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  • BMW Team PTG M3s Capture First Rolex Series GT Victory with 1-2 at Grand Prix of Miami
    Created: Saturday, February 28, 2004 Author: Jeff Seabrook
    Homestead, Fla. (February 28, 2004) -- BMW Team PTG was back in Victory Lane with a 1-2 BMW M3 finish at today?s Grand Prix of Miami. The win was the first for BMW Team PTG in only its second Rolex Sports Car Series race. BMW now moves to second in the GT Manufacturer Point Standings and BMW Team PTG moves to fourth in GT Team Owner Points. The No. 21 M3 of Boris Said and Bill Auberlen competed 105 laps around the 2.3-mile Homestead-Miami road course. They finished one lap ahead of the No. 22 M3 of teammates Justin  Marks and  Joey  Hand. The No. 22 was credited with the fastest lap  of the race (1:19.884). As the pole sitters and capturing the class win, Auberlen and Said also won the first Axiom Grand Touring Challenge Bonus of the season....
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  • Said Puts BMW Team PTG M3 on GT Pole for Grand Prix of Miami
    Created: Friday, February 27, 2004 Author: Jeff Seabrook
    BMW Team PTG was back in form today as Boris Said qualified the No. 21 BMW Team PTG M3 fastest in the GT field for Saturday?s 250-mile Grand Prix of Miami with a time of 1:19.325 around the 2.3-mile road course at Homestead-Miami Speedway. The No. 21 M3 of Said and Bill Auberlen was the fastest in Thursday?s practice session and was at the top of the 11-car GT  class time charts in today?s earlier practice sessions as well. Said captured the $1000 Axiom Grand Touring Challenge Pole Bonus and the first pole for BMW Team PTG in the Rolex Sports Car Series. Justin Marks qualified the No. 22 BMW Team PTG M3 fourth with a lap of 1:19.753. He will drive the No. 22 car with former Formula Atlantic standout Joey Hand of Concord, Ohio. Zippo  Live  Timing  and  Scoring  is  available  for  all  on-track  activities  on  the  official  Grand American  website,  www.grandamerican.com.  The  250-mile...
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  • Australian GP - Preview
    Created: Thursday, February 26, 2004 Author: Jeff Seabrook
    On Sunday 7th March, the WilliamsF1 BMW FW26 will make its race debut at the Albert Park circuit in Melbourne, host to the Australian Grand Prix, the inaugural race of the 2004 season. The Formula One fraternity is enveloped by a sense of excitement and anticipation that inevitably accompanies the start of a new Championship. The traditional intrigue that surrounds the relative potential of a grid of new cars will abate when the cars take to the track for the first time in under a week. Over the four month winter break, the BMW WilliamsF1 Team has completed an intensive test programme, covering over 20,000 kilometres in five European countries over 33 days. With the FW26 coming on-line earlier than in previous years, so it would be fully competitive from the outset, the team is relatively upbeat for the season ahead....
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  • TURNER MOTORSPORT ANNOUNCES 2004 TOURING CAR PROGRAM
    Created: Thursday, February 26, 2004 Author: Jeff Seabrook
    NEWBURYPORT, Mass. (Feb. 26, 2004) -- Turner Motorsport announced today that it will field a three-car team for the upcoming 2004 SCCA SPEED World Challenge Touring Car season led by defending series Champion Bill Auberlen, of Rolling Hills Estates, Calif. Justin Marks, of Chico, Calif., and rookie of the year contender Dino Crescentini, of Malibu, Calif., also join the team?s lineup.  The decision to return to Touring Car is a major expansion of the Turner Motorsport team, which is also racing BMW 330s in Grand Am Cup. Will Turner will be the team principal, using his six years of Touring car experience to call the shots from behind the pit wall. ...
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  • Imola Test - Summary
    Created: Thursday, February 26, 2004 Author: Jeff Seabrook
    The BMW WilliamsF1 Team concluded a three day test programme at Imola today, the team's final session before the Formula One season kicks off in Melbourne on 7th March. Team drivers Ralf Schumacher and Juan Pablo Montoya were on hand to perform testing duties, with Ralf in the cockpit on Tuesday and Juan Pablo taking over the FW26 on Wednesday and Thursday. Freezing conditions and heavy rain hampered much of the test, however, the team managed to work through the scheduled programme, completing final set-up work for the season opener....
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  • Schumacher and Berger test the BMW M3 GTR
    Created: Thursday, February 26, 2004 Author: Jeff Seabrook
    Munich/Monza (ITA), 26th February 2004. A brace of exclusive chauffeurs were to be seen at the wheel of the BMW M3 GTR this week: on Wednesday and Thursday respectively, Ralf Schumacher and Gerhard Berger put the BMW M3 GTR through its paces at Italy's Monza circuit. The star of the BMW WilliamsF1 Team and the former BMW Motorsport Director enjoyed an outing in the muscular 450 bhp GT sports car on the race track in Monza's Royal Park....
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  • BMW Team PTG Heads to Grand Prix of Miami with Renewed Determination
    Created: Tuesday, February 24, 2004 Author: Jeff Seabrook
    Winchester,  Va.  (February  24,  2004)  --  The  second  round  of  the  ten-race  2004  Rolex Sports Car Series at Homestead-Miami Speedway on February 28 provides a new start for BMW Team PTG as they race their two BMW M3s toward the GT class championship. The disappointment of retiring both cars at Daytona behind them, BMW Team PTG heads to the   2.3-mile,   11-turn   road   course   in   Homestead,   Fla.   ready   to   prove   themselves  as champions that have delivered 14 North American sports car racing championships in nine years of campaigning the BMW M3....
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  • BMW Team PTG Returns to Rolex 24 at Daytona Looking for Third GT-Class Win
    Created: Sunday, February 22, 2004 Author: Jeff Seabrook
    Winchester, VA - January 27, 2004 ... When the green flag waves for the start of the 42nd Rolex 24 at Daytona next Saturday BMW Team PTG will make its return to the Daytona International Speedway for its first 24-hour race since 1999. ...
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  • Anchor Racing to Campaign BMW M3 in Grand-Am Cup
    Created: Sunday, February 22, 2004 Author: Jeff Seabrook
    Chicago, IL (February, 22, 2004) ?Anchor Racing is pleased to announce a full car assault in a BMW E46 M3 in the Grand-Am Cup, GS class.  Team owner and driver, John Munson, will copilot the No. 92 Anchor Racing BMW M3 with James Sofronas. The official team sponsors are Anchor Mortgage, Anchor Group, and Anchor Development....
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