The grid positions for the 2019 Nürburgring 24 Hours (GER) have been decided. In total, five BMW M6 GT3 made it into Top Qualifying, in which Christian Krognes (NOR) set the fastest time by any BMW driver, stopping the clock at 8:15.165 minutes in the Walkenhorst Motorsport #101 car. Pole...
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2019-2020 FIA World Endurance Championship calendar
2019-2020 FIA World Endurance Championship calendar July 23-24, 2019: Prologue – Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya (Spain) September 1, 2019: 4 Hours of Silverstone (Great Britain) October 6, 2019: 6 Hours of Fuji (Japan) November 10, 2019: 4 Hours of Shanghai (China) December 14, 2019: 8 Hours of Bahrain (Bahrain) February 1,...
Read more André Negrão will remain with the team that will race under the name of Signatech Alpine Elf
Since his debut in 2015, Thomas Laurent has proven to be an Endurance natural. After winning the 24 Hours of Le Mans support race Road to Le Mans in 2016, he battled for the victory in the French classic a year later. While his LMP2 barely lost out to a Porsche LMP1,...
Read more Number 82 BMW M8 GTE to start the Le Mans 24-hour race from fifth place
Number 82 BMW M8 GTE to start the Le Mans 24-hour race from fifth place On Wednesday and Thursday, BMW Team MTEK continued preparations for the 24-hour race in Le Mans (FRA). After three qualifying sessions at the grand finale of the FIA World Endurance Championship ‘Super Season’, the no....
Read more Impressive second place for Philipp Eng in Sunday’s race at Misano
This was Eng’s third podium result of the year, and the 290thin the history of the touring car series for BMW. In total, four BMW drivers finished in the top ten. Joel Eriksson (SWE) was sixth in the CATL BMW M4 DTM, while Bruno Spengler (CAN) ended the race eighth...
Read more The new BMW S 1000 RR continues its world tour: BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team visits Jerez de la Frontera
The new BMW S 1000 RR’s world tour in the FIM Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK) enters the next phase. This weekend (7th to 9thJune), the BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team and its riders Tom Sykes (GBR) and Markus Reiterberger (GER) will contest the sixth round of the 2019 WorldSBK season, at Jerez...
Read more 2019 Formula 1 Monaco Grand Prix
Renault F1 Team secured ninth place and two points in a tense Monaco Grand Prix today. Daniel Ricciardo had started from sixth on the grid, however an early pit stop strategy did not play out and the Australian finished in tenth, which was converted to ninth following the application of...
Read more The ABB FIA Formula E Championship is in Berlin (GER) this weekend for round ten of the season
The ABB FIA Formula E Championship is in Berlin (GER) this weekend for round ten of the season Jens Marquardt (BMW Group Motorsport Director): “The first home race for BMW i Andretti Motorsport this weekend is something very special for us. As ‘Official Vehicle Partner’, BMW i has been closely...
Read more BMW Motorsport and the DTM go racing at Zolder
BMW Motorsport returns to a historic venue with the DTM; Zolder, in Belgium, hosts round two of the 2019 DTM season from 17th to 19th May. It was here that the first ever DTM race was held in 1984. Back then, victory went to Harald Grohs (GER) in a BMW 635 CSi....
Read more 2019 Formula 1 SOCAR Azerbaijan Grand Prix, Sunday
Renault F1 Team missed out on scoring points at the 2019 Formula 1 SOCAR Azerbaijan Grand Prix with Nico Hülkenberg fourteenth and Daniel Ricciardo retiring at the Baku City Circuit on Sunday. Daniel, from tenth on the grid, made a bright opening to the race before an incident on lap...
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