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Et c'est vrai que BM en GT, si cela se transformait en réalité, oulalalala!!!
BMW TARGETS M6 SPORTSCAR RETURN
BMW has taken the first step towards a return to front-line sportscar racing with its new V10-engined M6 coupe. Officially, the German marque has no plans to re-enter a discipline it last competed in full-time in the 2001 American Le Mans Series. But Autosport can reveal that it has entered into a dialogue with the FIA, the sport’s governing body, to see how the car could be made competitive under the new GT1 class rules being introduced in 2005. The FIA and the organisers of the Le Mans 24 Hours have agreed on a common set of regulations for ’05. The next step is to work out how to incorporate mass-produced cars . Cars built in high volumes would have greater freedom in their structure and engine position. Le Mans has already tried to woo such cars into its GT classes, but BMW would be the first manufacturer to join up. FIA GT Championship boss Stephane Ratel said: “It would be fantastic to have
BMW in our series. It is a great manufacturer.”
Ratel said it was now the FIA’s job to ensure a car such as the M6 could be competitive.
“A front-engined sportscar, such as the Ferrari 550 Maranello or the Aston Martin DBR9, should be the baseline of performance in FIA GTs,” he said. “It is up to the FIA to bring supercars [such as the Maserati MC12] down to that level and cars like the BMW up to it.”
BMW is not ruling out a return to a class in which it has kept a foothold by dusting off its ’01-vintage M3 GTR to compete in the Nürburgring and Spa 24-hour races.
“There is nothing planned, but we are keeping an open mind,” said a spokesman.
An M6 GT1 racer is at least two years away, however. By ’07 BMW may be ready to leave the World Touring Car Championship to importer-backed teams and send the factory Schnitzer squad back to sportscars, possibly in America where it has had a long-standing presence in sportscar racing in a variety of series with M3-based machinery
[size="1"][ 25.11.2004, 00:15: Message édité par : nicosK3 ][/size]
Et c'est vrai que BM en GT, si cela se transformait en réalité, oulalalala!!!
BMW TARGETS M6 SPORTSCAR RETURN
BMW has taken the first step towards a return to front-line sportscar racing with its new V10-engined M6 coupe. Officially, the German marque has no plans to re-enter a discipline it last competed in full-time in the 2001 American Le Mans Series. But Autosport can reveal that it has entered into a dialogue with the FIA, the sport’s governing body, to see how the car could be made competitive under the new GT1 class rules being introduced in 2005. The FIA and the organisers of the Le Mans 24 Hours have agreed on a common set of regulations for ’05. The next step is to work out how to incorporate mass-produced cars . Cars built in high volumes would have greater freedom in their structure and engine position. Le Mans has already tried to woo such cars into its GT classes, but BMW would be the first manufacturer to join up. FIA GT Championship boss Stephane Ratel said: “It would be fantastic to have
BMW in our series. It is a great manufacturer.”
Ratel said it was now the FIA’s job to ensure a car such as the M6 could be competitive.
“A front-engined sportscar, such as the Ferrari 550 Maranello or the Aston Martin DBR9, should be the baseline of performance in FIA GTs,” he said. “It is up to the FIA to bring supercars [such as the Maserati MC12] down to that level and cars like the BMW up to it.”
BMW is not ruling out a return to a class in which it has kept a foothold by dusting off its ’01-vintage M3 GTR to compete in the Nürburgring and Spa 24-hour races.
“There is nothing planned, but we are keeping an open mind,” said a spokesman.
An M6 GT1 racer is at least two years away, however. By ’07 BMW may be ready to leave the World Touring Car Championship to importer-backed teams and send the factory Schnitzer squad back to sportscars, possibly in America where it has had a long-standing presence in sportscar racing in a variety of series with M3-based machinery
[size="1"][ 25.11.2004, 00:15: Message édité par : nicosK3 ][/size]