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  • Speed GT Championship Lead Weighs Heavily on BMW Team PTG
    Created: Wednesday, August 27, 2003
    WINCHESTER, Va. (Aug. 28, 2003) - BMW Team PTG carries the lead in all categories of the 2003 SCCA Pro Racing Speed GT Championship after its success in seven races, but it will also have to carry additional weight in Round 8 on Sept. 7 at Laguna Seca Raceway in Monterey, Calif.Each of the four BMW M3s will be weighed down by an extra 150 pounds of lead at this event, based on an Aug. 7 competition adjustment made by SCCA Pro Racing, which is beyond what is mandated by the Speed GT weight-equalization rules.BMW Team PTG has fought hard for its accomplishments this season in its first foray into the World Challenge Series after seven successful years in endurance sports-car competition. As a result, BMW leads the Manufacturer's Championship by eight points over Audi. In addition, Bill Auberlen sits atop the Driver's Championship standings with his fellow veteran world-class teammates Hans Stuck fifth, Boris Said sixth and 2003 PTG newcomer Justin Marks eighth.BMW Team PTG and Auberlen h...
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  • WINNING DRIVERS FROM SPEED WORLD CHALLENGE TO VISIT PATIENTS AT SHRINERS HOSPITAL, CHICAGO
    Created: Monday, August 18, 2003
    CHICAGO - On Tuesday, August 19 at 1:30 pm, Ken Dobson and Will Turner, top-ten rated drivers in the Speed Touring Car Division of the Speed World Challenge, will bring their race-prepared BMW?s to Shriners Hospitals for Children, Chicago. Dobson?s team, Chili Pepper Racing (www.chilipepperracing.org), was founded to raise funds and awareness for medical charities, notably C. Thompson Children?s Hospital in Chattanooga, TN (www.Erlanger.org) and Remote Area Medical (www.ramusa.org) of Knoxville, TN. Chili Pepper?s founder, Jim Osborn, MD, trained as an orthopedic and spine surgeon at Shriners, has long wanted his team to visit the patients there. ...
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  • SCCA PRO RACING APPLIES COMPETITION ADJUSTMENTS TO SPEED GT BMW AND PORSCHE CARS
    Created: Wednesday, August 06, 2003
    TOPEKA, Kan. (Aug. 7, 2003) ? SCCA Pro Racing released Wednesday in an SCCA Speed World Challenge Technical Bulletin that the Speed GT BMW M3s and Porsche 911 GT3 Cups would each be heavier for Round Eight at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca, Sept. 5-7. Following a dominating performance at Infineon Raceway, where BMWs finished first through fourth, and a sweep of the front row at Road America last weekend, SCCA Pro Racing adjusted the base weight of the car from 2550 lbs. to 2700 lbs. Porsche led each Road America practice session and won the race at the hands of Mike Fitzgerald, who also won at Road Atlanta earlier this season. The base weight of the 911 GT3 Cup was adjusted from 2700 lbs. to 2800 lbs., adding back the 100 lbs. taken off between Lime Rock Park and Road Atlanta in June. ?Now that we?re well into the season, we?re seeing the full potential of these cars, and, as has always been the case with the Speed World Challenge, it?s our responsibility to try and maintain a level playin...
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  • BMW TEAM PTG RETAINS SPEED GT CHAMPIONSHIP LEAD WITH SAID'S FOURTH-PLACE FINISH AT ROAD AMERICA
    Created: Saturday, August 02, 2003
    WINCHESTER, Va. (Aug. 5, 2003) - For the first time since the Round-3 Speed GT race in May, a BMW Team PTG driver failed to reach the Speed GT podium. However, following Boris Said's fourth-place finish in Round 7 of the SCCA Pro Racing Speed GT Championship at Road America in Elkhart Lake, Wis., on Sunday, BMW retained its lead in the Manufacturer's Championship and Bill Auberlen stayed atop the Driver's Championship.The 18-lap contest around the 4.0-mile circuit was won by Mike Fitzgerald's Porsche, which ended under a full-course caution.A three-M3 train of Auberlen, Hans Stuck and Said held the second, third and fourth positions for most of the race until a wreck on lap 13 caused a caution period that ultimately ended up being the beginning of the end of the race for Team PTG.Running as high as second, pole-sitter Auberlen, in the No. 7 BMW Team PTG M3, was forced to serve a stop-and-go penalty on the last lap of the race when he moved out of line on the lap-16 restart. He fought b...
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  • All-BMW M3 Front Row at Road America; Bill Auberlen and Hans Stuck to Lead the Field on Sunday
    Created: Friday, August 01, 2003
    Picking right up where he left off in Round 6, BMW Team PTG driver Bill Auberlen recorded his third-consecutive and fourth pole position of the season in today's damp-but-drying 30-minute qualifying session for Round 7 of the SCCA Pro Racing Speed GT Championship at Road America in ElkhartLake, Wis.Auberlen - a three-time winner this season - recorded a 2:18.433 lap around the 4.0-mile circuit in his No. 7 BMW Team PTG M3. He collects two important bonus points in the Driver's Championship standings - one forthe pole and one more for a top-five starting position to consolidate his lead over Randy Pobst.Hans Stuck will start next to Auberlen in his No. 8 BMW Team PTG M3 after a 2:18.767 lap for his best starting position of the year.Boris Said will start just behind Stuck in fourth (2:19.165) and Justin Marks, struggling with a balky gear box in the spare Team PTG M3, will start 11th (2:21.362).At the end of this morning's 45-minute practice session BMW Team PTG drivers stood fifth (Sai...
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  • Road America Friday Practice
    Created: Thursday, July 31, 2003
    The one-hour session today - one of the Speed GT season's longest practice sessions - allowed BMW Team PTG to get down to the business of tuning its BMW M3s for Round 7 of the SCCA Pro Racing Speed GT Championship at Road America.After the team got its first laps on the 4.0-mile, 14-turn circuit in Elkhart Lake, Wis., yesterday, today's session saw Bill Auberlen fifth fastest (2:20.813) in the 26-car field. Boris Said was seventh (2:20.962), Hans Stuck 12th (2:21.737) and Justin Marks 14th (2:22.876). Marks is driving Team PTG's spare M3 for the remainder of the weekend, after his primary car was damaged yesterday.A second 45-minute practice session is scheduled for 9:00 a.m. tomorrow with qualifying at 1:00 p.m. The 50-minute, standing-start Speed GT race is scheduled to start at 11:20 a.m. Sunday.BILL AUBERLEN, NO. 7 BMW TEAM PTG M3 (fifth):"The M3 is very good today and is repeating what we did yesterday. It is always good to see that as it means we are close and do not expect anyth...
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