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• TURNER TAKES 2007 GRAND-AM KONI CHALLENGE ST CHAMPIONSHIP, AND BRINGS BMW MANUFACTURERS TITLE

  BMW Racing News - 2007 Grand Am Koni Challenge

  Created: Monday, October 08, 2007

  After two 6 hour races at Virginia International Raceway, TMS and BMW Emerge as Champions ALTON, VA - October 7, 2007 -- A third-place finish by the #95 Turner Motorsport / H&R Springs / Borla Exhaust BMW 330i teammates Adam Burrows and Trevor Hopwood gave the New England duo their first professional championships and the Turner Motorsport team its second-consecutive Grand-Am KONI Challenge ST Team Championship. Burrows and Hopwood ran in the lead pack for the entire grueling 6 hour race. The third-place finish gave Burrows and Hopwood an unmatched record of top-three podium finishes in half of the year's 12 races, including three second-place showings. Consistency and podiums were the key to success for the duo as they finished out of the top-10 only once in 2007 and had the most consistent record of any team in KONI ST competition. This weekend's finish was the fifth straight top ten and the 29th top ten finish for the #95 Turner BMW in the last 32 races stretching back to the ...
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• THE NEW BMW M3 SEDAN

  BMW AG News - Automotive News

  Created: Saturday, October 06, 2007

   M3 Sedan Comes to America in 2008 Woodcliff Lake, NJ - October 6, 2007... BMW raises the performance benchmark once again with the introduction of the 2008 M3 Sedan. Sharing the M3 Coupe’s high-revving 414-horsepower V8 and balanced chassis that is designed to be “faster than its engine”, the motorsports arm of the German auto maker, BMW M GmbH, is pleased to offer the most powerful, highest-performing M3 ever with four doors.   Originally offered in 1986 as a homologation special to allow BMW’s entry into the German Touring Car Championship, the M3’s popularity and steadily increasing sales for each iteration motivated the company to continue developing this unique combination of driving dynamics, comfort and luxury in a compact machine and offer a new version each time the underlying 3 Series was reborn. Americans were first introduced to the M3 sports sedan concept in 1988. The first M3 produced 192 hp from its 2.3-liter four-cylinder eng...
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