Rutronik Racing

Rutronik Racing also known as HCB-Rutronik Racing is a German racing team from Remchingen. The team mainly competes in the GT World Challenge. The team was originally founded by Hans-Christoph Behler as HCB Management Gmbh, but was renamed following sponsorship from electronic components distributor Rutronik Elektronische Bauelemente GmbH ^[1]

Rutronik Racing

Founded	2010
Founder(s)	Hans-Christoph Behler
Base	Remchingen
Current series	GT World Challenge
Former series	GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup
Current drivers	Antares Au Loek Hartog Sven Müller Patric Niederhauser Alessio Picariello Eshan Pieris Morris Schuring
Drivers' Championships	1
Website	https://rutronikracing.com

History

Founded in 2010, the team competed in the FIA GT World Cup in 2018 as Audi Sport Team Rutronik. In 2019, the team entered the ADAC GT Masters. The team was a customer sport team from Audi Sport Customer Racing and used 10 Audi GT3 cars in two championships.^[2]

The racing team won the driver and team classification in its debut season in 2019.

Rutronik Racing will field two Porsche 911 GT3 R in 2024.

Results

ADAC GT Masters

Year	Car	Drivers	Points	D.C.	T.C.
2019	Audi R8 LMS Evo	Kelvin van der Linde Patric Niederhauser	205	1st	1st
		Dennis Marschall Carrie Schreiner	22	24th
2020	Audi R8 LMS Evo	Kelvin van der Linde Patric Niederhauser	160	4th	4th
		Dennis Marschall	33	24th
		Carrie Schreiner	24	28th
		Hamza Owega	9	36th
2021	Audi R8 LMS Evo	Dennis Marschall Kim-Luis Schramm	85	11th	8th
		Elia Erhart	19	31st
		Pierre Kaffer	11	38th
		Mattia Drudi	8	39th
2022	Audi R8 LMS Evo II	Dennis Marschall Kim-Luis Schramm	120	6th	5th
		Luca Engstler Patric Niederhauser	104	14th

GT World Challenge Europe Sprint Cup

Year	Car	Catégory	Drivers	Points	Position	Catégory position
2024	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Pro	Sven Müller Patric Niederhauser	41	5th	5th
		Bronze	Dennis Marschall Dustin Blattner	0	NC	3rd
2025	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Pro	Sven Müller Patric Niederhauser	TBD	TBD	TBD
		Silver	Loek Hartog Eshan Pieris	TBD	TBD	TBD

GT World Challenge Europe Endurance Cup

Year	Car	Catégory	Drivers	Points	Position	Catégory position
2021	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Pro	Kévin Estre Richard Lietz Sven Müller	0	NC	NC
2023	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Pro	Laurin Heinrich Dennis Olsen Thomas Preining	38	7th	7th
2024	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Pro	Sven Müller Patric Niederhauser Julien Andlauer
		Bronze	Dustin Blattner Loek Hartog Dennis Marschall Zacharie Robichon Alexander Fach
2025	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Pro	Sven Müller Patric Niederhauser Alessio Picariello	TBD	TBD	TBD
		Bronze	Antares Au Loek Hartog Morris Schuring	TBD	TBD	TBD

Former series results

FIA GT World Cup

Year	Car	Drivers	Position
2016	Audi R8 LMS	Fabian Plentz	8th
		Tommy Tulpe	18th
2017	Audi R8 LMS	Lucas di Grassi	DNF
		Fabian Plentz	DNS
2018	Audi R8 LMS	Christopher Haase	6th
2019	Audi R8 LMS Evo	Kelvin van der Linde	10th

24 Hours of Spa

Year	Car	Category	Drivers	Position
2021	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Pro	Kévin Estre Richard Lietz Sven Müller	DNF
2023	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Pro	Laurin Heinrich Dennis Olsen Thomas Preining	5th
2024	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Pro	Julien Andlauer Sven Müller Patric Niederhauser	9th
	Porsche 911 GT3 R	Bronze	Dustin Blattner Loek Hartog Dennis Marschall Zacharie Robichon	DNF

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24 Hours of Nürburgring

Year	Car	Category	Drivers	Position
2021	Porsche 911 GT3 R	SP 9 Pro	Julien Andlauer Romain Dumas Tobias Müller Laurens Vanthoor	DNF
2023	Porsche 911 GT3 R	SP 9 Pro	Julien Andlauer Matteo Cairoli Dennis Olsen	5th