After eleven years of collaboration: Philipp Eng leaves BMW M Motorsport

After eleven successful years, the partnership between BMW M Motorsport and Philipp Eng is coming to an end. Both parties have agreed not to renew the works driver contract, which expires at the end of the 2026 season. Eng will be taking on new challenges in the future. In GT racing, the Austrian has celebrated many major successes for BMW M Motorsport – including three overall victories at the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and a GTLM class victory at the 24 Hours of Daytona. Since 2023, Eng has been a key member of the driver line-up for the BMW M Hybrid V8, in which he secured two victories.

Eng joined BMW M Motorsport as a works driver in 2016 and made an immediate impact. At the end-of-season classic at Spa-Francorchamps, he triumphed in the ROWE Racing BMW M6 GT3. Two further victories were to follow there in 2018 and 2023. In 2019, Eng won at Daytona in the BMW M8 GTE for BMW M Team RLL. Between 2018 and 2022, the 36-year-old competed in a total of four seasons in the DTM. In 72 races, he secured one victory and five podium finishes. From 2023, Eng, driving the BMW M Hybrid V8, was a key part of BMW M Motorsport’s comeback in the top class of the prototype category. In four seasons in the GTP class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, Eng secured two victories and five podium finishes – two of them in the current season. In 2025, he finished fourth in the overall standings alongside Dries Vanthoor.

Eng was already part of the BMW M Motorsport family during his youth. Between 2006 and 2008, he competed in the Formula BMW junior racing series. In 2007, he triumphed at the Formula BMW World Final, for which he was rewarded the following year with a test drive in the BMW Sauber F1 Team’s Formula 1 car.

Andreas Roos, Head of BMW M Motorsport: “I would like to extend my warmest thanks to Philipp Eng for eleven successful years together at BMW M Motorsport. Through his numerous major victories in GT racing, he has established himself as one of the world’s top drivers in this category. At the same time, Philipp has regularly demonstrated his class at the wheel of the BMW M Hybrid V8 since 2023. In the IMSA series, he was a key component in our development over four seasons into a top team that can now consistently compete for victories and podium places. I wish Philipp all the best for the next stage of his career and look forward to seeing him again soon at the racetrack.”

Philipp Eng: “I would like to express my heartfelt thanks to everyone who has supported me during my eleven years at BMW M Motorsport. It has been a fantastic time! Over the years, I have made many friends, and I am very grateful for that. I’m delighted to have won races in every series I’ve competed in – be it the DTM, the IMSA series, the GT World Challenge or the Intercontinental GT Challenge. Particular highlights were, of course, my three victories at the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps and my success at the 24 Hours of Daytona. Now it is time for me to turn my attention to new and exciting challenges. I wish BMW M Motorsport all the best for the future! I will always have very fond memories of our time together.”