Ernest Knoors founded Team MTEK after a career that included roles within the BMW Sauber Formula One operation and later at Scuderia Ferrari, where he was responsible for customer engines supplied to Scuderia Toro Rosso, Sauber, and other teams. He returned to BMW in 2012 to establish Team MTEK as a DTM entry. BMW rejoined the DTM in 2012 and Team MTEK joined for the following season alongside the other BMW-supported outfits Team RMG, Team RBM, and Team Schnitzer.
For its debut DTM season Team MTEK fielded two drivers new to the series: Timo Glock, who had departed Formula One at the end of 2012, and Marco Wittmann, a former Formula 3 Euro Series race winner who had contested the VLN championship in a BMW in 2012. The team's first double podium came at the Red Bull Ring, where Wittmann finished second and Glock third. Glock went on to win the season finale at the Hockenheimring. Team MTEK finished seventh in the team championship, third among the four BMW-affiliated outfits.
Glock was retained for 2014 while Wittmann departed, replaced by António Félix da Costa. BMW simultaneously introduced the BMW M4 DTM in place of the BMW M3 DTM. The team struggled with the transition: Glock's best result was third place at the Red Bull Ring, while Félix da Costa scored points on only two occasions across his rookie season. The team finished eleventh in the team standings.
Bruno Spengler, the 2012 DTM champion, joined Team MTEK in 2015 after leaving Mercedes-Benz's HWA Team. Spengler delivered six podium finishes and ended the season fifth in the drivers' championship. Glock contributed a race win at Oschersleben. The team climbed to fourth in the team standings, its strongest DTM result across the three-season campaign.
Following the DTM programme, Team MTEK spent a period developing the BMW M8 GTE before running two examples for BMW in the WEC Super Season, which spanned 2018 into 2019. The team entered the #81 and #82 cars across the championship. The #81 was driven by Nick Catsburg and Martin Tomczyk, with Alexander Sims joining as third driver at endurance events. The #82 was driven by Augusto Farfus and António Félix da Costa, with Bruno Spengler joining at Sebring for his WEC debut.
Team MTEK recorded two podium finishes during the Super Season. The #81 finished second in the LM GTE Pro class at the 1000 Miles of Sebring in March 2019, with Catsburg, Tomczyk, and Sims at the wheel. The team had also taken second place at Fuji. The season finale at the 2019 24 Hours of Le Mans was more difficult: the #82 of Jesse Krohn, Félix da Costa, and Farfus finished eleventh, while the #81 of Tomczyk, Catsburg, and Philipp Eng finished fourteenth, both cars losing time to technical problems during the night hours. Victory in the LM GTE Pro class at Le Mans went to the Ferrari entry.
BMW had announced in May 2019 that the Le Mans finale would be its last WEC race, with the company redirecting its M8 GTE efforts toward the IMSA programme. With no further assignment from BMW materialising, team principal Knoors stated in late 2019 that the team was seeking new opportunities, preferably within the WEC. The Munich headquarters was closed and the operation relocated to the Netherlands. The team's formal relationship with BMW concluded in November 2019.