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BMW Motorsport heads into the sim racing season with a varied programme and is prominently represented on a host of virtual racing platforms. In the BMW SIM 120 Cup, teams and drivers from around the world compete at the wheel of the BMW M8 GTE on the iRacing motorsport simulation. The BMW SIM M2 CS Racing Cup will be hosted on the rFactor2 platform. Participants will battle for prize money of almost 75,000 Euros across all competitions.
The sixth BMW driver for the 2020 DTM season has been confirmed as Jonathan Aberdein (RSA), who caught the eye in 2019 with some impressive performances for customer team WRT, will drive a BMW M4 DTM in the future. As such, the six BMW works driver squad for the coming DTM season is now complete.
Carlos Sainz (ESP) and his co-driver Lucas Cruz (ESP) have won the Rally Dakar for the third time, having previously triumphed in 2010 and 2018. In doing so, they presented MINI with its fifth overall victory at the iconic endurance rally. For MINI and MINI Motorsport partner X-raid, this was the first success since their winning run together, which lasted from 2012 to 2015.
The legendary BMW Junior Team celebrates its comeback after more than 40 years. 2020 will see a new generation of promising talents contest races under the name BMW Junior Team. Dan Harper (GBR), Max Hesse (GER) and Neil Verhagen (USA) will complete a holistic, first-class, intensive training programme designed to cover two seasons that will set new standards in the promotion of young talented drivers.
When the Rally Dakar visits the Arabian Peninsula for the first time, from 5th to 17th January 2020, it will feature two Dakar legends in the MINI JCW Buggy and a total of nine MINI race cars.
The success story continues: With the BMW M2 CS Racing, BMW M Motorsport continues its tradition of close-to-production customer racing vehicles. The BMW M2 CS Racing is convincing with impressive driving performance and offers motorsport beginners the performance of a pedigree racing car at an attractive price. The BMW M2 CS, also being presented to the global community today, is the perfect basis for the new entry-level model.
The debut season for the BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team and the new BMW S 1000 RR in the FIM Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK) has come to an end. On Saturday, the two final races of the year took place at the ‘Losail International Circuit’, near Doha (QAT). The finale did not go quite according to plan. Tom Sykes (GBR) recorded two twelfth-place finishes, while his team-mate Markus Reiterberger (GER) reached 15th and 14th positions.
For the second time this season, BMW works drivers will swap their BMW race car cockpits, in which they compete all over the world, for a race simulator. On 31st August, Bruno Spengler (CAN) and Nick Catsburg (NED) will take on some of the world’s top sim racers in the world at the SimRacing EXPO at the Nürburgring (GER) as “BMW Team Green Hell”.
The rider line-up for the BMW Motorrad WorldSBK Team in the 2020 season of the FIM Superbike World Championship (WorldSBK) is taking shape. New to the team is experienced WorldSBK rider Eugene Laverty (GBR), who will debut on the BMW S 1000 RR in 2020.
BMW Motorrad Motorsport expands its international works engagement with the new BMW S 1000 RR to include the FIM Endurance World Championship (FIM EWC). As of the upcoming 2019/20 season, which gets underway on 21st/22nd September with the Bol d’Or in Le Castellet (FRA), the BMW Motorrad World Endurance Team will contest the FIM EWC with the new RR.
Winner of the BMW Group Classic Social Media Contest showcased the mid-engined sports car artistically designed 40 years ago at an exclusive photo shoot.
This weekend features another highlight of the endurance season – the 24 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps (BEL). For BMW Team Schnitzer and Walkenhorst Motorsport, this also forms the third race of the season in the International GT Challenge. Walkenhorst Motorsport travels to the Ardennes as defending champion following last year’s victory in Belgium.
The tenth DTM race of the year saw an impressive recovery performance at Assen (NED) from Marco Wittmann (GER) in the Schaeffler BMW M4 DTM, as he moved up from 18th on the grid to finish second. After his win in the wet on Saturday, the BMW Team RMG driver also proved to be the best-placed BMW driver in dry conditions on Sunday.
As part of the DTM weekend at the Norisring (GER), the legendary BMW M1 Procar series is making a comeback. Numerous iconic drivers such as Hans-Joachim Stuck (GER), Marc Surer (SUI), Harald Grohs (GER) and Jan Lammers (NED) will be involved.
The fourth race weekend of the 2019 DTM season is BMW’s home event at the legendary Norisring in Nuremberg (GER), only about 160 kilometres away from BMW’s home in Munich (GER). Race numbers seven and eight of the season will be held on Saturday and Sunday (6th/7th July) on the only street circuit on the calendar.
Next year is set to be a good year for private BMW drivers and teams who battle for race wins and titles around the world. BMW is offering customers with a passion for grassroots motorsport and club racing a global service and technical support. Furthermore, the model range is being successively renewed.
Andrea Pavan (-15, 273 shots) is the winner of the 31st BMW International Open. The Italian showed the strongest nerves on an extremely hard-fought final day at GC München Eichenried and eventually clinched the title at Germany’s most iconic golf tournament in the eighth play-off in the tournament’s history.
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The new MINI John Cooper Works GP.