Robert Thiele Awarded BMW Sports Trophy For Second Consecutive Year

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 April 6 2010

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 BMW  Awarded  SCCA  Racer  Robert  Thiele BMW Sports Trophy For Second
 Consecutive Year

 Robert  Thiele  scored  11th  place in the global BMW privateer driver
 competition, and was the only US driver in top 25 award ranks

 SCCA Jersey Racing Board demonstrates continued momentum with 2010 SCCA
 TeamDI.com ProIT Series season starting April 10th, 2010 at New Hampshire
 Motor Speedway, Loudon, NH.


 (Dover, NJ, April 6, 2010) - Robert Thiele, from Cambridge, Massachusetts,
 was awarded a BMW Sports Trophy for the second year in a row finishing 11th
 overall in BMW's 2009 competition. This is a nice addition to the BMW Sports
 Trophy  he  was  awarded   for 25th place in 2008. Robert Thiele raced
 successfully   in   SCCA   (Sports  Car  Club  of  America)  with  his
 BMWMotorsportCollection.com BMW 325is celebrating a second place in the
 TeamDI Pro IT Series, with a second place in the North Atlantic Road Racing
 Championship (NARRC) and a Championship win in the New Jersey Road Racing
 Series (NJRRS).

 The top 25 BMW privateer drivers were honored by BMW Motorsport Director
 Mario Theissen and BMW works drivers at the annual Sports Trophy event and
 celebration in Munich on December 5th, 2009. Other 2009 BMW Sports Trophy
 winners included Colin Turkington, who won this season's British Touring Car
 Championship (BTCC) in a BMW 320si WTCC and ranked first place overall,
 Swedish Touring Car pilots Richard Goeransson (second) and Thed Bjoerk
 (third), BTCC driver Robert Collard (fourth), as well as last years overall
 winner, World Touring Car championship (WTCC) privateer Franz Engstler
 (fifth).

 Just like 2008, Robert Thiele was the only representative from the USA to be
 awarded a 2009 Sports Trophy. Thiele's teammates from the BMW racing team
 Auto Technic in New Milford, Connecticut, scored impressive 35th (Jeff
 Henderson)  and  49th  (Rob Driscoll) places in the global competition
 underlining the team's successful track record.

  Other  USA  contestants  in  the  top  50  included Matthew Bell (KONI
 Challenge)26th, Seth Thomas (World Challenge) 32nd and Chris Gleason (KONI
 Challenge) 46th.

 At the 2009 Sports Trophy Awards Ceremony in Munich, BMW also followed the
 tradition to release details of the forthcoming year's motorsports programs.
 For 2010 BMW will intensify its involvement in GT and touring car racing and
 continue to focus on the growing BMW Sports Trophy program. The BMW Sports
 Trophy 2010 information has been released on the BMW Motorsport website and
 applications for the current season are now open.

 Robert Thiele commented, "The BMW Sports Trophy program and BMW's support
 for privateer racers are outstanding. I am honored to receive a BMW Sports
 Trophy for the second year in a row and again become part of a field of
 drivers who demonstrated their performance in a diverse range of racing
 series in the US, Europe, Asia and South Africa. I hope that more drivers in
 SCCA  and other US racing series become aware of this outstanding free
 program and participate in 2010. Iā€™d also like to thank all the regions who
 put  together  the  North  Atlantic Road Racing Championship for their
 outstanding  level  of  professionalism  conducting  racing across the
 Northeastern  US.  My special thanks go to the Jersey Racing Board for
 creating such a great momentum organizing the growing TeamDI Pro IT Series
 and the NJRRS."

 Robert Thiele was represented at the awards ceremony in Munich by his father
 Gunter Thiele due to a scheduling conflict. Robert Thiele's son, Maximilian,
 was born November 30th, adding another future BMW racer to the team.

 _About_
 The Jersey Racing Board (JRB) is the official overseer of the NJRRSSM and
 the TeamDI.com Pro IT Series. The Northern New Jersey Region and South
 Jersey Region of the SCCA make up the JRB.
 Contact:

 _Contact:_

 SCCA Jersey Racing Board
 Darrell Anthony
 973 697-5871
 treasurer@scca-nnjr.org
 http://www.njrrs.com
 http://www.proitseries.com/

 Robert Thiele
 781 354-2696
 rob@motorsportcollection.com




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