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In 2018, BMW will return to Le Mans. It"ll be 19 years after its first and only outright victory at la Sarthe, though this time BMW is going after GT-class silverware, rather than prototype glory.The confirmed commitment to enter the FIA World Endurance Championship, of which Le Mans is the calendar"s flagship event, has been announced as part of BMW"s new motorsport strategy, which focuses on production-based cars" (i.e. stuff that looks like road-legal M4s and whathaveyou, not single-seater open wheel stuff). BMW will continue to duke it out with Mercedes-AMG and Audi in DTM, add the M4 GT4 to its customer racecar roster, and maintain Mini"s winning involvement with the punishing Dakar rally. The exact nature of its Le Mans entry is still a secret, but it"s interesting to see big guns getting stuck back into endurance racing following Ford"s birthday win with the GT in 2016. Still some life in building fast, loud cars that go quickly in circles, thenMeanwhile, BMW"s dipping a toe in the water of electric motorsport. Munich"s motorsport masterplan includes two seasons of support for Mario Andretti"s Formula E team. Support" means "cooperation at engineer level and the mutual use of resources" rather than waving banners and sounding klaxon horns here, but BMW"s serious about entering the championship with a full works team.
Date written: 27 Sep 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 5178
In 2018, BMW will return to Le Mans. It"ll be 19 years after its first and only outright victory at la Sarthe, though this time BMW is going after GT-class silverware, rather than prototype glory.The confirmed commitment to enter the FIA World Endurance Championship, of which Le Mans is the calendar"s flagship event, has been announced as part of BMW"s new motorsport strategy, which focuses on production-based cars" (i.e. stuff that looks like road-legal M4s and whathaveyou, not single-seater open wheel stuff). BMW will continue to duke it out with Mercedes-AMG and Audi in DTM, add the M4 GT4 to its customer racecar roster, and maintain Mini"s winning involvement with the punishing Dakar rally. The exact nature of its Le Mans entry is still a secret, but it"s interesting to see big guns getting stuck back into endurance racing following Ford"s birthday win with the GT in 2016. Still some life in building fast, loud cars that go quickly in circles, thenMeanwhile, BMW"s dipping a toe in the water of electric motorsport. Munich"s motorsport masterplan includes two seasons of support for Mario Andretti"s Formula E team. Support" means "cooperation at engineer level and the mutual use of resources" rather than waving banners and sounding klaxon horns here, but BMW"s serious about entering the championship with a full works team.
Date written: 27 Sep 2016
More of this article on the Top gear website
ID: 5178
