BMW Motorsport News

Whether in the DTM, the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar
Championship, or countless other championships: Week after week BMW
teams and drivers around the world do battle for points, victories
and titles. Away from the track too, members of the large BMW
Motorsport family around the world are also creating headlines. The
“BMW Motorsport News” allows us to regularly summarise all the
action for you in a compact and informative manner. This way, you
are always up to speed.

 

Social media: Farfus and Eng take fans with them via Instagram Stories.

Within the space of a week, the 24 Hours of Daytona (USA) and the 12
Hours of Bathurst (AUS) mark two major events in the 2018 endurance
season. Two BMW works drivers will be in action in both races: Augusto
Farfus (BRA) and Philipp Eng (AUT) will first compete as the BMW M8
GTE makes its debut at Daytona. Then after the 24-hour marathon, they
will embark on the 16,000-kilometre flight from the USA to Mount
Panorama, Australia. BMW fans around the world can be part of this
extraordinary motorsport journey from continent to continent on
Instagram. Both Farfus and Eng will regularly use Instagram Stories to
provide exclusive insights into what goes on behind the scenes at the
24 Hours of Daytona and the 12 Hours of Bathurst. It is the first time
that two drivers will take over the BMW Motorsport Instagram account
at the same time. Back in December 2017, António Félix da Costa (POR)
shared his “story” from the Hong Kong (CHN) season opener of the ABB
FIA Formula E Championship in 24 short clips in an Instagram takeover.
The BMW Motorsport Instagram account went live in 2016 live and
currently has around 406,000 followers. You can access it here: www.instagram.com/bmwmotorsport.

 

24h Daytona: Tomczyk to reinforce Turner Motorsport.

Turner Motorsport is set to receive VIP support for the 24 Hours of
Daytona (USA) next weekend. Martin Tomczyk (GER) will be in action for
the Amesbury (USA) team in the GTD class at the endurance classic. He
will alternate at the wheel of the number 96 BMW M6 GT3 with Jens
Klingmann (GER) and other drivers. The other Turner drivers will be
announced next week. Tomczyk contested his first race in the USA in
2017 at Daytona and went on to contest the entire season in the GTLM
class of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IWSC) for BMW
Team RLL. This year, the former DTM champion will be in action in the
FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) in the new BMW M8 GTE.

 

Blancpain GT Series Asia: Studie AG competes with BMW M4 GT4.

BMW Team Studie will contest the 2018 season of the Blancpain GT
Series Asia with two new BMW M4 GT4s. Previously, the crew of team
principal Bob Suzuki (JPN) contested the Japanese Super GT
Championship GT300 class with a BMW M6 GT3. They are the first
Japanese team to contest an entire season in the Blancpain GT Series
Asia. The driver line-up will be announced at a later date. The season
gets underway on 14th/15th April in Sepang (MAS).