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BMW Motorsport director Mario Theissen

1982 Piquet and Riccardo Patrese at the wheel, score their first Formula One points on 9th May in Zolder at the Belgian Grand Prix (Piquet finishing 5th); first GP wins in Montreal on 13th June in the Canadian GP
(fifth race, Piquet); first pole position in Zeltweg on 15th August, in the Austrian GP (Piquet). 

1983  Nelson Piquet wins the Drivers’ Formula One World Championship at the wheel of a Brabham BMW;
first appearance of the BMW Formula One engine with the ATS Team (Manfred Winkelhock); Dieter Quester,

1984  Nelson Piquet finishes 5th in the Formula One World Championship in a Brabham BMW;
Teo Fabi, Corrado Fabi, and Manfred Winkelhock also drive a Brabham BMW; Gerhard Berger and Manfred Winkelhock drive an ATS BMW

1985  Nelson Piquet finishes 8th in the Formula One World Championship at the wheel of a Brabham BMW;
François Hesnault and Marc Surer drive a Brabham BMW, Gerhard Berger and Thierry Boutsen an Arrows BMW

1986  BMW supplies engines to the Brabham (Riccardo Patrese, Elio de Angelis, Derek Warwick), Arrows (Marc Surer, Thierry Boutsen, Christian Danner), and Benetton (Gerhard Berger, Teo Fabi) Formula One teams; Berger brings home the last grand prix win for a BMW 1.5-litre four-cylinder turbo in Mexico and finishes 7th in the World Championship

1987 Brabham (Riccardo Patrese, Andrea de Cesaris, Stefano Modena) still uses BMW engines in the Formula One World Championship; by the end of the turbo ERA, BMW engines look back at 91 starts, nine wins and 15 pole positions. 

1999  3rd place FIA Formula One Constructors’ World Championship, BMW WilliamsF1 Team, Ralf Schumacher and Jenson Button

2001  3rd place FIA Formula One Constructors’ World Championship, BMW WilliamsF1 Team, Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya (four wins, four pole positions).

2002 2nd place FIA Formula One Constructors’ World Championship, BMW WilliamsF1 Team, Juan Pablo Montoya (3r place) and Ralf Schumacher (4th place), one one-two finish (Schumacher ahead of Montoya in Malaysia), seven pole positions (Montoya);

2003 2nd place FIA Formula One Constructors’ World Championship, BMW WilliamsF1 Team, Juan Pablo Montoya (3rd) and Ralf Schumacher (5th), two one-two finishes (Schumacher ahead of Montoya, European and French GP), two single victories (Montoya, Monaco and Germany), four pole positions (Schumacher three, Montoya one);

2004 4th place FIA Formula One Constructors’ World Championship, BMW WilliamsF1 Team, Juan Pablo Montoya (5th), Ralf Schumacher (9th), Antonio Pizzonia (15th), one win (Montoya, Brazil), one pole position (Schumacher, Canada)

2005  5th place FIA Formula One Constructors’ World Championship, BMWWilliamsF1 Team, Mark Webber (10th), Nick Heidfeld (11th), Antonio Pizzonia (22nd.), four podium places, one pole position (Heidfeld, European GP);

2006 5th place FIA Formula One Constructors’ World Championship,BMW Sauber F1 Team, Nick Heidfeld (9th), Jacques Villeneuve (15th),Robert Kubica (16th), two podium places

2007 2nd place FIA Formula One Constructors’ World Championship,BMW Sauber F1 Team, Nick Heidfeld (5th), Robert Kubica (6th), two podium places.

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