As the most successful F1 driver on the grid with 17 victories and two Drivers’ titles, Niki Lauda would already have been among the favourites to walk away with the 1979 Procar Championship.
Read MoreConsidering just how unbelievably ugly most BMWs from the modern era have become, it may surprise some of our younger readers that, from the late 1960s through to the early 2000s, the…
Read MoreAlthough the 3.2-litre E36 M3 Evolution has the most powerful engine fitted to BMW Motorsport’s compact 90s offering, our favourite iteration of the second generation M3 was the limited run GT…
Read MoreEven though an oil crisis caused by a 1973-1974 war in the Middle East massively curtailed its works career, BMW’s E9 CSL remained the best top flight Group 2 racing car throughout the remainder of…
Read MoreBy dropping a close relative of the M1’s dual overhead cam 24 valve straight six into the elegant Paul Bracq-designed 6-series bodyshell which was then further enhanced with uprated…
Read MoreFor 1995, BMW decided to run its E36-based M3 GTR in IMSA’s popular GTS-2 category for GT racing cars. The programme was managed on BMW’s behalf by Tom Milner’s Prototype…
Read MoreHaving been conceived with the primary intention of serving as the basis for a Group 4 and 5 racing programme, the prospect of a multi-year homologation delay owing to production issues meant…
Read MoreWhen it came to an off-the-shelf mid-sized super saloon during the first half of the 1980s, nothing in the Mercedes-Benz, Jaguar or Alfa Romeo arsenal could touch the BMW Motorsport-enhanced…
Read MoreWith a bigger bodyshell and more refined six cylinder engine than the outgoing E30 M3 (which had used a racey four cylinder motor), in many ways BMW’s E36-based expression of the M3 theme felt…
Read MoreThe earliest Alpina-tuned variants of the Paul Bracq-styled E12 arrived very soon after this, the first generation 5-series, made its debut at the Frankfurt Motor Show in September 1972. Having initially…
Read MoreAlthough the radical M8 never made it into production, BMW Motorsport did work their magic on another iteration of the E31 8-series: the 850 CSi. Unusually, the 850 CSi did without the familiar…
Read MoreIn March 2001, 18 months after the E46 M3’s launch, BMW added their Sequential Manual Gearbox II to the options list (SMG II). Following on from the original SMG unit offered on the E36 M3, this…
Read MoreThe European Touring Car Championship’s Group A formula kicked off in 1982 and saw BMW’s E28 528i emerge as the premier challenger in the top flight Division 3 category. However, with four…
Read MoreHaving employed straight six engines for its range-topping Motorposrt-tuned 5-series since the 1970s, BMW broke with convention and shoehorned a five-litre V8 into the E39 M5 launched in 1998.
Read MoreBMW first introduced a turbocharged iteration of the 2002 in order to retain its competitive advantage over Porsche and Alfa Romeo in the premier Division 3 category of the 1969 European…
Read MoreHaving been created with the sole intention of toppling Ford from its position atop the premier Division 1 class in Touring Car racing, the BMW Motorsport-developed E9-based 3.0 CSL did just that…
Read MoreCompared to the first generation E30 M3 which was a raucous and comparatively unrefined homologation special conceived purely to create the most effective Group A racing car possible, the…
Read MoreThanks to compact dimensions and low weight, a BMW Motorsport-tuned version of the E82 1-series was always going to become a critically acclaimed performance icon. Effectively an early…
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