Successful weekend for BMW Team RLL and Turner Motorsport at the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park.

Munich
. BMW Team RLL finished second and fourth in the GTLM class at
the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship race at the Canadian
Tire Motorsport Park (CAN)

. The GTD class win went to the #96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6
GT3 driven by Bill Auberlen and Robby Foley (both USA).

 

John Edwards (USA) and Jesse Krohn (FIN) took the runner-up finish in
GTLM class after starting from the pole position, finishing 1.778
seconds behind the winning Porsche. The result was the first podium of
the season for the #24 BMW M8 GTE and moves BMW back to second place
in GTLM class manufacturer points standings. Tom Blomqvist (GBR) and
Connor De Phillippi (USA) finished fourth in the #25 BMW M8 GTE, less
than nine seconds behind their teammates. The two BMW M8 GTEs had
locked out the front row of the grid, finishing P1 and P2 in
qualifying on Saturday.

 

With the momentum of the team’s second place finish last Sunday at
Watkins Glen International (USA), Turner Motorsport scored its first
GTD class victory of the season with Bill Auberlen and Robby Foley
driving the #96 BMW M6 GT3 to the win from pole. The victory was
Auberlen’s 59th career North American sports car racing
victory moving the BMW driver to within one win of a tie with Scott
Pruett (USA) for the lead in all-time wins.

 

Brandon Fry (Technical Director BMW Team RLL): “This
was a good bounce back after a tough weekend at the Glen. Both of our
BMWs were competitive, but we just did not have quite enough for the
Porsches at the end. We will regroup and come back after them at Lime
Rock. Congratulations to our BMW brothers at Turner Motorsport for
their first win of the season and to Bill Auberlen for his
59th all-time victory.”

 

John Edwards (#24 BMW M8 GTE, 2nd place):
“It is great to be back on the podium, but the result is bitter-sweet
as we had the car to beat for quite a bit of the race.”

 

Jesse Krohn (#24 BMW M8 GTE, 2nd place):
“A driver always expects a win after starting on the pole, but today
just was not our day. We had all the ingredients, but could not get
the mix right. Anyway, P2 is still a very good result.”

 

Tom Blomqvist (#25 BMW M8 GTE 4th place):
“I am disappointed with myself for losing three positions at the
start. Ultimately, we had to make some strategy changes to try to make
it up, but unfortunately the podium was just out of reach.”

 

Connor De Phillippi (#25 BMW M8 GTE, 4th
place):
“We expected more from ourselves today than fourth,
but we lost some performance compared with yesterday. It’s great that
the team is back on the podium. Hopefully, that will give us some
momentum heading to the next rounds of the championship.”