Just went to the Nürburgring 24 hours will start. In the field, you will find different Bimmers. At Le Mans you seek in vain, but there is next year to change that.
BMW won the 24 hours of Le Mans in 1999 with the V12 LMR, against hard competition of the factory teams of Toyota, Mercedes, Audi and Nissan. They had at that time already decided to put an end to knitting to the project, because the Bavarian in the year 2000 would return in F1 with team Williams.
In the years that followed, several there a lot of rumors head on that BMW is a return considered in the French classics. To a new commitment in the LMP class was never. Was the BMW a few times in the GT-classification, for example, with the E92 M3 Art Car.
In recent years, however, were once again BMW-loos in the French race. This year there are already more or less changed, as BMW is following in the footsteps of Audi, the new Safety Cars is going to deliver for the race. On the official start list are missing, however, are still cars with BMW-baaadge.
Nevertheless, the Safety Cars a harbinger of things to come, because next year is the BMW at the start in the GT class with this blepper. It is, as you may have already noticed, the M-variant of the new 8-series in racetrim. The car will be developed parallel with the new 8 series and M8.
It is intended that the new M8 GTE soon, the circuit looks for. Still in the first half of this year, the car will be tested and are going to the official debut album must follow in the 24 hours of Daytona in January 2018.