page_title: Wiechers-Sport
section_title: BMW 320si (E90) (2007–2010)
hierarchical_section_title: Wiechers-Sport / World Touring Car Championship / BMW 320si (E90) (2007–2010)
caption_attribution_description: English: Matthew Marsh driving his BMW at Macau's WTCC race.
context_page_description: Wiechers-Sport is a German auto racing team which is based in Nienburg. The team was first established in 1999, competing in German touring cars. The team currently competes in the World Touring Car Championship.
context_section_description: In 2007, Italian driver Stefano D'Aste won the WTCC independents trophy again as a Wiechers-Sport driver.
  For the 2008 season, a total of six drivers drove for the team in selected rounds including Olivier Tielemans, Duncan Huisman and Matthew Marsh.
  After a year at Proteam Motorsport, D'Aste returned to Wiechers-Sport for the 2009 season. D'Aste crashed out of the first race of the season at the Race of Brazil and finished 20th in the second race. He broke through into the top five of the Yokohama Drivers' Trophy at the second round. French GT Championship driver Laurent Cazenave joined Wiechers-Sport for the Race of France alongside D'Aste. D'Aste came close to securing the race two pole position at the Race of Spain after a battle with Sergio Hernández. The team did however go on to take the independents' victory in race two. D'Aste recorded two more independent victories at the Race of Portugal. The team scored their first points of the season at the Race of Germany when D'Aste finished seventh, this later became sixth when Nicola Larini was given 30–second penalty. D'Aste collided with Scuderia Proteam Motorsport driver Fabio Fabiani in free practice for the Race of Italy before going on to take the independents' pole position in qualifying and the independent victory in race two. Japanese driver Seiji Ara joined the team for the Race of Japan in a second car. Takayuki Aoki took over the second car for the Race of Macau season finale. D'Aste stopped on track during the first part of qualifying and on the narrow street circuit, Lada Sport driver James Thompson crashed into the stationary BMW. The extensive damage from the collision ruled D'Aste to sit out both races while Thompson was taken to hospital. This left Aoki is the team's only entry for the rest of the weekend, scoring a best result of sixteenth in race two. The team finished the season fourth in the Yokohama Teams' Trophy while D'Aste dropped to fourth in the drivers' trophy having missed the final round.
  With D'Aste returning to Proteam, Mehdi Bennani joined the team as their main driver for the 2010 season. Bennani dropped for seventh to ninth on the last lap of race two at the Race of Morocco but still took the team's first independent victory of the season. Bennani originally finished tenth and took the independent victory in race one of the Race of Italy but after the race was given a 30-second penalty for cutting the first chicane on the opening lap, handing tenth place and a first Independents' Trophy victory to Harry Vaulkhard. He was then given a driver–through penalty in race two for jumping the start. The Race of UK saw Bennani black flagged in the second practice session for repeatedly exceeding the track limits before going on to have an eventful race two. He tapped Franz Engstler into a spin before later putting Darryl O'Young into the gravel. Benanni was penalised again after the second race of the Race of the Czech Republic having caused a collision. He was then one of twelve drivers to receive a post race 30–second penalty for breaking the speed limit during the rolling start at the team's home race in Germany. The team added an extra car for the Race of Japan to run local driver Masataka Yanagida. After the Race of Macau, Wiechers-Sport finished fifth in the teams' standings while Bennani also finished fifth in the independents' championship having been as high as third earlier on in the season.
caption: Matthew Marsh driving for Wiechers-Sport at the 2008 Race of Macau.
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