Team Bert Anderwald
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| Full Name | Team Bert Anderwald |
| Base | Salzburg, Austria |
| Founder(s) | Bert Anderwald |
| Team Principal(s) | Bert Anderwald |
| Technical Director | |
| Current Lineup | |
 Monika Flater James Wilmington
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Team Bert Anderwald, alternatively TBA, is an Austrian racing team founded by former driver Bert Anderwald, that is active in various series like the ARWS, World Endurance Championship and ADAC GT Masters. TBA once participated in Formula One, DTM, German Formula 3, and British Formula 3.
Early years (1960-62)
TBA was founded by the Anderwald family in 1960, to give Bert Anderwald a seat for him to rise through the motorsport ladder. The team’s first races were karting events and other small-scale racing series. At this point, the team was a one-car outfit centered entirely around Bert, with its employees being family members or acquaintances of the Anderwalds.
Formula Three (1963-65)
Bert Anderwald’s victory in the German Karting Championship attracted backing from Kurt Konertz and his agricultural equipment company, Eidechse Technik. They provided additional staff, knowledge, and facilities to help Team Bert Anderwald contend in major championships. TBA would enter the 1963 German Formula Three Championship, under the entrant name of “Eidechse-Anderwald Rennsport”, fielding the four-wheel drive Eidechse EF-J63 with Bert driving. Bert was fairly competitive, but the series folded after the 1963 season, forcing the team to compete elsewhere.
Eidechse offered to pay for a move to the UK to participate in British Formula Three, which the Anderwald family accepted. Eidechse-Anderwald Rennsport would field two EF-364 cars, with Bert at the wheel of one of them, alongside Scotsman Henry Ingledew, who would mentor Bert on British circuits. The duo finished 7th and 8th in the drivers’ championship, with Ingledew ahead by a point. This lineup was retained for 1965, and they found even more success, with Ingledew third and Anderwald just missing out on the championship by two points.
Formula One (1966-67)
1966
Encouraged by 1965, the team agreed that they were ready for Formula One. Eidechse would run a single four-wheel drive EF-166 shared by Ingledew and Anderwald in selected Grands Prix.
1967
Eidechse-Anderwald expanded to two cars for 1967, with Anderwald and Ingledew seeing out the European season. As offers from bigger teams began to come Bert’s way, the Anderwald family would split from Eidechse at the end of 1967. This marked the end of Team Bert Anderwald’s involvement in Formula One.
Sportscar racing (1976-)
Following Bert Anderwald’s retirement from F1, TBA began its long-running sportscar effort, in which Bert served as owner-driver, until his final race at the 2004 24 Hours of Le Mans. The team would become a staple of the World Sportscar Championship and Le Mans, notably serving as the thorn in Audi’s side throughout their era of dominance. TBA was a loyal Porsche customer, and could be counted on to race in the highest class with Porsche's offering, be it a 911, 935, 956, or 962. After Porsche withdrew from Le Mans in 1999, TBA rekindled its partnership with Eidechse to build prototypes for the top class. In the early 2000s, the Eidechse ELM-series was a fairly successful LMP900 car that could challenge Audi on a good day. However, Eidecshe struggled to adapt to the 2012 hybrid regulations. Consequently, Team Bert Anderwald significantly scaled back their sportscar efforts in 2015, only attending Le Mans and regional events due to skyrocketing costs and the team’s belief that the WEC had become far too manufacturer-focused. However, in 2024, TBA announced a return to the WEC full-time as a customer team running Porsche 963s.
Premier1 GP (2004-??)
Team Bert Anderwald participated in the ill-fated Premier1 GP series, a one-make competition using Prost AP05-derived cars entered by teams representing various football clubs. Anderwald's cars represented SK Sturm Graz, Brest, and Newry City FC, where Connor O'Lynch impressed for Newry.
DTM (1993-1996, 2016-2022)
Team Bert Anderwald joined the DTM championship in 1993, initially as a substitute for the team's sportscar efforts, as the WSC had collapsed. TBA found success running Mercedes cars, winning races with the advanced C-Class touring car in 1996 in the series' final year before its demise. With the WSC finding its successor in the FIA GT Championship, TBA initially did not return to DTM for its 2000 revival.
Two decades later, the world of sportscars found itself yet again in a less-than-ideal state, according to Bert Anderwald. TBA rejoined DTM in 2016, taking over the assets of Eidechse's DTM outfit, with a noted goal of nurturing Bert's junior drivers. One such driver was Monika Flater, whose single-seater career was floundering. Flater would emerge as the DTM champion in 2021. Despite this success, TBA would withdraw from DTM before the 2023 season. This was done to concentrate efforts on the ARWS, and also because Bert Anderwald himself disapproved of the DTM “losing its identity” by abandoning the silhouette touring car regulations in favor of affordable GTC cars.
AutoReject World Series (2023-)
The reestablishment of the ARWS in 2023 created openings for new teams. Team Bert Anderwald was one of the many teams completely new to the ARWS joining for the first time.
2023
Monika Flater finally got her chance in the big leagues of open-wheelers, signing for TBA alongside European F3 runner-up James Wilmington.