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• BMW lines up again in 2009 WTCC – Return to the ALMS

  BMW Racing News - 2009 American LeMans Series

  Created: Friday, November 28, 2008

  Munich, 29th November 2008. In 2009 BMW Motorsport will put its touring and sports car programmes into action on several popular stages, and will use racing versions of the BMW 3 series to fight for victories and titles: BMW once again take part in the FIA World Touring Car Championship, where the marque will be aiming to recapture the World Championship titles it missed out on with the BMW 320si WTCC in 2008. The newly developed BMW M3 ALMS will line up in the American Le Mans Series, where it is charged with writing another chapter in the success story of BMW in the US. “Touring cars have traditionally been very important to BMW,” says BMW Motorsport Director Mario Theissen. “The same applied to GT sport, to which we are returning in 2009 with the new BMW M3. Our commitment to the World Touring Car Championship and the ALMS will allow us to demonstrate the sporting properties of our cars to a wider public.”   Between 2005 and 2007, BMW won all the Drive...
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• Driver and teams gearing up for the Formula BMW World Final 2008

  BMW Racing News - 2008 Formula BMW World Final

  Created: Monday, November 17, 2008

  Munich, 18th November 2008. Despite the current Formula BMW season nearing its close, the action is due to follow thick and fast: This weekend sees Formula BMW Pacific contest its final race in Macau (MO), making it the last of Formula BMW’s three international driver development series to bring its year to an end. Thereafter the focus of the young drivers will fall on the highlight of the season. The fourth Formula BMW World Final, to be held at the “Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez” in Mexico City (MX) from 5th to 7th December 2008, offers the winner a unique prize – he will get the chance of a test drive in a BMW Sauber F1 Team racing car.   Eight teams have entered a total of 20 drivers – representing the finest talents from Formula BMW Europe, Formula BMW Americas and Formula BMW Pacific – to race for the Formula BMW crown. Included in the field are local hero Esteban Gutiérrez (MX), and Alexander Rossi (US). Both are abl...
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• BILL AUBERLEN AND JOEY HAND TO DRIVE FOR BMW RAHAL LETTERMAN RACING TEAM

  BMW Racing News - 2009 American LeMans Series

  Created: Monday, November 17, 2008

  BMW OF NORTH AMERICA NAMES BILL AUBERLEN AND JOEY HAND TO DRIVE FOR BMW RAHAL LETTERMAN RACING TEAM IN THE AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES BMW of North America, LLC has named Bill Auberlen and Joey Hand as the first two drivers of the new M3s for BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team in the 2009 American Le Mans Series. In choosing Auberlen and Hand, BMW of North America has picked two of the most successful BMW drivers in the world and two of the most familiar names to M3 racing fans here in North America. Auberlen, 40, of Redondo Beach, CA first drove for BMW of North America in 1996 when he joined the previous M3 racing program, then in its second year of competition. Auberlen would go on to become the team's most successful driver, winning driver titles in both 1997 and 2004. When he takes the green flag at Sebring International Raceway for the 57th annual 12 Hours of Sebring on March 21, Auberlen will have the distinction of having raced every generation of BMW M3 campaigned by BMW of North...
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