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Old 19 Feb 2005, 11:18 (Ref:1230068)   #1
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BMW sets its sights on the Nürburgring 24 Hours again
One more time: BMW will again be fielding its two BMW M3 GTRs in the Nürburgring 24 Hour Race on 7th/8th May. It will mark the final season for the two muscle cars [, but then they launch the M6 ] that claimed a one-two win in 2004.


The seven-man BMW squad [!] for the marathon on the legendary Nordschleife has been named: the winners of 2004, BMW works drivers Dirk Müller and Jörg Müller, along with Hans-Joachim Stuck are in the team, as are last year’s three runners-up – Duncan Huisman, Pedro Lamy and Boris Said. Team BMW Motorsport led by Charly Lamm gets notable backing from Andy Priaulx, the reigning European Touring Car Champion and BMW works driver in the 2005 FIA World Touring Car Championship (WTCC).
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Old 19 Feb 2005, 12:22 (Ref:1230099)   #2
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Leave that M6 in the garage and keep racing the M3GTR.
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Old 19 Feb 2005, 12:35 (Ref:1230105)   #3
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I agree Red Bullet - IF BMW were to ever homlogate the M3 GTR. Unfortunatly thats not going to happen, the M6 however will, and will therefore be eligable for the LMES and the ALMS as well as FIA GT and of course Le Mans. Its for the best really.
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Old 19 Feb 2005, 13:40 (Ref:1230129)   #4
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give it a year or so and there'll be a new E90 series M3 - hopefully they'll make something out of that, considering the road car version is having the awesome V8 from the previous M5...
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Pity there will be no (official) works opposition.
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give it a year or so and there'll be a new E90 series M3 - hopefully they'll make something out of that, considering the road car version is having the awesome V8 from the previous M5...
The V8 for the E90 M3 is brand new and derived from the V10 of the current M5 and M6.
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I agree Red Bullet - IF BMW were to ever homlogate the M3 GTR. Unfortunatly thats not going to happen, the M6 however will, and will therefore be eligable for the LMES and the ALMS as well as FIA GT and of course Le Mans. Its for the best really.
I know. It's just that the M3GTR is a legend, is damn fast and very goodlooking. At this moment the M6 has none of those characteristics.
As you said, they have to move on.
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Old 19 Feb 2005, 22:41 (Ref:1230405)   #8
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Will they be doing Spa 24 this year?
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Old 19 Feb 2005, 22:59 (Ref:1230412)   #9
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just thinking of what 2006 will be like in the GT1 ranks brings a smile to my face...
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Old 19 Feb 2005, 23:01 (Ref:1230413)   #10
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is it a brand new V8? i presume BMW meant that it'll have somewhat similar performance levels to the old M5, then...? i got told (by one or two people at bracknell) that the new M3 was going to have the old M5 V8 engine. I guess they were wrongly informed by their own company lol. Or BMW changed their minds.
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Will these BMWs be reliable? The cars should be bulletproof, going on the enviable reliability of the 24hr Group A cars in the '80s and onwards... maybe they just dont like V8s?
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Then why did they build them in the first place.
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Will they be doing Spa 24 this year?
Doesn't look like it at the moment.
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There's unfinished business at Spa so I'm putting my money on an appearance by the BMW squad. Evo magazine had an interview with the boss of M division. They want a level playing ground in GT1 .. and named the MC12.
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