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| Engstler Motorsport | |
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| Motor racing team | |
| Founded | Unknown |
| Country | Germany |
| Team Principal(s) | Franz Engstler |
| Current series | World Touring Car Championship Asian Touring Car Championship ADAC Procar Series |
| Drivers' titles | 2005 ATCC (Engstler) 2006 ATCC (Engstler) 2007 ADAC Procar (Engstler) 2008 ATCC (Lemvard) |
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Engstler Motorsport is a German auto racing team based in Wiggensbach, run by driver Franz Engstler. It has competed successfully in the Asian Touring Car Championship and the ADAC Procar Series. It is sponsored by lubricants company Liqui Moly and known officially as Liqui Moly Team Engstler.
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The team made its World Touring Car Championship debut in the end of season Macau Guia race in 2005, with two BMW 320is for Hong Kong driver Paul Poon and New Zealander Peter Scharmach. While Poon failed to qualify for the race, Scharmach finished 16th in the first race, but retired in the second. The team returned to the WTCC at Macau two years later, running three 320is for Franz Engstler, Andrey Romanov and David Louie. They finished 19th, 24th and 25th respectively in the first race, while in the second race Engstler came home 16th, while Romanov and Louie retired.
Engstler and Romanov competed full time in 2008 in BMW 320sis, with Engstler scoring three points in the Overall Championship, finishing second in the Independent's Trophy, with Romanov finishing fifth.[1] Japan's Masaki Kano competed in an older 320i model in the final two rounds of the series.
Dane Kristian Poulsen was brought in to race alongside Franz Engstler in 2009.[2] Engstler was leading at the end of the first lap of the second race at Pau when he and the safety car collided, taking him out of the race. From Brands Hatch onwards, the team ran a third car for ADAC Procar Series champion Philip Geipel.
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