Colin Wood
Colin Wood Associate Editor
8/20/24 4:26 p.m.
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What's BMW cooking up now? According to Björn Lellmann, Head of Customer Racing at BMW M Motorsport, a "successor model to the BMW M235i Racing, BMW M240i Racing, and BMW M2 CS Racing."

Following in the footsteps of those predecessors, BMW hopes this car provides an entry-level stepping stone to GT3 and GT4 racing.

Furthermore, Lellmann said, “From …

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Coniglio Rampante
Coniglio Rampante Reader
8/20/24 4:50 p.m.

From the article:

"Furthermore, Lellmann said, “From our point of view, this also includes offering a car for grassroots racing...."


Boy, it sounds like he thinks it's time for a GRM racing team.  You've got the stickers, you've got know-how, you've got a solid base of fans that advertisers covet.  It may be time to take that next step and turn whatever pile of money you may have into a much smaller pile of money. 
 

Or as more succinctly said in Animal House

Otter:  "I think that this situation absolutely requires a really futile and stupid gesture be done on somebody's part!"

Bluto:  "We're just the guys to do it."

 

You know what you have to do. devil

RacingComputers
RacingComputers GRM+ Memberand HalfDork
8/20/24 5:47 p.m.

Toga Toga Toga

kevlarcorolla
kevlarcorolla Dork
8/20/24 9:26 p.m.

Hmmm,my idea of entry level and theirs is dramatically different......

Cedricn
Cedricn New Reader
8/21/24 11:22 a.m.

Quite hilarious and out of touch that they call it grassroots racing. I haven't yet seen the pricetag of course, but i guess it will be hefty :) 

racerfink
racerfink UberDork
8/21/24 4:36 p.m.

In reply to Cedricn :

I'm guessing $140k for the cheapest one

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