Goodwood Festival of Speed 2003

1. BMW at the Festival of Speed. 2. Goodwood Festival of Speed: classic motorsport, British-style. 3. Biography Earl of March. 4. History of the competing vehicles. Pictures of the Goodwood Festival of Speed 2003 can be found on PressClub from 14 July 2003

BMW at the Festival of Speed.

... Goodwood Festival of Speed: The return of the 1,300 bhp racer.
... Nelson Piquet and BMW celebrate 20 Years of the Formula One World
Championship
... Brabham BT52B BMW in action
... Lightwight sports cars: BMW 3.0 CSL and BMW M3 CSL
... 80 years motorcycles, 80 years of racing successes.

Munich/Goodwood. 10 years after the inaugural Festival of Speed at Goodwood in
the south of England, BMW Group Mobile Tradition will be presenting a very
special gem from its collection of historic models: thundering up the hill
towards Goodwood House with 1,300 brake horsepower will be the Brabham BT52B
BMW race car. To steer this powerpack, the BMW Group managed to enlist Nelson
Piquet, the driver who became Formula One's first turbo World Champion in the
BMW-powered Brabham BT52B BMW. It marks the first appearance in Goodwood of
this successful coupling of the year 1983. Also present will be Paul Rosche,
Technical Director of BMW Motorsport at the time and responsible for developing
the powerful heart of the Brabham BT52B BMW, as well as many other members of
the World Championship team.

20 Years of the Formula One World Championship:
BMW power secures success.

1983 witnessed the achievement, within 630 days, of a feat nobody thought
possible: thanks to the consistent pursuit of peak performance and an extremely
powerful BMW engine, Nelson Piquet won the final Formula One race at Kyalami in
South Africa to take the World Championship title in motor racing's top
echelon. This first World Championship win by a driver in a turbo F1 made
history. Today, the BMW WilliamsF1 racing cars with BMW power have similarly
proved highly successful, with the Munich-manufactured engine ranking as the
strongest in the field. Current Formula One racing driver Juan Pablo Montoya
will be taking the WilliamsF1 BMW FW24 out onto the track at the Goodwood
Festival of Speed. 20 years of BMW Formula One involvement will thus be
represented by top-flight racing drivers.

Lightweight sports cars: BMW 3.0 CSL and BMW M3 CSL.

BMW will also be displaying highlights past and present in the sports car
arena. A model with aerodynamic wings and spoilers that earned it the pithet
'Batmobile' - the BMW 3.0 CSL in the trim of the North American IMSA race
series - along with a contemporary BMW M3 CSL will climb nimbly up the hill at
Goodwood. The abbreviation CSL, after all, stands for Coupé, Sport and
Lightweight, and thus for an enhanced power/weight ratio. Even in its standard
version the 'Batmobile' featured doors and a bonnet made of aluminium, with
further modifications shaving around 200 kg off its weight. The latest M3 CSL,
meanwhile, employs materials such as carbon fibre-reinforced plastic (CFK) and
sheet moulding compound (SMC) to achieve a power/weight ratio of 3.85 kg/bhp,
assuring the sheer driving pleasure traditionally associated with BMW. The
light weight classic BMW 3.0 CSL also celebrates the 30th anniversary of its
first victory at Goodwood. On 8 July 1973, Stuck/Amon won the 6h-race at the
Nürburgring.

Straight-six, V8, V12: power from all cylinders.

Other cherished models from BMW's racing past will also be out on the track.
BMW Motorsport Director Dr Mario Theissen, for one, will be at the wheel
of the car that won the 1940 Mille Miglia, a BMW 328 Mille Miglia Coupé with
bodywork by Touring. Jörg Müller, who drives for BMW in the FIA European
Touring Car Championship, will be steering the BMW V12 LMR that claimed victory
in the 1999 Le Mans 24 Hour Race. BMW's involvement in touring
car racing will also be represented by the BMW M3 GTR, with Dr Burckhard
Göschel, BMW AG board member responsible for Development and Purchasing, in
control of its V8 engine with an output of some 450 bhp. To mark the 25th
anniversary of the production launch of the BMW M1, Marc Surer will be behind
the wheel of a BMW M1 Procar. The Swiss driver, who has contested many race
series with great success - winning, among others, the Formula 2 European
Championship in 1979 - played a key role in the development of the BMW M1 that
marked the start of BMW's successful M model series.

80 years of motorcycles, 80 years of sporting successes.

When the first BMW motorcycle was developed 80 years ago, it was clear to the
engineers led by designer Max Friz where their new product, with its
revolutionary combination of a transverse Boxer engine and cardan drive, had to
prove itself in the first instance: in the motorsport arena. In 1923, the R 32
was already competing in the Solitude race and went on to win the event a year
later. For the Goodwood Festival of Speed, BMW Group Mobile Tradition is once
again dispatching some outstanding specimens from BMW?s motorcycle racing past
onto the track. Besides an R 37 going back to 1925 and an RS 500 on which
Walter Zeller thrilled racing fans in the 1950s, Helmut Daehne on an R 90 S TT
will demonstrate motorcycle racing in its most fascinating guise. One
particular highlight scheduled to race at Goodwood this year is the BMW RS 500
Kompressor, a supercharged machine formerly driven by racing legend Schorsch
Meier and later owned by Formula One and Motorcycle World Champion John
Surtees. The special attribute

of this two-wheeler is that it has been preserved in its original pre-war
state; in other words, it was not modified for subsequent racing involvements
after the Second World War. BMW Group Mobile Tradition recently acquired this
unique motorcycle from John Surtees and will be presenting it at Goodwood for
the first time as part of its collection, with Karl-Heinz Kalbfell, BMW Group
Senior Vice President Group Marketing astride the historic machine. The
selection of BMW motorcycles on display will be rounded off by three models
from the current Boxer Cup.

Comprehensive exhibition in the pavilion
of BMW Group Mobile Tradition.

The BMW Group has been a firm fixture of the Goodwood Festival of Speed for ten
years now. As in previous years, the 2003 event will also feature a pavilion
with exhibits from the company's racing past that afford a fascinating insight
into the world of BMW driving pleasure to an anticipated 140,000 visitors.
Among other exhibits, the engine of the Brabham BT52B BMW race car will be on
show. Highlights of the exhibition celebrating '80 Years of BMW Motorcycles'
will include an R 32 going back to 1923 and Ernst Henne's world record-breaking
motorcycle of 1937. Rounding off the presence of BMW Group Mobile Tradition at
Goodwood will be a range of accessories and spare parts for sale.