Thomas Claims Maiden Victory in Sebring World Challenge TC Season Opener
By Bram • Mar 20th, 2009 • Category: Notes, Results, SCCA Pro
Seth Thomas leads the World Challenge Touring Car field at Sebring. (SCCA/Mark Weber)
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BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team M3 Debuts at ALMS Sebring Winter Test
By Bram • Jan 26th, 2009 • Category: American Le Mans, News, Notes, Your Series. Your Driver.
BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team M3 on track at ALMS Winter Test at Sebring (ALMS/Dan Boyd)
Woodcliff Lake, NJ – January 26, 2009… A new era in North American motorsports begins on January 26th with the first BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team M3 driven onto Sebring International Raceway for opening day of the American Le Mans Series Winter Test.
The official debut of BMW of North America’s newest racing program comes less than one year after the announcement of BMW’s return to ALMS competition was made at the Chicago Auto Show on February 11, 2008.
With final design changes made by BMW Motorsport following European and US testing, the new M3 race car was assembled by the BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team crew over long days and late nights beginning in December. The M3 received its final homologation inspection on Wednesday, January 21.
Auberlen, Bell Win Fresh From Florida 200 in KONI Challenge Season Opener
By Bram • Jan 23rd, 2009 • Category: Grand American Rolex, News, Notes, Results
Turner Motorsports BMW M3 driver Bill Auberlin leads the final circuit to win the KONI Challenge Series opener at Daytona Interntaional Speedway (KONI/Getty Images)
Auberlen passed Ken Wilden on Lap 70, then fought off Hugh Plumb for a lap before the caution flag flew on Lap 72. That gave Auberlen his second GS victory in three races and Bell his first-ever GS triumph in his first career class start. The duo drove the No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW M3.
Grand-Am Rolex Series Daytona Prototype Driver Focus — Laguna Seca Next Stop for Ryan Dalziel
By Bram • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Grand American Rolex, Notes, Your Series. Your Driver.
Orlando, Fla. (May 13, 2008) - California’s Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca hasn’t always been the happiest of hunting grounds for Scotland’s Ryan Dalziel but the 26-year-old aims to rectify that this weekend as he again partners with Orlando’s Henri Zogaib in the No. 2 SAMAX Motorsport BMW-Riley Daytona Prototype for Round five of the 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series Presented by Crown Royal Cask No.16, Friday 16th - Saturday 17th May.
Dalziel heads into Saturday’s ‘Rum Bum.com 250′ at the 2.238-mile road course eager to maintain the momentum built up from his first podium of the season last time out at Virginia International Raceway. Denied his maiden Grand-Am victory by a mere half a second, Ryan’s form looked ominous as he hounded former champion and series veteran Scott Pruett in the No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing Lexus-Riley through to the checkered flag last month, team-mate Zogaib then accompanying Dalziel onto the second step of the podium for the traditional champagne shower.
Grand Am GT Class — Automatic Racing and the BMW M6 — David Russell’s View
By Bram • Mar 28th, 2008 • Category: Grand American Rolex
ORLANDO, Fla. - Like any new race car our BMW M6 is undergoing numerous modifications in order to be competitive. We considered that qualifying 18th out of 42 cars at Daytona, 1.4 seconds off the pole, a solid first step. However, not unlike most teams, we are not in the series to make up the numbers and therefore must advance each area of our race car package. Subsequently, back in the shop our one-race old M6 is going thru a series of changes which we trust will move us closer to our 2008 goals.
