Proteam Motorsport is an Italian auto racing team based in Arezzo that was set up by former driver Valmiro Presenzini in 1997.
Proteam lost out on the teams title to GR Asia, who had trophy winner Tom Coronel driving for them.
Rangoni left the WTCC after 2007, and this led to a return to Proteam for D'Aste,[2] the defending independent champion.
When D'Aste failed to attend the final rounds at Macau, due to a protest for a grid penalty, he was replaced by Bulgarian George Tanev.
[3] Hernández won the independents trophy, and Proteam successfully defended the teams title.
[4] With Hernández gone to the works BMW Team Italy-Spain and D'Aste gone to Wiechers-Sport, Proteam needed two new drivers for 2009.
[7] Tanev left the championship after the third round and guest appearances were made late in the season by Fabio Fabiani and Nobuteru Taniguchi.