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Munich. BMW M Motorsport will line up with three BMW M4 GT3 EVO cars in the top SP9 category at the 24 Hours of Nürburgring (GER) on 16th/17th May. Defending champions Kelvin van der Linde (RSA), Raffaele Marciello (SUI) and Augusto Farfus (BRA) return to the endurance classic at the Nordschleife. Together with Jordan Pepper (RSA), they will compete in the #1 BMW M4 GT3 EVO for ROWE Racing. In addition to this quartet, eight more works drivers with ROWE Racing and Schubert Motorsport will chase BMW M Motorsport’s 22nd overall victory in the “Green Hell,” where BMW remains the record winner. The second ROWE Racing car, once again running on Michelin tyres like its sister entry, will be driven by Dan Harper (GBR), Max Hesse (GER)...

Munich. BMW M Motorsport will be chasing titles in the GT World Challenge Europe powered by AWS in 2026 with a top-class line-up. The reigning champions, Kelvin van der Linde (RSA) and Charles Weerts (BEL), will once again compete for Team WRT. The duo, who triumphed in both the overall championship and the Sprint Cup last season, will drive the #32 BMW M4 GT3 EVO as they did in 2025. ROWE Racing will fight for titles in the Endurance Cup with six BMW M works drivers, and Valentino Rossi (ITA) will contest all ten rounds of the season for Team WRT . The Italian, who triumphed as a guest starter at his home races at Misano (ITA) for the past three years, will share the #46 BMW M4 GT3 EVO in both the Sprint and Endurance Cup with Max...

Bathurst. One year after their sensational 1-2 finish, Team WRT was once again close to winning at the Bathurst 12 Hour (AUS). In the end, Augusto Farfus (BRA), Raffaele Marciello (SUI), and Valentino Rossi (ITA) finished third in the #46 BMW M4 GT3 EVO after a dramatic race with many incidents. The #32 sister car, which competed in Bathurst with a special livery, was leading the race at the final restart but dropped far back after a collision. Team KRC enjoyed a fantastic Bathurst debut on which Max Hesse (GER), Maxime Oosten (NED), and Ruan Cunfan (CHN) finished fifth overall and second in the Bronze class in the #89 BMW M4 GT3 EVO . The 12-hour race was marked by numerous accidents, which repeatedly led to yellow flag periods and...

Daytona. What a start to the season in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA Series)! First podium for the BMW M Hybrid V8 at the 24 Hours of Daytona (USA) – on the debut of BMW M Team WRT in the GTP class. And the acclaimed victory for the #1 BMW M4 GT3 EVO of Paul Miller Racing in the GTD-PRO class – simply fantastic! Connor De Phillippi, Neil Verhagen (both USA), Max Hesse (GER) and Dan Harper (GBR) celebrated the first Daytona class win for BMW M Motorsport since the GTLM triumph for BMW M Team RLL in 2020. After a difficult qualifying session, both BMW M Hybrid V8s gradually fought their way forward from eighth and ninth on the grid and were in the top five when the race was neutralised during the night due to heavy...

Daytona. The countdown to the first highlight of the motorsport season began this weekend with the ‘Roar Before the 24’: the 24 Hours of Daytona (USA). In six test sessions, BMW M Team WRT completed around 450 laps of the Daytona International Speedway with the two BMW M Hybrid V8s, collecting valuable data in the process. The Belgian crew will celebrate their race debut in the GTP class next weekend at the season opener of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA Series). The cars made their first IMSA appearance in the iconic BMW M Motorsport Inception design at the Roar. After intensive months of preparation for the BMW M Hybrid V8 in the IMSA Series, BMW M Team WRT had three equally busy days of testing in Florida. For the...

Munich. Team WRT and BMW M Motorsport will return to the Mount Panorama Circuit together in 2026. The Bathurst 12 Hour (AUS), the season opener of the Intercontinental GT Challenge (IGTC), will be all about defending the title after last year's 1-2 finish. Six BMW M works drivers will line up in the Belgian team's two BMW M4 GT3 EVOs, including last year's winners Augusto Farfus (BRA) and Kelvin van der Linde (RSA) as well as newcomer Jordan Pepper (RSA). Valentino Rossi (ITA) will also be making another appearance at the endurance classic in Australia. The Chinese team KRC is fielding another BMW M4 GT3 EVO. BMW M works driver Max Hesse (GER) celebrates his Bathurst debut in the cockpit. In 2025, the Bathurst 12 Hour was the perfect...

Munich. BMW M Motorsport looks back on an intense but also highly successful 2025 season. While the BMW M Hybrid V8 experienced highs and lows, the BMW M4 GT3 and BMW M4 GT4 with their EVO versions provided plenty of reasons to celebrate. In our season review, we reflect on the most important victories and titles and share other interesting figures from the 2025 racing year. A list of title wins follows at the end of the press release. LMDh: Strong season start, but also some disappointments. The year of the BMW M Hybrid V8 began with an impressive streak of four consecutive pole positions by Dries Vanthoor (BEL) in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. At the end of the third season of the Hypercar in North America, the results...

Munich. BMW M Motorsport relies on consistency for the line-ups of its two Hypercar programmes in the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA Series) in 2026. The same eight BMW M works drivers will take the wheel of the four BMW M Hybrid V8s as in 2025. However, there will be a change in the regular driver pairings in the IMSA Series. The eight drivers for BMW M Motorsport’s works programmes in the FIA WEC and IMSA Series in 2026 are once again: Philipp Eng (AUT), Robin Frijns (NED), Kevin Magnussen (DEN), Raffaele Marciello (SUI), René Rast (GER), Sheldon van der Linde (RSA), Dries Vanthoor (BEL), and Marco Wittmann (GER). As in the previous year, Vanthoor and van der Linde...

Chengdu/Munich. On 1 November, the PUMA x BMW M Motorsport Art Car Capsule Collection by Cao Fei was officially unveiled at the M Festival at Chengdu Tianfu International Raceway (China). The Chinese multimedia artist designed BMW Art Car #18, which debuted in 2017, on the basis of a BMW M6 GT3. By presenting the first digital Art Car, Cao Fei took the series into the 21st century. Physical and virtual elements combine to form a parallel, transmedia world that can only be fully experienced through augmented reality (AR) and film. In this way, Cao Fei mirrors the rapid pace of technological change in China, building a bridge between tradition and the future. Accordingly, the new BMW Lifestyle collection presents itself as a capsule of...

Macau. BMW M Motorsport celebrated another success at the FIA GT World Cup in the narrow street canyons of Macau (CHN): Raffaele Marciello (SUI) claimed second place on the podium in the #53 BMW M4 GT3 EVO of ROWE Racing. Sheldon van der Linde (RSA) delivered a strong comeback drive in the Team WRT #31 BMW M4 GT3 EVO, sporting its special Shell livery. His charge brought him up to sixth place in Sunday’s main race. The FIA GT World Cup, held as part of the legendary Macau Grand Prix on the Guia Circuit, traditionally marks the spectacular finale of the GT3 racing season. After Friday’s qualifying session came the 12-lap qualification race on Saturday, followed by the 16-lap main race on Sunday. Marciello secured fifth place in...

Since its founding in 1972, BMW Motorsport has supplied a bevy of race-ready cars to customers worldwide, but few of those cars were suitable for racing in North America. On this continent, sanctioning bodies tend to impose their own, often idiosyncratic rules, which excluded nearly all of BMW Motorsport’s customer-racing touring and GT cars. While BMW of North America’s factory team was adapting Euro-spec racing cars to IMSA specification, private customers who wanted to race BMWs had to convert street cars into race cars. BMW Motorsport didn’t want to sell cars like the endurance-racing Z4 M Coupe or E92 M3 GT4 in markets without an official structure for parts and technical support. Since BMW NA had no such structure, US racers...

Munich. This coming weekend, BMW M Team WRT will make its debut with the BMW M Hybrid V8 in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA series) during the official sanctioned test at Daytona (USA). The hypercar from BMW M Motorsport will hit the track at the International Speedway sporting its new design and, for the first time, its new headlights. The track lights combine cutting-edge lighting technology with iconic design. Over the two test days, six BMW M works drivers will take the wheel of the two BMW M Hybrid V8s. The aerodynamic updates to the BMW M Hybrid V8 for the 2026 season were already showcased during previous test drives, including the smaller kidney grille and the modified front splitter designed to optimise...

Sakhir. The hopes for a strong conclusion to the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) did not fully materialise for BMW M Motorsport. The season finale, the ‘8 Hours of Bahrain’ (BRN), proved challenging in both the Hypercar and LMGT3 categories. Over the course of eight hours, it was difficult to fight for the top positions. However, Sheldon van der Linde (RSA), René Rast (GER) and Robin Frijns (NED) managed an impressive recovery drive in the #20 Shell BMW M Hybrid V8 of BMW M Team WRT, moving up from 15th on the grid to finish eighth. The #15 BMW M Hybrid V8, driven by Kevin Magnussen (DEN), Raffaele Marciello (SUI) and Dries Vanthoor (BEL), retired in the final hour due to a defect. In the LMGT3 class, which had recently...

Björn Lellmann, Head of Customer Racing at BMW M Motorsport: “In recent weeks, GT racing series around the world have been deciding their titles. Now it’s time to reap the rewards for the hard work put in throughout the season. Our BMW M Motorsport teams and drivers in North America have done this in an incredibly impressive fashion. A huge congratulations and sincere compliments to Random Vandals Racing, Turner Motorsport, and BimmerWorld Racing, who achieved a clean sweep in the SRO series with the BMW M4 GT3 EVO and BMW M4 GT4 EVO, winning all available titles. The record in the GT World Challenge America, GT America, and GT4 America is truly out of this world! I’m very sorry for BMW Italia Ceccato Racing that, despite an...

Indianapolis. Kelvin van der Linde (RSA) was crowned Drivers’ Champion of the Intercontinental GT Challenge at the season finale. The South African took victory in a chaotic Indianapolis 8 Hour (USA) alongside Charles Weerts (BEL) and Valentino Rossi (ITA) in the #46 BMW M4 GT3 EVO fielded by Team WRT. Their teammates Raffaele Marciello (ITA), Augusto Farfus (BRA) and Al Faisal Al Zubair (OMA) completed the double podium by finishing third in the #777 BMW M4 GT3 EVO. With that, BMW clinched its first-ever Manufacturers’ Championship title in the IGTC. The “Battle on the Bricks” was initially halted for a long time due to a thunderstorm with heavy rain and eventually finished behind the safety car. From the start of the weekend, the BMW...

Indianapolis. Kelvin van der Linde (RSA) was crowned Drivers’ Champion of the Intercontinental GT Challenge at the season finale. The South African took victory in a chaotic Indianapolis 8 Hour (USA) alongside Charles Weerts (BEL) and Valentino Rossi (ITA) in the #46 BMW M4 GT3 EVO fielded by Team WRT. Their teammates Raffaele Marciello (ITA), Augusto Farfus (BRA) and Al Faisal Al Zubair (OMA) completed the double podium by finishing third in the #777 BMW M4 GT3 EVO. With that, BMW clinched its first-ever Manufacturers’ Championship title in the IGTC. The “Battle on the Bricks” was initially halted for a long time due to a thunderstorm with heavy rain and eventually finished behind the safety car. From the start of the weekend, the BMW...

Björn Lellmann, Head of Customer Racing at BMW M Motorsport: "Congratulations to FK Performance Motorsport, Nick Wüstenhagen, and Ranko Mijatovic on winning the overall standings in the NLS! This marks the first time a team with the BMW M4 GT4 has finished a Nürburgring season on top. I am very proud of this achievement, as it not only highlights the outstanding performance of the team and drivers but also underlines the strong and highly competitive nature of the GT4 classes in the NLS. Our customer racing car regularly plays a leading role in the 'Green Hell' and delivers spectacular racing. I also want to congratulate all other winners and champions who compete with our cars in the NLS. Beyond that, our ambassadors around the world...

Hockenheim. The dream of a fourth DTM drivers' title for René Rast (GER) has been shattered. In the final race of the season at the Hockenheimring (GER), the 38-year-old had excellent chances in the showdown for the championship after a strong start, running in second place. However, a collision in the first lap ended all his hopes. On Friday, ahead of the race weekend, Rast had announced his provisional retirement from DTM. Marco Wittmann (GER) shone in the Sunday race, securing a podium finish in second place during a dramatic season finale. After finishing seventh on Saturday, Rast started Sunday’s race from fifth position but quickly moved up to second place in the first few corners thanks to a brilliant start. However, at the...

Munich. As part of a racing weekend organized by Dener Motorsports at the former Formula 1 circuit “Circuito Estoril” near Lisbon/Portugal, a tribute event for the three-time Formula 1 world champion took place on the last weekend in August. The participation of BMW Group Classic occurred in close cooperation with Dener Pires, a close friend of Nelson Piquet. BMW Group Classic brought two of Nelson Piquet's legendary racing cars to the event. A Brabham BMW BT 52 Turbo, in which he became the first turbo world champion in Formula 1 in 1983, and a BMW M1 Procar, in which he became BMW Procar champion in 1980. Nelson Piquet grabbed the steering wheel on two days, first completing a shake-down in both cars and then doing a few laps of...

Munich. BMW M Motorsport is further consolidating its efforts in the Hypercar programme and expanding its collaboration with BMW M Team WRT starting next season. The Belgian team, led by Team Principal Vincent Vosse, will field the BMW M Hybrid V8 in both the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC) and the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA series) from 2026 onwards. The BMW M Team WRT GTP programme will cover the entire IMSA season, including both endurance and sprint races. The first track outing is scheduled for the IMSA Sanctioned Test at Daytona (USA) in November. To ensure optimal operations in North America, BMW M Team WRT is currently establishing a base in Charlotte (USA) where the team responsible for IMSA race...

Fuji. Second place in Austin (USA), third place in Fuji (JPN): the BMW M4 GT3 EVO continues its successful streak in the final stages of the FIA World Endurance Championship (FIA WEC). In the penultimate race at the Fuji International Speedway, Augusto Farfus (BRA), Timur Boguslavskiy, and Yasser Shahin (AUS) drove the #31 The Bend Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 EVO to a third-place finish. The trio achieved an impressive comeback from 14th on the grid. The #46 car, which had finished second in Austin, secured another strong fourth-place result this time. In the Hypercar class, the #20 Shell BMW M Hybrid V8 crossed the finish line in ninth place, while the #15 car retired after a crash. The Japanese fans witnessed a spectacular six-hour race...