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany. It features a Grand Prix motor racing, Grand Prix race track built in 1984, and a long configuration, built in the 1920s ...

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. The team competes in series such as the

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and

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and was the winner of the 2022 24 Hours of Nürburgring. Known as Phoenix Racing or Team Phoenix for much of its life, the Scherer Gruppe has taken over the racing team, changining its name to Scherer Sport PHX.

History

Phoenix Racing competed in the German Supertouring Championship in 1999 with

Michael Bartels Michael Bartels (born 8 March 1968) is a German professional racing driver. He is a multiple FIA GT champion and former Grand Prix driver who attempted to qualify for four races in with Lotus. Career Bartels was the 1985 German karting champ ...

and Arnd Meier driving

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s. The team moved to the revived

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series in 2000, running Opel Astra V8 Coupes, with

Manuel Reuter Manuel Reuter (born 6 December 1961) is a German former racing driver. He has won the 24 Hours of Le Mans twice: *in 1989 24 Hours of Le Mans for Sauber-Mercedes *in 1996 24 Hours of Le Mans for Joest Racing He also won the Interserie in 19 ...

finishing as runner-up and Bartels finishing seventh. The team also won the

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in a Porsche GT3-R with Bartels,

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, Altfrid Heger and

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as drivers. Phoenix repeated this victory in 2003 in an Opel Astra with Reuter,

Timo Scheider Timo Scheider (born 10 November 1978 in Lahnstein) is a German racing driver who competes in the FIA World Rallycross Championship for Münnich Motorsport. He won the DTM title in 2008 and 2009. Career Karting Like most other drivers, Scheider ...

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and Marcel Tiemann. Opel began to struggle in the DTM in 2001, with Reuter the best Opel in ninth position and Phoenix teammate Yves Oliver finishing down in 22nd place. Phoenix and Opel never won another DTM race up until the end of 2005, when the manufacturer withdrew. For 2006, there was a need for more cars to be run by the remaining two manufacturers,

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and

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. This led to Phoenix running one-year-old

s from the 2006 season onwards. In 2011 Martin Tomczyk won the DTM drivers title for Phoenix at the penultimate race in

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, with 3 victories, 7 total podiums, and 1 pole position. In 2013,

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took the title in the

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with one race remaining having 2 wins and 3 second places, driving the Audi A5. Phoenix Racing also began competing in the

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in 2006, with

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and

Andrea Piccini Andrea Piccini (born 12 December 1978 in Sansepolcro) is an Italian racing driver who is the part-owner and team principal of the Iron Lynx Motorsport Lab ELMS and Italian F4 team. Single Seaters Piccini began his single seater career in 19 ...

finishing the season as runners-up in an

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. For 2007 the team joined up with Toine Hezemans' Carsport Holland team to form ''Phoenix Carsport''. Deletraz and Mike Hezemans finished in third place in the standings racing a Corvette C6.R. In 2008, Hezemans and

Fabrizio Gollin Fabrizio Gollin (born 28 March 1975 in Camposampiero, Province of Padua) is an Italian racing driver who shared the FIA GT Championship with Luca Cappellari in 2004 while driving for BMS Scuderia Italia. He also is a winner of the Spa 24 Hours ...

finished as runners-up for the team. In 2009, Carsport returned to running their team with Peka Racing, but Phoenix and Carsport will again partner each other in 2010 for the first season of the

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. Phoenix Racing became an

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factory-supported team in 2009, competing at the

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and

with an Audi R8 GT3 LMS. In 2012, the team won the

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, the

and the

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. They also won the

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and the

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winner in

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in 2016

References

External links

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