BMW presented in Daytona anniversary designs

BMW presented in Daytona anniversary designs

BMW presented in Daytona anniversary designs

BMW has announced on Wednesday the designs of the two BMW M6 GTLM with which the team of Team RLL will contest the 24 Hours of Daytona at the weekend. This is also the first round of the IMSA series in 2016. The car with the starting number 25 is reminiscent of the legendary BMW 3.0 CSL which his first racing season in North America in 1975 and denied 40 years ago took care of the first BMW victory in Daytona. The second BMW M6 GTLM will compete with the starting number 100th Its design takes the occasion of the 100th birthday of BMW this year have a look into the future.

"The first highlight of the year, the 24 Hours of Daytona, is imminent - and the presentation today was the perfect match for the racing premiere of the BMW M6 GTLM and the BMW M6 GT3," said BMW Motorsport Director Jens Marquardt. "The start of the season the IMSA is also the prelude to a year of special anniversaries. I hope that the fans like special designs of our BMW M6 GTLM the 100th birthday of BMW and our successful motorsport history in North America."

"In any case, we cheer together with our team after many months of intensive testing and development phase to the first race in Daytona contrary. We know that our likeness expects an absolute hardness test. But the challenge we have been and believe we are well prepared" so Marquardt.

Four icons of BMW's motorsport history can be found in the design of the BMW M6 GTLM with the number 25 again. The first vehicle is presented the BMW 3.0 CSL with start number 25, the BMW 1975 was able to celebrate his first major race win in the United States at the 12 Hours of Sebring and a year later also won in Daytona. The second picture shows the BMW M1 from 1980 and 1981. This vehicle is significant not only because of its racing history. It was also the first independently developed by BMW Motorsport GmbH sports cars.

In the third race car pictured is the BMW V12 LMR, the victorious crossed the finish line at the endurance classics in Le Mans and Sebring 1999th The BMW V12 LMR was one of the most advanced sports prototypes of his time. The fourth and final picture shows the BMW M3 GT in the years 2011 and 2012, of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) in its class won all titles in the Season 2011.

The start number 100 attracts attention with its distinctive grille design to be. It creates a new kind of 3D effect with reflective vinyl that has been applied to the white ground. Both vehicles will go in the season 2016, the IMSA series in their anniversary designs at the start, for the first time at the 54th edition of the 24 Hours of Daytona.

For the upcoming season in the IMSA series BMW has wrapped his two M6 GTLM in special robes. Already in the 24 Hours of Daytona this weekend (30th / 31st of January.) You will take it.

The BMW plant program in the IMSA series this season will turn out not only with a new car model, but also with two very special finishes. Reason: The Bavarian company celebrates its 100th birthday this year.

One of the two BMW M6 GTLM bears the start number 25 - as in BMW's first big race in North America in 1975. This car is painted in honor of the motorsport history of the brand with the propeller logo. It shows images of four racers:

The 3.0 CSL, the BMW 1975, the won Sebring 12 Hour race. The BMW M1 between 1980 and 1981. So the first M car of Munich. The V12 LMR, with the BMW (somewhat surprisingly) won in 1999 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Just as (what many do not know) in the same year with Tom Kristensen, Jörg Müller and JJ Lehto at the 12 Hours of Sebring. With this model you denied until the end of 2000, the American Le Mans Series (ALMS) and was also at the European trip of the series at that time while on the Nürburgring. The fourth image is the M3 GT in the years 2011/2012. So the pre-predecessor of the current M6 GTLM, with the BMW over her still active American use Team RLL (Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing) in the ALMS was traveling.

Contrary to the car with start number 25, looks at the car with the 100 (start number for the company's anniversary) in the future. The significance of the striking vehicle designs, held in lattice structure, however, should crystallize until later in year out.

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The cars are driven by (no. 25) Bill Auberlen, Dirk Werner and the two DTM drivers Augusto Farfus and Bruno Spengler. And (no. 100) Lucas Luhr, John Edwards, Kuno Wittmer and Graham Rahal. When 'Roar', the official pre-test of the 24 Hours of Daytona, sat Lucas Luhr with 1: 45.088 minutes, the fastest time of all GTLM racer. The car's first homologated only for IMSA series and therefore can not compete in the FIA ​​WEC or in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Like its sister model, the BMW M6 GT3, it is powered by a 4.4-liter V8 twin turbo engine.