
BMW M3 E92 DTM #22 T. Glock BMW Team MTEK DTM 2013 Minichamps 1:43

Specifications
- Car Brand
- BMW
- Model Manufacturer
- Minichamps
- Scale
- 1:43
- Material
- Diecast
- Model Condition
- New Model
- SKU
- 410132222
- Year
- 2013
- Era
- 2010s
- Body Type
- Touring Models
- Vehicle Class
- DTM German Touring
- Openable Parts
- No
- Packaging Condition
- New
- Model Type
- Race Models
- EAN / GTIN
- 4012138120808
About the BMW M3 E92 DTM #22 T. Glock BMW Team MTEK DTM 2013 Minichamps 1:43
TL;DR: Minichamps' 1:43 BMW M3 DTM reproduces Timo Glock's #22 car for BMW Team MTEK in the 2013 DTM season, the final year of the E92-based M3 racer. Sealed diecast body carries tampo-printed sponsor livery. A focused piece for collectors following BMW's factory DTM return.
BMW's factory return to DTM in 2012 reset German touring car racing after years away, and by 2013 the M3 DTM programme had matured into a genuine title threat across three works teams. Minichamps captures Timo Glock's Team MTEK entry from that season, a car that carried BMW's comeback story through its final year before the M4 took over.
Timo Glock's BMW M3 DTM for Team MTEK
BMW's Factory Return to DTM
BMW stepped away from DTM for close to two decades before returning as a full factory effort in 2012, fielding the M3 DTM across three squads run under the BMW Motorsport umbrella: Team RBM, Team RMG, and Team MTEK. The E92-based M3 DTM shared its silhouette with the road car in name only, built to the series' technical regulations with a tubular structure, aerodynamic package, and V8 engine mandated for the class. By 2013 the programme had gone from a comeback story to a genuine contender, with BMW machinery competing squarely against the established Audi and Mercedes factory efforts.
Car #22 in the 2013 Season
Timo Glock joined BMW's DTM effort after a career in Formula 1, campaigning car #22 for Team MTEK through the 2013 season. That year was the last for the E92 M3 DTM before BMW moved its factory effort to the new M4-based car for 2014, making this livery a snapshot of the final chapter in BMW's first-generation DTM comeback machine. Minichamps' choice of this specific car and season gives a collector a defined moment in BMW's modern motorsport history, rather than a generic 'BMW race car' with no context behind the number on the door.
Minichamps' Livery Accuracy on a Sealed Racing Body
Tampo Printing and Sponsor Registration
The sponsor graphics are tampo-printed directly onto the body rather than applied as raised decals, which keeps the surface flat and avoids the silvering that cheaper transfer methods show under close light. Registration across the door number, team colours, and sponsor panels needs to be precise on a DTM subject, since a modern touring car's livery carries dozens of small logos across curved surfaces, and any misalignment is immediately obvious to anyone who followed the real season.
Aero Detail Cast Into the Shell
The body is a sealed, one-piece diecast casting, which suits a modern DTM silhouette well: the wide arches, front splitter, and rear wing profile are all captured as cast detail rather than assembled from separate parts, keeping the aggressive aerodynamic shape consistent and free of the seams a multi-piece build would risk. Zinc alloy gives the casting the weight a serious 1:43 racing subject should have, and the metal shell holds those sharp aero lines without the softening a lower-tolerance material can introduce around a car's most visually important surfaces, the splitter and diffuser edges.
A Piece for a DTM-Focused Collection
A DTM collection built around BMW's factory return benefits from marking specific seasons rather than collecting anonymous liveries, and Glock's 2013 MTEK car does exactly that: it closes out the E92 M3 era just before the M4 took over the following year. Displayed alongside a later M4 DTM subject, it lets a collector trace BMW's silhouette evolution across a single generational change, a comparison that says more about the manufacturer's engineering direction than either car does alone. The accessible 1:43 diecast price point makes building that kind of season-by-season DTM lineup realistic in a way a full-size 1:18 collection rarely allows on the same budget.















