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DTM MEDIA GUIDE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

FOREWORDS Hans-Peter Naundorf 4 Michael Zehe and Dr. Alexandra Kohlmann 5

ROWE RACING The Team 7 The History 8

THE COMPANY ROWE MINERALÖLWERK GMBH 12

THE DRIVERS

Timo Glock 14 Sheldon van der Linde 16

THE CAR BMW M6 GT3 18

THE INNOVATION Schaeffler Paravan Space Drive 23

THE CALENDAR The DTM races 2021 24

THE CONTACT PERSONS 26

THE CHANNELS 26 DEAR MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES, DEAR MEDIA REPRESENTATIVES,

The 2021 DTM season is a very special one for all of us: for We too would like to wish you a warm welcome at the start of ROWE RACING, it represents the step up to a new level, and the 2021 DTM season, and are pleased that you are interested for me personally it means a return to the DTM. We are all very in this special ROWE RACING project. This is more than simple much looking forward to the next four months, which will sponsorship. We founded this racing team together with pose new challenges for our entire team. Hans-Peter Naundorf a good ten years ago, and have achieved outstanding success since then. Entering the DTM is now the On the track, because we will be up against the best and most logical next step. experienced teams in the DTM, which is the most professional and demanding racing series in Europe outside of Formula 1. The DTM is the top racing series outside Formula 1 and I am confident that we will play a major role with our drivers achieves immense coverage through its TV presence in Timo Glock and Sheldon van der Linde, and with our extraordi- Germany and internationally. Our team’s outings will obviously nary team spirit. raise the awareness of our company and strengthen trust in our products and our ROWE MOTOR OIL brand. Furthermore, And away from the track, as the DTM also enjoys a totally ROWE MINERALÖLWERK GMBH is also represented by sales different type of media attention to our previous projects – partners and subsidiaries in all the countries that the DTM nationally and internationally. Some of them we will already be will visit this year, providing the opportunity to bring our familiar with, for others we are new to the game. In this Media customers even closer to our brand. Guide, we want to offer you all an overview of ROWE RACING, our drivers and our teams. I hope this information helps you to Lastly, motorsport is also an important test field for us. do your job and wish you all an exciting 2021 DTM season. Products that meet the highest demands at the racetrack also offer the best possible results for our customers. Alongside Yours in sport, our many starts on the endurance circuit, the sprints in the Hans-Peter Naundorf DTM will provide a totally new impetus for our product development and guarantee the outstanding performance that our HIGHTEC products “Made in Germany“ stand for.

Kind regards, Michael Zehe & Dr. Alexandra Kohlmann MICHAEL ZEHE AND HANS-PETER NAUNDORF, DR. ALEXANDRA KOHLMANN, CEOS OF TEAM PRINCIPAL ROWE RACING ROWE MINERALÖLWERK GMBH

4 5 ROWE RACING: THE TEAM

Established 2011 BMW M6 GT3, which has proven itself in many Team Base St. Ingbert (GER) long-distance successes, and two high-class drivers. Former Formula 1 driver Timo Glock and Team Principal Hans-Peter Naundorf Sheldon van der Linde form a perfect combination Head of Technical of experience and youth. Both know the DTM Department David Funk and have already enjoyed race wins in the series. Head of Workshop Maximilian Schuh The ROWE RACING success story began in 2011, Team Organisation Christine Schlenker when Hans-Peter Naundorf and Michael Zehe launched the team. Zehe, founder of ROWE ROWE RACING is regarded as one of the best MINERALÖLWERK GMBH and a big motorsport teams in Europe when it comes to endurance enthusiast, was looking for a team to run a new racing. 2020 was the most successful season GT3 race car, the Mercedes-AMG SLS. In the since the team was founded in 2011: within process, he met Naundorf, who was looking for a the space of just four weeks, team principal new challenge after ten years with the Persson Hans-Peter Naundorf’s outfit won the two team in the DTM. They founded the Motorsport 24-hour classics at the Nürburgring and in Spa – Competence Group in St. Ingbert. Within the with two different manufacturers. This was the ROWE RACING project, they ran the Mercedes- first time this feat had been achieved by a racing AMG SLS in the VLN at the Nürburgring-Nord- team in the modern GT3 era. No other team is schleife. The team claimed its maiden VLN able to match the record of ROWE RACING at victory in its very first year. This was followed in these two races: three overall victories and four 2013 and 2014 by the first appearances on the runner-up finishes since 2016. podium at the 24h race at the Nürburgring, courtesy of two third-place finishes. ROWE RACING is now facing a new challenge as it lines up in the DTM for the first time. In its first full season in a sprint series without driver changeovers, the team turns to the

7 One big step forward was the switch to the BMW M6 GT3 ROWE RACING: THE HISTORY at the start of the 2016 season. The first year with the new car produced the first triumph at the 24 Hours of 2021 2nd place 24h Nürburgring Spa, which the team followed in 2017 with second place 2020 1st place 24h Nürburgring in the Nürburgring 24h race the and a runner-up finish in Spa in 2018. From 2019, ROWE RACING has taken 1st place 24h Spa a two-pronged approach: as well as the BMW at the 2019 2nd place 24h Spa Nürburgring, the team also fields the Porsche 911 GT3 R 2nd and 3rd place FIA GT World Cup Macau in the Blancpain GT Series, which includes the endurance 2018 2nd place 24h Spa classic in Spa. And it has done so with great success: in 2019, the team finished second, fifth and seventh. The 2017 2nd place 24h Nürburgring first season with Porsche drew to a close with second 2016 1st place 24h Spa and third place at the FIA GT World Cup in Macau. 2020 rd yielded the second Spa victory with Porsche, while the 2014 3 place 24h Nürburgring BMW M6 GT3 claimed the first overall victory at the 2013 3rd place 24h Nürburgring Nürburgring – a result it backed up impressively with 2011 1st victory in a VLN race second place in 2021.

Throughout its history, ROWE RACING has worked with a host of well-known drivers. As well as 24-hour winners , , Alexander Sims, Nick Catsburg and (BMW), and , and (Porsche), big-name drivers like Thomas Jäger, Jaime Algersuari, and Dani Juncadella (Mercedes-AMG), DTM champions Bruno Spengler, and (BMW), and WEC champion , Fred Makowiecki and (Porsche) have also driven for the team from St. Ingbert.

WINNER CAR 24H NÜRBURGRING 2020

8 9 ROWE RACING ROWE RACING MERCEDES AMG SLS PORSCHE 911 GT3 2011 – 2015 2019 – 2020 THE COMPANY: ROWE MINERALÖLWERK GMBH

The business started by Dipl.-Ing. Michael Zehe as a “one-man In terms of sustainability, ROWE show” in 1995, working with a single mixing vessel from a garage also plays a pioneering role in in Flörsheim-Dalsheim, Germany, is now a successful family-run the lubricant industry. The company with more than 300 employees worldwide. Since 2016, company has long shown that Michael Zehe has been running ROWE MINERALÖLWERK environment and industry and GMBH together with his daughter Dr. Alexandra Kohlmann. not mutually exclusive, with The company headquarters in Worms has been the location for climate-compensated products, one of Europe’s most modern lubricant factories since 2014, a number of sustainability projects equipped with over 65 km of pipeline and an ultra-modern and the implementation of a range process control system. The ROWE group now includes more of standards such as DIN ISO 50001 than 15 subsidiaries from a range of business segments. and 14001 for energy and environ- mental management. The “RAISE THE LIMIT” slogan drives the company onward: no-one is content to accept the standard, no limits are set, With numerous subsidiaries and loyal and everyone strives to be the best. Because that is what customers in over 80 countries, ROWE ROWE is all about. An unconditional passion, the highest level MINERALÖLWERK GMBH can always operate of quality and incomparable development expertise make flexibly and, thanks to our comprehensive the manufacturing company from Worms one of the experts lubricant portfolio, cover global markets and in the lubricant industry, distributing innovative and sustainable their requirements. In the area of sponsoring, lubricants all around the world. ROWE has added numerous activities in professional soccer to the existing presence in The involvement in motorsport also contributes to the high motorsport with ROWE RACING and the roles as level of development potential. Since the team was founded, main sponsor of the Nürburgring Endurance ROWE RACING has been testing the company’s products Championship. Since 2017, the company has been under competitive conditions and on the most challenging supporting the German Bundesliga club Borussia circuit in the world, the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. For example, Dortmund, which triumphed in the national cup the engine from a Mercedes-AMG SLS used ROWE lubricants competition the DFB-Pokal. In 2021, the first year of to complete around 50,000 race kilometres without a single partnership with the top Spanish club Atlético Madrid overhaul, and can now be admired on display at the company was crowned with a first championship title since 2014. headquarters.

12 THE DRIVERS: TIMO GLOCK

#16 ROWE RACING BMW M6 GT3

Date of Birth 18th March 1982 Place of Birth Lindenfels (GER) Place of Residence Kreuzlingen (SUI) ROWE RACING since 2021 DTM since 2013 Greatest Success GP2 Champion 2007

“I am really looking forward to the new challenge of competing in a new team, especially with a GT3 car in the DTM. It is once again a very strong field this year and we will see plenty of close races. And in addition to this, my #16 ROWE RACING BMW M6 GT3 is equipped with the Schaeffler Paravan Space Drive system, meaning that there is no mechanical connection between the steering unit and steering gear. As a driver, it is exciting to be involved in such a future-oriented development project and to be able to contribute to this.”

CAREER HIGHLIGHTS: DTM STATISTICS TO DATE*: 2020 5th place DTM Starts 138 2019 12th place DTM Wins 5 2018 5th place DTM (1 win) 2008 – 2012 F ormula 1 Podiums 15 nd rd 2017 7th place DTM (1 win) (91 GP starts, two 2 places, one 3 place) Pole Positions 6 st 2016 10th place DTM (1 win) 2007 1 place GP2 Championship Fastest Race Laps 5 th th 2005 8 place ChampCar Series, Rookie of the Year Total Points 674 2015 15 place DTM (1 win) st 2014 16th place DTM 2001 1 place Formula BMW ADAC st 2013 9th place DTM (1 win) 2000 1 place Formel BMW ADAC Junior Cup

14 * As at end of Nürburgring 2021 – The latest version of the Media Guide can be found here: 15 www.mcg-ag.de/mediaguide-rowe-racing THE DRIVERS: SHELDON VAN DER LINDE CAREER HIGHLIGHTS:

#31 ROWE RACING BMW M6 GT3 2021 2nd place 24h Nürburgring with ROWE RACING 2017 1st place GTD class “Petit Le Mans” th rd Date of Birth 13th May 1999 2020 6 place DTM (1 win) 3 place ADAC TCR Germany Place of Birth Johannesburg (RSA) 3rd place 24h Nürburgring 2016 4th place Audi Sport TT Cup Place of Residence Kempten (GER) 1st place Kyalami 9 Hour 2014 1st place Polo Cup South Africa ROWE RACING since 2021 2019 13th place DTM DTM since 2019 Greatest Success 1st win by a South African in the DTM 2018 2nd place ADAC GT Masters 1st place ADAC GT Masters junior standings “It’s already my third season here in DTM, which at only 22 years old is quite awesome. I feel like I have built up some good experience in the last 2 years 3rd place 24h Spa but obviously the picture will be different this year with GT3 regulations. I’m 4th place 24h Daytona quietly confident because the team knows the car extremely well and I have a fair amount of mileage in the BMW M6 GT3 from races in my last 2 years with BMW. The race calendar should suit the car quite a lot too. My goal is to help the team make their step in the DTM a positive and successful one.”

DTM STATISTICS TO DATE*:

Starts 44 Wins 1 Podiums 2 Pole Positions 2 Fastest Race Laps 2 Total Points 192

16 * As at end of Nürburgring 2021 – The latest version of the Media Guide can be found here: www.mcg-ag.de/mediaguide-rowe-racing THE CAR: BMW M6 GT3

DIMENSIONS: CHASSIS: Length 4,944 mm Double wishbones (front and rear) Width 2,046 mm Stabilisers, configurable externally (front and rear) Wheelbase 2,901 mm Configurable shocks (front and rear)

Weight 1,310 kg (without driver) TRANSMISSION: WHEELS / TYRES: Low position powertrain Wheels FA / RA: 13 x 18 inch Transaxle gearbox with 6 gears Tyres FA / RA: 310/710 x 18 inch Mechanical differential lock

BRAKES: DRIVER AIDS: Front 6-piston, fixed calliper Motorsport ABS Rear 4-piston, fixed calliper Motorsport traction control

ENGINE: CHASSIS: Model V8 with M TwinPower turbo technology, Self-supporting steel chassis based on the S63 production engine and Welded safety cage in line with latest FIA standards slightly modified for the specific require- ments of motorsport Carbon-fibre crash structure at front and rear Capacity 4,395 cc Output more than 600 hp, depending of Balance of Performance for DTM 2021 Oil supply Oil system, based on dry sump, developed by BMW M Motorsport ROWE RACING BMW M6 GT3 SEIT 2016 18 19

THE INNOVATION: SCHAEFFLER PARAVAN SPACE DRIVE

ROWE RACING and Timo Glock will put their like this. In a few years, this will become an faith in the innovative Space Drive steering everyday component of modern automobiles, system from Schaeffler Paravan in the 2021 as doing away with a classic steering column DTM season. The #16 BMW M6 GT3 no longer offers greater freedom in terms of design.” has a mechanical link between the steering unit and the steering gear. Instead, the steering The steer-by-wire system from Schaeffler Paravan is done using steer-by-wire technology, which does not have a steering column, and therefore means that the driver’s steering commands no mechanical or hydraulic link between the are transferred electronically to the wheels. steering wheel and the steering gear. Instead, a control unit transfers the driver’s steering After successful test outings with the steer- movements, identified by a sensor on the steering by-wire system from Schaeffler Paravan at wheel, electronically ‘by wire’ to an electric motor the ADAC 24h race at the Nürburgring, in the on the steering gear, which then performs the GTC Race touring car series, and in rallying, steering command. Another small electric motor ROWE RACING now becomes one of three on the steering wheel generates the familiar teams to compete in the DTM for the first time feedback, which, with classic steering systems, in 2021. The reference to the traditional can be felt via the steering column. steering system in the #31 BMW M6 GT3 driven by Sheldon van der Linde allows The Space Drive system is the only one of ROWE RACING to deliver valuable data for its kind in the world with road approval. further development of Space Drive. Testing and developing under extreme stress in motorsport and the fiercely-competitive “It is exciting to be involved from the outset in DTM will help gain new knowledge and the introduction of a technology like the steer- fine-tune the system at race speed on its way by-wire system in such a highly-professional to being ready for mass production. Space Drive racing series as the DTM,” ROWE RACING will then have many possible applications in Team Principal Hans-Peter Naundorf says: different car categories, including autonomous “With the extreme demands it places on the driving. cars, motorsport is the ideal testing platform for a pioneering technology

23 THE CALENDAR: THE DTM RACES 2021

Start time in each case 13.30 CEST

CURRENT RESULTS AND SCORES CAN BE FOUND HERE:

RESULTS

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25 THE CONTACT PERSONS TEAM PRINCIPAL MEDIA DRIVERS BOOST UP Hans-Peter Naundorf Coordination of appointments Timo Glock: Mail: [email protected] at the race weekends: Zsuzsa Szalontai Tel.:+49 172 83 11 775 Christine Schlenker Mail: [email protected] Mail: [email protected] Tel.: +49 172 84 85 920 YOUR CAR. PHOTOS Tel.: +49 151 29 70 16 86 Photo material for editorial use can be Sheldon van der Linde: found here: Media enquiries and coordination Frank Christian www.rowe-racing.com/en/press outside the race weekends: Mail: [email protected] Password: ROWE_RACING_PR_2021 Thomas Straka Tel.: +49 175 56 55 600 Mail: [email protected] Tel.: +49 171 83 12 598

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