Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing gathered their “World’s Fastest Family” in the stunning surroundings of Stuttgart’s Mercedes Benz museum on Saturday night to look back on the 2024 season.
The gala evening, dubbed ‘Champions United’, saw 2024 successes recognised with 56 titles, 120 overall victories and 151 class victories fall to the 108 GT2, GT3 and GT4 drivers and teams representing the brand with 1,743 entries in Africa, America, Asia, Australia and Europe and a total of 224,272 kilometres covered on 101 race tracks in 34 countries.
Amongst the headline results, Mercedes-AMG won its 15th manufacturers’ championship in the DTM. Maro Engel won the FIA GT World Cup in Macau, the ninth success to date for Mercedes-AMG on the legendary street circuit.
Mercedes-AMG also took first place in the intercontinental manufacturers’ championship of the Fanatec GT World Challenge Powered by AWS – for the sixth time in a row. At the CrowdStrike 24 Hours of Spa, Mercedes-AMG also celebrated a major title. The brand was awarded the “Coupe Du Roi” as the most successful manufacturer.
In the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, the Mercedes-AMG GT3 won all six possible GTD titles with the manufacturers’ championships in the overall standings and in the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup.
Winward Racing with Indy Dontje, Philip Ellis and Russell Ward took the drivers’ and teams’ championships in the overall and endurance classifications.
Michael Schiebe (Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes‑AMG GmbH), Christoph Sagemüller (Head of Mercedes-AMG Motorsport) and Stefan Wendl (Head of Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing) were allow hand to greet the winners on stage in the anniversary year of ‘130 Years of Mercedes-Benz Motorsport’ and to present prizes for the winners of the brand-internal Customer Racing Championship.
Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing Championship
The Mercedes-AMG Customer Racing Championship, which was held for the first time in 2014, is a brand-internal championship.
All Customer Racing teams and drivers of legal age who contested official races with a Mercedes-AMG GT3, GT4 or GT2 between October 2023 and October 2024 were eligible to participate.
Entries with extended factory support are not eligible.
Over 400 drivers and more than 100 teams competed this year.
Ten categories (eight driver and two team classifications) saw a total of 35 drivers and teams honoured with joint winners in the GT2 Driver and two joint third place finishers in the GT4 Pro Driver categories.
Points were awarded according to the 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4-2-1 system commonly used in international motorsport, with points then being multiplied by a defined factor depending on the level and the respective format of the competition.
In the drivers’ championship, separate classifications were held for the GT3, GT4 and GT2 cars. The Pro Driver classifications account for drivers with platinum, gold or silver FIA rankings.
The Driver classifications saw Bronze-ranked drivers recognised too.
The top 3 drivers and the top 5 teams in each of the classifications were awarded high-quality prizes from Mercedes AMG partners Canyon, IWC, MSI, PUMA and RAVENOL.
Top of the tree with the main prize in both the Overall Driver and Overall Pro Driver classifications was a Mercedes-AMG CLE 53 4MATIC+ Coupé.
Charles Dawson and Russell Ward took the honours.
Charles Dawson took the GT4 Pro-Am title with Team Parker Racing in the British GT Championship and had race winning success too with the NM Racing Team in the GT4 European Series Powered by RAFA Racing Club.
Russell Ward won the GTD championship title in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship with Winward Racing in the Mercedes-AMG GT3.
- Overall Pro Driver: Russell Ward
- Overall Driver: Charles Dawson
- Pro Driver GT3: Russell Ward
- Driver GT3: Hubert Haupt
- Pro Driver GT2: Loris Hezemans
- Driver GT2: Jean-Luc Beaubelique & Gilles Vannelet
- Pro Driver GT4: Joel Mesch
- Driver GT4: Charles Dawson
- Team GT3: GetSpeed
- Team GT2/GT4: NM Racing Team
Michael Schiebe, Chairman of the Board of Management of Mercedes‑AMG GmbH: “Mercedes-AMG and motorsport have always belonged together and it is impressive to see how the AMG family successfully showcases the racing cars from Affalterbach worldwide – this year with 271 race victories. The end-of-season gala is our way of thanking the teams and drivers for these achievements. The passion and commitment of our customers motivates us as a brand to continue to ambitiously drive the Customer Racing Programme forward.”
Christoph Sagemüller, Head of Mercedes-AMG Motorsport: “We can look back on a successful 2024 motorsport season. We spent an unforgettable evening with over 200 invited guests at the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart. I am delighted that we were able to present the provisional 2025 line-up to our customers in such a worthy setting and to welcome two new members to the ‘World’s Fastest Family’ in Maxime Martin and Jayden Ojeda.”
