Christoph Sagemuller, who has led Mercedes-AMG’s motorsport division since March 2021, will step down on the finish of the month and hand over his put up by 1 July.
“I can verify that Christoph Sagemuller will go away the corporate at his personal request and by mutual settlement on the finish of this month,” a Mercedes-AMG spokesperson defined.
The information comes as a shock, as Mercedes insiders had anticipated Sagemuller, who has been with the corporate since 2011, to finally tackle a better place throughout the Daimler Group. As an alternative, nonetheless, it’s understood that he’ll go away the corporate completely and has apparently already discovered a brand new function elsewhere.
Mercedes-AMG workers have already been knowledgeable, and his succession has additionally been settled. “Simon Wilbers will take over the place of head of Mercedes-AMG motorsport throughout the organisation,” the Mercedes-AMG spokesperson clarified.
Successor beforehand reported on to Sagemuller
The German has been with Mercedes-AMG since March 2018. Since 2023, he has headed the advertising and marketing division throughout the Mercedes-AMG motorsport division and, as of February 2025, was additionally chargeable for industrial and partnerships.
This positioned him straight under Sagemuller within the Mercedes-AMG motorsport hierarchy, which consists of three pillars on the second stage: the shopper racing division led by Stefan Wendl; the technique, product administration, and communications division underneath the management of Julian Reiss; and the advertising and marketing and industrial division underneath Simon Wilbers, who’s now being promoted to go of motorsport.
Christoph Sagemüller (pictured right here with Maro Engel) is not going to stay AMG Head of Motorsport for for much longer
Picture: Mercedes-Benz AG
On this function, he’s chargeable for the complete motorsport division at Mercedes-AMG, aside from the Method 1 venture led by Toto Wolff. This contains GT3 racing in addition to different areas of buyer racing.
Main challenges for the brand new head of motorsport
The model with the three-pointed star has been very profitable just lately, as evidenced by victories on this 12 months’s editions of the Nurburgring 24 Hours and the Bathurst 12 Hour, in addition to the lead within the total DTM standings. Moreover, a particular coup was achieved this 12 months with the addition of Verstappen Racing and four-time F1 world champion Max Verstappen, who competes for arch-rival Pink Bull in grand prix racing.
Except for this, nonetheless, there are main challenges reminiscent of the event of the successor to the present Mercedes-AMG GT3 and the transition from HWA AG to the 100% subsidiary Affalterbach Racing GmbH, which – as rumours counsel – will not be continuing completely with out friction.
Not like manufacturers reminiscent of BMW or Audi, Mercedes-AMG had beforehand outsourced the vast majority of its GT programme, as Hans-Werner Aufrecht’s firm was chargeable for the event, manufacturing, spare elements provide, and assist of the automobiles till the tip of 2025.
Wendl will proceed to function head of the shopper racing programme regardless of the inner restructuring, Mercedes-AMG confirmed. Due to this fact, “the present obligations and methods of working on this space stay unchanged.”
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