Following a successful test run under race conditions at the 24 Hours of Dubai, the engineers at BMW Motorsport put the BMW M4 GT4 through another tough test last week. At the wheel of the new GT4 race cars were Jörg Müller, Dirk Adorf and BMW Motorsport Junior Nico Menzel. The four-day test in Miramas saw BMW Motorsport continue its development of the new BMW M4 GT4. The Friday of the test also featured the annual shootout between the potential candidates for the fourth year of the BMW Motorsport Junior program. The participants for the 2017 season will be decided after an extensive fitness test.
The BMW contingent for the iconic 24-hour race at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife May 27–28 continues to grow: as well as the six works-supported cars to be fielded by Rowe Racing, Schubert Motorsport, and BMW Team Schnitzer, Falken Motorsports will also run a BMW M6 GT3 in the “Green Hell”. Peter Dumbreck, Alexandre Imperatori, Marco Seefried, and Stef Dusseldorp will alternate at the wheel of the car, which will also feature in several VLN races.
“We are very happy to be able to welcome a new, and very well-known and renowned team, in the form of Falken Motorsports, who will field a BMW M6 GT3,” said BMW Motorsport Director Jens Marquardt. “It is becoming very apparent that the BMW M6 GT3 remains very attractive to our customers. The top model in our customer racing range proved its huge potential on the Nürburgring-Nordschleife in 2016. The Falken team itself was impressed by one of the car’s outings in the VLN. We hope to celebrate plenty of success together in the ‘Green Hell’.”
