Jan 30th, 2012
Today BMW Motorsport showed off the first of the six liveries the new BMW M3 DTM will be wearing. BMW will relaunch in DTM with three teams and 6 driver’s, each sporting an individual livery. Castrol/Aral and BMW Motorsport have created a fine looking car and we can’t wait to see it out on the track this season.
Official Release:
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Jan 18th, 2012
Official Release: Title-holder BMW enters into the new season of the American Le Mans Series with a team of experienced drivers. Dirk Müller (DE) and Joey Hand (US) will represent BMW Team RLL as reigning GT champions. As in the past three seasons, Bill Auberlen (US) will also start in a BMW M3 GT. New to the team are 2001 ALMS GT champion Jörg Müller (DE) and Uwe Alzen (DE). The sixth driver will be announced at a later date.
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Dec 24th, 2011
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After a very long break we’re back with another big show. First up we recap the last two months of BMW news starting of course with the 6er Gran Coupe and then quickly moving onto the F30 and next generation M3. We round out the news with some thought on DTM and the future of BMW’s racing programs. But this show is all about our personal highs and lows of the year with Michael and I dishing a few surprises.
Here’s the full list of news recapped (after the break).
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Nov 29th, 2011
On Saturday, November 26th, professional and privateer BMW racers attended the annual BMW Motorsport banquet in Munich and North American BMW teams and drivers were well represented to celebrate this season’s championships.
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Nov 27th, 2011
BMW Motorsport used the 50th BMW Sports Trophy Award Ceremony to announce further details of next year’s programme. The focus is firmly on the return to the DTM after an absence of almost 20 years. However, perhaps more important for the US market, BMW has firmly committed to campaigning it’s RLL ALMS team for 2012.
At the ceremony in the Double Cone building at Munich’s BMW Welt, BMW Motorsport Director Jens Marquardt presented the latest addition to the team of DTM drivers, the newly crowned DTM champion Martin Tomczyk (DE). Tomczyk will join Andy Priaulx (GB), Augusto Farfus (BR) and Bruno Spengler (CA), who have already been confirmed as BMW drivers, behind the wheel of a BMW M3 DTM in the coming season. The BMW Sports Trophy will be even more important next year: The winner of the annual BMW privateer competition will be rewarded with a test day in the BMW M3 DTM from 2012.
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Nov 23rd, 2011
The current 1.6L MINI engine wasn’t quite born out of the strange bed-fellow partnership that the previous power plant was. The Tritec came to MINI from of Chrysler (where it was engineered and designed in Detroit) via Brazil (where it was produced). It just so happened that it turned out to be a robust and characterful power plant that suited the R50 and R53 rather well.
In comparison the Prince family of engines has quite the pedigree. Designed and engineered by key members of the same team that had just finished work on the famed M54 inline six BMW engine, the Prince engines introduced MINI to a number of new technologies. BMW even enlisted the help of the then BMW F1 team and some of their engineers when it came to a few key components within the JCW version.
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Nov 17th, 2011
While the eyes of the motoring press have been on LA this week, BMW Motorsport has been busy finishing a test of the New M3 DTM car in Spain. The big news? An “acute gastrointestinal” issue that rendered several team members incapacitated. Thankfully the Mercedes(!) team doctor was available for treatment. No we are not making this stuff up. Check out the official release (the first one we’ve seen to feature the term “gastro-intestinal”) after the break.
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Nov 7th, 2011
Consider this your friendly and official BimmerFile reminder about the other must see racing documentary of 2011. We wrote about the movie and showed you the trailer this summer, but now it’s officially out on DVD and Blueray.
“24 Hours. One Team. One Target.” is a new film that following BMW’s race at the 2011 24 Hours of the Nüburgring. The team of filmmakers were granted an all access pass to the team and the cars leading up to and during the race. The results are unlike anything we’ve ever seen before when it comes to a 24 Hour race at the ‘Ring.
The film (produced by Stereoscreen) will be out in theaters in Europe this fall and available now on DVD and Blue-ray. You can check out the original trailer after the break.
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