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BMW-Sauber changes to Sauber F1 Team for 2011

BMW-Sauber has received the FIA compliance to change its name to Sauber F1 Team, but the change will come into force only in 2011. Hinwil-based team is competing in this season as the BMW-Sauber, despite the fact that the German manufacturer BMW has withdrawn from the race late last year. The decision was taken primarily [...]

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Alpina B6 GT1 by Aurora Racing

While BMW has a proper racing heritage the 6 Series is not one of the models that contributed much to it. The car we have here may change things a bit as it represents the result of a project destined to prep the car for GT1 racing regulations.

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BMW Art Car’s progress at Le Mans

Continuing a long spanning tradtion, BMW entered a M3 GT2 Art Car at the 24 Hours of Le Mans race in their comeback to the fabled motor sport event. Unfortunately despite a good show at the endurance race at Nurburgring and an amazing paintjob done by Jeff Koons this isn’t enough to win at the [...]

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More about the BMW Art Car by Jeff Koons

BMW presented its new Art Car at Centre Pompidou in Paris. BMW M3 GT2 is decorated by Jeff Koons and will compete in 24-hour race at Le Mans. Jeff Koons unveiled alongside BMW the result of the 17th edition of the BMW Art Car project. The model was presented in front of 300 special guests [...]

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Jeff Koons’ BMW M3 GT2 Art Car Racer Unveiled

BMW’s 17th Art Car, a racing tradition spanning more than 35 years, was officially unveiled at a special event last night at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France. The artist chosen by the Bavarians for this creation is American Jeff Koon, who first showed us a sketch of his creation almost a couple of months [...]

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Nurburgring celebration in G-Power style

For those of you who think the BMW M3 GTS is a bit of a weakling, even in the Nurburgring endurance win celebratory GTS-R form but still want a BMW ready to take down the Porsche 911 GT3 RS these two might just be the thing. The crew over at G-Power decided to celebrate the [...]

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BMW M3 GTS-R may celebrate Nurburgring victory

Most of you still have a fresh memory of BMW winning at the 24 Hours of Nurburgring last weekend after a five years since the last victory of the manufacturer on this track, four of which had been taken by Porsche. Apparently BMW are so pleased with fan support of this race and the performance [...]

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BMW wins at 24 Hours of Nurburgring

Just as the title says, the Bavarians have won the fabled race that ended just hours ago with one of their new BMW M3 GT2′s run by Team Schnitzer. The No. 25 BMW Team Schnitzer M3 GT2 of Jorg Müller, Augusto Farfus, Uwe Alzen and Pedro Lamy was the car to finish first at the [...]

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BMW Z4 sDrive35is Mille Miglia

This car has quite a long and important name, but then again it is quite a car. Or is it? BMW have decided that it’s about time a limited edition was created to celebrate past successes at the infamous Mille Miglia race.

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BMW M3 GTS recored at the ‘Ring

The Nordschleife got a very interesting visit recently in the form of the 2011 BMW M3 GTS. The limited edition of the E92 M3 will stand to replace the CSL version of the previous generation of M3 as this is still a lightweight, hardcore, track racing focused car that is still road legal.

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