BMW prototype racers through the decades
manager at the time was adamant that it must have company branding so, as the story goes, he went out to the parking lot and grabbed the grille off his wife's 320i. At the M1C's next pit stop, he quickly attached it and sent it back out to race.
Eventually, a fan found the missing piece and returned it. But the 320i grille is how the car finished the season, so that's how BMW's heritage collection has kept the car, even though they have the correct part.The 1986 BMW GTP cars were built from March 86G chassis and powered by a 2.1-liter variant of the aforementioned Formula 1 turbo four. Tuned byNorth America, it is said that power could be dialed up to over 1,000 horses, but in this guise it was tuned for about 700.
Progress was slow in the GTP, but towards the end of the 1986 season the GTP won the 6 Hours at Watkins Glen. It seemed that the team's fortunes were on the upswing, but it was too late. Higher-ups decided to cancel the program.The BMW V12 LMR is the company's most successful prototype to date. It raced on both sides of the Atlantic, inand in the ALMS series, never retiring a single race. The chassis was developed by Williams, running a 6.
BMW says they interpreted the rulebook a little different than the other teams. Most built a roll hoop that would encompass both driver and"mechanic" as tradition from the old days of Le Mans. BMW built theirs to cover the driver only. There was some deliberation over the design, but in the end the sanctioning body approved it and it became a dominant car that year.
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