Fotos BMW ///M Hybrid V8, para las 24h de Le Mans?
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NEW BMW GTP LMDh Testing at Road Atlanta
5 oct 2022
BMW testing their 2023 M Hybrid V8 GTP LMDh IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Series challenger at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta at the first LMDh test open to the Media. This is the first car BMW has developed in over 20 years with ambitions to head to Le Mans by 2024
5 oct 2022
BMW testing their 2023 M Hybrid V8 GTP LMDh IMSA Weathertech SportsCar Series challenger at Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta at the first LMDh test open to the Media. This is the first car BMW has developed in over 20 years with ambitions to head to Le Mans by 2024
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WE ARE M – Mbedded, Episode 9. THE LINE-UP.
11 nov 2022
BMW M
It’s time for intense testing of the new BMW M Hybrid V8 prototype and some driver announcements. The new Mbedded episode offers the first glimpse of the impressive power of the car on track and at emotional moments for the BMW M works drivers – from joy to thrill to tears…
11 nov 2022
BMW M
It’s time for intense testing of the new BMW M Hybrid V8 prototype and some driver announcements. The new Mbedded episode offers the first glimpse of the impressive power of the car on track and at emotional moments for the BMW M works drivers – from joy to thrill to tears…
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IMSA GTP 101: BMW M Hybrid V8 Tech Tour
The RACER Channel
16 ene 2023
RACER's new GTP 101 video series continues in alphabetical order with a tech tour of BMW's M Hybrid V8 prototype.
The RACER Channel
16 ene 2023
RACER's new GTP 101 video series continues in alphabetical order with a tech tour of BMW's M Hybrid V8 prototype.
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WE ARE M – Mbedded. A NEW ERA.
BMW M
After 18 months of intense preparation and hard work, the BMW M Hybrid V8 celebrated its race debut at the 2023 Daytona 24 Hours. The premiere of the first BMW M Motorsport race car with a hybrid powertrain became an emotional rollercoaster ride. A story of excitement, big moments, setbacks and fighting spirit.
BMW M
After 18 months of intense preparation and hard work, the BMW M Hybrid V8 celebrated its race debut at the 2023 Daytona 24 Hours. The premiere of the first BMW M Motorsport race car with a hybrid powertrain became an emotional rollercoaster ride. A story of excitement, big moments, setbacks and fighting spirit.
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BMW M Hybrid V8 celebrates historic first victory at IMSA race in Watkins Glen
27 jun 2023
The BMW M Team RLL has been awarded the victory in the 6-hour race of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA series) at Watkins Glen (USA).
Watkins Glen. The BMW M Team RLL has been awarded the victory in the 6-hour race of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA series) at Watkins Glen (USA). Connor De Phillippi (USA) and Nick Yelloly (GBR) crossed the finish line in second place after a dramatic final phase, but a post-race penalty for the first-place Porsche due to a technical violation granted the historic first win for the BMW M Hybrid V8. The last time a BMW prototype won a race in North America was in 1999 at Sebring (USA) with the BMW V12 LMR.
Reactions to the post-race victory:
Andreas Roos (Head of BMW M Motorsport): “Wow! The first victory for the BMW M Hybrid V8 – a historic day for BMW M Motorsport and a significant milestone for our LMDh project! Congratulations and thank you to everyone at BMW M Motorsport in Munich, the BMW M Team RLL, and drivers Connor De Phillippi and Nick Yelloly! While we would have preferred to win on the track, this success is the result of long, hard work and the well-deserved reward for the fantastic performances of everyone involved in this programme. I am particularly delighted that our pace was consistently strong throughout the weekend, and we set the top times. We have been improving from race to race, and we have earned our first victory in the GTP class. I am incredibly proud of our entire crew!”
Nick Yelloly (#25 BMW M Hybrid V8, 1st place): “I am incredibly happy for the entire team, who have more than earned this victory through their hard work. We have been steadily improving, and the first win was within reach. It wasn't the way we wanted to win, as we prefer to win on the track and celebrate on the podium. However, we gladly accept the victory nonetheless – after all, it is the first for the BMW M Hybrid V8 and also my first in the IMSA series. Therefore, it holds a special significance for all of us.”
27 jun 2023
The BMW M Team RLL has been awarded the victory in the 6-hour race of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA series) at Watkins Glen (USA).
Watkins Glen. The BMW M Team RLL has been awarded the victory in the 6-hour race of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship (IMSA series) at Watkins Glen (USA). Connor De Phillippi (USA) and Nick Yelloly (GBR) crossed the finish line in second place after a dramatic final phase, but a post-race penalty for the first-place Porsche due to a technical violation granted the historic first win for the BMW M Hybrid V8. The last time a BMW prototype won a race in North America was in 1999 at Sebring (USA) with the BMW V12 LMR.
Reactions to the post-race victory:
Andreas Roos (Head of BMW M Motorsport): “Wow! The first victory for the BMW M Hybrid V8 – a historic day for BMW M Motorsport and a significant milestone for our LMDh project! Congratulations and thank you to everyone at BMW M Motorsport in Munich, the BMW M Team RLL, and drivers Connor De Phillippi and Nick Yelloly! While we would have preferred to win on the track, this success is the result of long, hard work and the well-deserved reward for the fantastic performances of everyone involved in this programme. I am particularly delighted that our pace was consistently strong throughout the weekend, and we set the top times. We have been improving from race to race, and we have earned our first victory in the GTP class. I am incredibly proud of our entire crew!”
Nick Yelloly (#25 BMW M Hybrid V8, 1st place): “I am incredibly happy for the entire team, who have more than earned this victory through their hard work. We have been steadily improving, and the first win was within reach. It wasn't the way we wanted to win, as we prefer to win on the track and celebrate on the podium. However, we gladly accept the victory nonetheless – after all, it is the first for the BMW M Hybrid V8 and also my first in the IMSA series. Therefore, it holds a special significance for all of us.”
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20th Art Car Announced - Julie Mehretu to create on the M Hybrid V8 for Le Mans 2024
“Dynamism within a form”: Internationally renowned artist Julie Mehretu will create the 20th BMW Art Car. Traditional link between racing and art continues with the start of the BMW M Hybrid V8 at the 24 Hour race of Le Mans in 2024.
Munich/New York. BMW announced a collaboration today at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City with internationally renowned New York-based artist Julie Mehretu to create the 20th BMW Art Car. Mehretu was unanimously chosen by an international jury of museum directors and curators, and will be given total creative freedom to design the next instalment in BMW’s legendary collection of ”rolling sculptures”. BMW will enter Mehretu’s BMW M Hybrid V8 Art Car in the 24 Hour race of Le Mans in June 2024. This continues an almost 50-year tradition that has delighted not only motorsport enthusiasts but anyone into design or the arts, technology and mobility. Since 1975, artists such as Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Cao Fei, and John Baldessari have created racing cars for BMW.
“I've loved cars for most of my life, as toys, as objects, as possibilities. It is from that space that I'm really excited to be working on the next BMW Art Car more than anything,” stated Julie Mehretu. “The thrill of the speed, the 24 Hour race of Le Mans and what is possible to invent in hybrid and fully electric vehicles as future modes of play and pushing ahead into new terrains of transportation and motorsports.”
”The BMW Art Car Collection is a central element of our global cultural commitment, which has been in place for more than 50 years," said Ilka Horstmeier, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Human Resources and Real Estate, at the presentation in New York. ”The combination of technology and art, of design and motorsport sparks a timeless fascination. I have admired Julie Mehretu's work for many years. I am particularly pleased that our cooperation will have a lasting cultural impact beyond the vehicle she has designed, especially in Africa.”
An artistic concept beyond the car: Translocal Media Workshop Series in 2025
The collaboration between BMW and Julie Mehretu will not only leave its mark on the Le Mans racetrack.
There are far and few spaces on the continent of Africa where artists can convene, exchange, and experiment in ways that foster collaboration across local contexts. Julie Mehretu and Mehret Mandefro, Emmy-nominated producer, writer and co-founder of the Realness Institute which aims to strengthen the media ecosystem across Africa, will host a series of gatherings in eight African cities over the course of nine months to open up space for artists to meet, exchange, and collaborate in translocal ways. These workshops have the sole intention of opening up a forum for the artists to consider new pathways to implementing just civic futures in their respective local communities and harness the power of the translocal collective.
The methodology of these workshops is based on the Exodus Media Workshop (EMW) which is an arts education laboratory initiated by Denniston Hill that focuses on the inter-dependent inventions of image making and representation in the media. The workshop begins from the shared intention that we must disentangle self-being from its mediated depiction, and that our identities can be reclaimed and reshaped by our own standards.
The outcome and results of the workshops will be presented together with the 20th BMW Art Car at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town in 2025.
The artist.
Julie Mehretu was born in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, in 1970. Together with her family she moved to the USA at the age of seven. She received her B.A. from Kalamazoo College, Michigan, graduated from The Rhode Island School of Design with a Masters of Fine Arts degree in 1997, and also spent a year studying at Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar Senegal. In exploring palimpsests of history, from geological time to a modern-day phenomenology of the social, her paintings, prints and drawings engage the viewer in a dynamic visual articulation of contemporary experience, a depiction of social behavior and the psychogeography of space.
Mehretu has been running a studio in New York since 1999. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the MacArthur Award and the US Department of State Medal of Arts Award. A representative survey of her work has been exhibited at LACMA (Los Angeles), the High Museum (Atlanta), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), and the Walker Museum of Art (Minneapolis) from 2019 to 2023. In 2021, Julie Mehretu became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Design.
Julie Mehretu is represented globally by Marian Goodman Gallery, and also exhibits with White Cube, London, and Carlier Gebauer, Berlin.
Statements of the jury. Unanimous nomination.
Julie Mehretu was unanimously chosen to design the 20th BMW Art Car in 2018 by an international jury from the art world with an outstanding reputation based on their experience and expertise in leading positions at major museums and galleries. It is composed of the following personalities:
Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago:
“Julie Mehretu is the perfect artist for this early 21st century. To merge her work with the shape and form of a speeding vehicle is really an alignment of perfection. For years, Julie has painted speed and for a long time worked very successfully at scale. This means to me that she will be able to create a form that you can see from a distance because with many of her large commissions, you need to back up to really enjoy them. She has an understanding of space and speed that is a perfect partner to the BMW Art Car.”
Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town:
“I think that Julie Mehretu’s practice combines a sprawling visuality with a political background. She will be the perfect artist to really moderate this tension about race, technology, car, velocity and bring it into a form that is legible for the wider public.”
Okwui Enwezor (1963 - 2019), former Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich:
“Julie Mehretu’s work incapsulates different questions of movement. She expresses dynamism within a form. It is a very clear and sound understanding of how the object acts in space. And I think this really makes it a very exciting proposition to have an artist of her calibre who has the long-standing experience to take on this project.”
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, London:
“Julie Mehretu creates paintings which very often go beyond the canvas. Her practice is very interdisciplinary and of course, that’s exactly what will happen with the BMW Art Car. The artists do not just develop ideas alone in their studio, but in dialogue with many people in the company and particularly with the engineers, the inventors and the designers.”
Cecilia Alemani, Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director and Chief Curator, High Line Art, New York:
“I think Julie is a wonderful artist who has been able to bring the three-dimensionality of our reality into the two-dimensionality of paintings and flat surfaces. She is someone that has been looking at our cities, the speed of our culture, vectors and velocity and these are all themes that resonate with the BMW Art Car. Her project for the BMW Art Car will be compelling and bring together all these aspects into this wonderful platform.”
Stephanie Rosenthal, Director, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi:
“Julie Mehretu is mainly known for large-scale two-dimensional works which are based on speed, space, creating and imagining space. And so now working with the BMW Art Car really will extend, I think, her experience of working with a three-dimensional object and kind of implementing her idea of space, and also probably become a form of futurist architecture exploring technology. And, therefore, I think she’s a brilliant pick.”
The BMW M Hybrid V8.
The canvas for the 20th BMW Art Car is the BMW M Hybrid V8. BMW M GmbH's new competition car in endurance racing features a hybrid drive system with around 640 hp, whose 4.0-liter V8 engine is supported by an electric motor (max speed: up to 345 kph/215 mph, depending on track layout). This makes the prototype race car, which weighs just 1,030 kilograms, the poster child for typical M performance and the fascination with electrified drives.
The BMW M Hybrid V8 is currently competing successfully in the GTP (Grand Touring Prototype) class of the North American IMSA endurance racing series. BMW M Motorsport will also return to the FIA World Endurance Championship in the 2024 season. In the races for the official FIA World Endurance Championship, the BMW M Hybrid V8 will face top-class competition in the Hypercars category. This means that the BMW M Hybrid V8 will also be competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans – the first BMW M Motorsport prototype since the BMW V12 LMR won the classic in 1999.
The BMW Art Car Collection.
Since 1975, renowned artists from all over the world have been designing BMW Art Cars. The initiative came from French racing driver and art lover Hervé Poulain, who, in collaboration with then Head of BMW Motorsport Jochen Neerpasch, asked his artist friend Alexander Calder to paint an automobile. The result was a BMW 3.0 CSL that competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1975, where it became a crowd favorite. This was the birth of the BMW Art Car Collection.
In the years that followed, renowned artists such as Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Esther Mahlangu, David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Ólafur Elíasson and Jeff Koons added further BMW Art Cars to the collection, each in their own individual style. Most recently, Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei and American John Baldessari each presented a BMW Art Car based on the BMW M6 GT3 in 2016 and 2017. The BMW Art Cars are not only shown at their home, the BMW Museum in Munich, but also travel around the world as part of international exhibitions.
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“Dynamism within a form”: Internationally renowned artist Julie Mehretu will create the 20th BMW Art Car. Traditional link between racing and art continues with the start of the BMW M Hybrid V8 at the 24 Hour race of Le Mans in 2024.
Munich/New York. BMW announced a collaboration today at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City with internationally renowned New York-based artist Julie Mehretu to create the 20th BMW Art Car. Mehretu was unanimously chosen by an international jury of museum directors and curators, and will be given total creative freedom to design the next instalment in BMW’s legendary collection of ”rolling sculptures”. BMW will enter Mehretu’s BMW M Hybrid V8 Art Car in the 24 Hour race of Le Mans in June 2024. This continues an almost 50-year tradition that has delighted not only motorsport enthusiasts but anyone into design or the arts, technology and mobility. Since 1975, artists such as Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Jenny Holzer, Jeff Koons, Cao Fei, and John Baldessari have created racing cars for BMW.
“I've loved cars for most of my life, as toys, as objects, as possibilities. It is from that space that I'm really excited to be working on the next BMW Art Car more than anything,” stated Julie Mehretu. “The thrill of the speed, the 24 Hour race of Le Mans and what is possible to invent in hybrid and fully electric vehicles as future modes of play and pushing ahead into new terrains of transportation and motorsports.”
”The BMW Art Car Collection is a central element of our global cultural commitment, which has been in place for more than 50 years," said Ilka Horstmeier, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Human Resources and Real Estate, at the presentation in New York. ”The combination of technology and art, of design and motorsport sparks a timeless fascination. I have admired Julie Mehretu's work for many years. I am particularly pleased that our cooperation will have a lasting cultural impact beyond the vehicle she has designed, especially in Africa.”
An artistic concept beyond the car: Translocal Media Workshop Series in 2025
The collaboration between BMW and Julie Mehretu will not only leave its mark on the Le Mans racetrack.
There are far and few spaces on the continent of Africa where artists can convene, exchange, and experiment in ways that foster collaboration across local contexts. Julie Mehretu and Mehret Mandefro, Emmy-nominated producer, writer and co-founder of the Realness Institute which aims to strengthen the media ecosystem across Africa, will host a series of gatherings in eight African cities over the course of nine months to open up space for artists to meet, exchange, and collaborate in translocal ways. These workshops have the sole intention of opening up a forum for the artists to consider new pathways to implementing just civic futures in their respective local communities and harness the power of the translocal collective.
The methodology of these workshops is based on the Exodus Media Workshop (EMW) which is an arts education laboratory initiated by Denniston Hill that focuses on the inter-dependent inventions of image making and representation in the media. The workshop begins from the shared intention that we must disentangle self-being from its mediated depiction, and that our identities can be reclaimed and reshaped by our own standards.
The outcome and results of the workshops will be presented together with the 20th BMW Art Car at the Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa in Cape Town in 2025.
The artist.
Julie Mehretu was born in Addis Ababa, the capital city of Ethiopia, in 1970. Together with her family she moved to the USA at the age of seven. She received her B.A. from Kalamazoo College, Michigan, graduated from The Rhode Island School of Design with a Masters of Fine Arts degree in 1997, and also spent a year studying at Cheikh Anta Diop University, Dakar Senegal. In exploring palimpsests of history, from geological time to a modern-day phenomenology of the social, her paintings, prints and drawings engage the viewer in a dynamic visual articulation of contemporary experience, a depiction of social behavior and the psychogeography of space.
Mehretu has been running a studio in New York since 1999. She has received numerous awards for her work, including the MacArthur Award and the US Department of State Medal of Arts Award. A representative survey of her work has been exhibited at LACMA (Los Angeles), the High Museum (Atlanta), the Whitney Museum of American Art (New York), and the Walker Museum of Art (Minneapolis) from 2019 to 2023. In 2021, Julie Mehretu became a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the National Academy of Design.
Julie Mehretu is represented globally by Marian Goodman Gallery, and also exhibits with White Cube, London, and Carlier Gebauer, Berlin.
Statements of the jury. Unanimous nomination.
Julie Mehretu was unanimously chosen to design the 20th BMW Art Car in 2018 by an international jury from the art world with an outstanding reputation based on their experience and expertise in leading positions at major museums and galleries. It is composed of the following personalities:
- Cecilia Alemani, Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director and Chief Curator, High Line Art, New York
- Richard Armstrong, Director, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum and Foundation, New York
- Anton Belov, Director, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
- Anita Dube, artist and curator Kochi-Muziris-Biennale 2018
- Yilmaz Dziewior, Director, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
- Okwui Enwezor (1963 – 2019), former Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich
- Massimiliano Gioni, Edlis Neeson Artistic Director, New Museum, New York
- Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
- Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town
- Matthias Mühling, Director, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich
- Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, London
- Hervé Poulain, Initiator BMW Art Car Collection and CEO Artcurial
- Stephanie Rosenthal, Director, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi
Madeleine Grynsztejn, Pritzker Director, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago:
“Julie Mehretu is the perfect artist for this early 21st century. To merge her work with the shape and form of a speeding vehicle is really an alignment of perfection. For years, Julie has painted speed and for a long time worked very successfully at scale. This means to me that she will be able to create a form that you can see from a distance because with many of her large commissions, you need to back up to really enjoy them. She has an understanding of space and speed that is a perfect partner to the BMW Art Car.”
Koyo Kouoh, Executive Director and Chief Curator, Zeitz MOCAA, Cape Town:
“I think that Julie Mehretu’s practice combines a sprawling visuality with a political background. She will be the perfect artist to really moderate this tension about race, technology, car, velocity and bring it into a form that is legible for the wider public.”
Okwui Enwezor (1963 - 2019), former Director, Haus der Kunst, Munich:
“Julie Mehretu’s work incapsulates different questions of movement. She expresses dynamism within a form. It is a very clear and sound understanding of how the object acts in space. And I think this really makes it a very exciting proposition to have an artist of her calibre who has the long-standing experience to take on this project.”
Hans Ulrich Obrist, Artistic Director, Serpentine Galleries, London:
“Julie Mehretu creates paintings which very often go beyond the canvas. Her practice is very interdisciplinary and of course, that’s exactly what will happen with the BMW Art Car. The artists do not just develop ideas alone in their studio, but in dialogue with many people in the company and particularly with the engineers, the inventors and the designers.”
Cecilia Alemani, Donald R. Mullen, Jr. Director and Chief Curator, High Line Art, New York:
“I think Julie is a wonderful artist who has been able to bring the three-dimensionality of our reality into the two-dimensionality of paintings and flat surfaces. She is someone that has been looking at our cities, the speed of our culture, vectors and velocity and these are all themes that resonate with the BMW Art Car. Her project for the BMW Art Car will be compelling and bring together all these aspects into this wonderful platform.”
Stephanie Rosenthal, Director, Guggenheim Abu Dhabi:
“Julie Mehretu is mainly known for large-scale two-dimensional works which are based on speed, space, creating and imagining space. And so now working with the BMW Art Car really will extend, I think, her experience of working with a three-dimensional object and kind of implementing her idea of space, and also probably become a form of futurist architecture exploring technology. And, therefore, I think she’s a brilliant pick.”
The BMW M Hybrid V8.
The canvas for the 20th BMW Art Car is the BMW M Hybrid V8. BMW M GmbH's new competition car in endurance racing features a hybrid drive system with around 640 hp, whose 4.0-liter V8 engine is supported by an electric motor (max speed: up to 345 kph/215 mph, depending on track layout). This makes the prototype race car, which weighs just 1,030 kilograms, the poster child for typical M performance and the fascination with electrified drives.
The BMW M Hybrid V8 is currently competing successfully in the GTP (Grand Touring Prototype) class of the North American IMSA endurance racing series. BMW M Motorsport will also return to the FIA World Endurance Championship in the 2024 season. In the races for the official FIA World Endurance Championship, the BMW M Hybrid V8 will face top-class competition in the Hypercars category. This means that the BMW M Hybrid V8 will also be competing in the 24 Hours of Le Mans – the first BMW M Motorsport prototype since the BMW V12 LMR won the classic in 1999.
The BMW Art Car Collection.
Since 1975, renowned artists from all over the world have been designing BMW Art Cars. The initiative came from French racing driver and art lover Hervé Poulain, who, in collaboration with then Head of BMW Motorsport Jochen Neerpasch, asked his artist friend Alexander Calder to paint an automobile. The result was a BMW 3.0 CSL that competed in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1975, where it became a crowd favorite. This was the birth of the BMW Art Car Collection.
In the years that followed, renowned artists such as Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Esther Mahlangu, David Hockney, Jenny Holzer, Ólafur Elíasson and Jeff Koons added further BMW Art Cars to the collection, each in their own individual style. Most recently, Chinese multimedia artist Cao Fei and American John Baldessari each presented a BMW Art Car based on the BMW M6 GT3 in 2016 and 2017. The BMW Art Cars are not only shown at their home, the BMW Museum in Munich, but also travel around the world as part of international exhibitions.
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El equipo BMW M RLL rompe el hechizo: doblete con el BMW M Hybrid V8 en el IMSA de Indianápolis
IMSA Indianápolis: BMW M Team RLL rompe el hechizo: doblete para el BMW M Hybrid V8.
23 de septiembre de 2024
Indianápolis. ¡Qué día para el BMW M Team RLL, qué semana para el programa LMDh de BMW M Motorsport! Apenas unos días después del primer podio del BMW M Hybrid V8 en el Campeonato Mundial de Resistencia de la FIA, el coche LMDh ha conseguido un impresionante doblete en el Campeonato IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar. En la carrera de 6 horas en Indianápolis (EE. UU.), Philipp Eng (AUT) y Jesse Krohn (FIN) en el BMW M Hybrid V8 n.º 24 triunfaron sobre sus compañeros de equipo Connor De Phillippi (EE. UU.) y Nick Yelloly (GBR). Fue el primer doblete desde que se unió a la clase GTP y el primer éxito de la temporada actual.
En su evento local, con la sede de la empresa a solo unos kilómetros de la pista de carreras, el BMW M Team RLL logró un gran avance después de una temporada desafiante hasta ahora. Las dos tripulaciones de los coches hicieron frente a las difíciles condiciones, especialmente al comienzo de la “Batalla sobre los ladrillos” con lluvia y luego con una pista que se estaba secando, no cometieron errores y tomaron las decisiones estratégicas correctas. Fue la tripulación del #24 la que fue la primera en el grupo de cabeza en cambiar a neumáticos lisos, dando así un paso importante hacia el liderato. En las últimas vueltas, los dos BMW M Hybrid V8 mantuvieron a raya a sus competidores incluso en el denso tráfico de vueltas y decidieron el primer puesto entre ellos. Eng y Krohn celebraron no solo su primera victoria, sino también su primer podio en la categoría superior de la serie IMSA. La única otra victoria en la categoría GTP la habían conseguido De Phillippi y Yelloly en Watkins Glen (EE. UU.) en la temporada 2023.
En la clase GTD, Turner Motorsport pudo celebrar otro podio. Robby Foley, Patrick Gallagher y Jake Walker (todos de EE. UU.) condujeron el BMW M4 GT3 #96 hasta el segundo puesto. En la categoría GTD PRO, Madison Snow, Bryan Sellers y Neil Verhagen (todos de EE. UU.) cruzaron la línea de meta en octavo lugar con el BMW M4 GT3 n.º 1 de Paul Miller Racing.
Comentarios después de la carrera:
Andreas Roos (director de BMW M Motorsport): “Esta ha sido una semana increíblemente exitosa para nuestro programa LMDh con el primer podio en el FIA WEC y el primer doblete en la serie IMSA. Felicitaciones al equipo BMW M Team RLL, que, a pesar de la difícil temporada hasta ahora, ha seguido presionando junto con nuestros ingenieros de BMW M Motorsport, haciendo posible este gran éxito. Estoy muy contento de que ahora hayamos logrado convertir el potencial que nuestro BMW M Hybrid V8 ha demostrado con frecuencia esta temporada en los correspondientes resultados principales dos veces seguidas. Esta es la recompensa merecida y una gran motivación para todos los involucrados en nuestro proyecto LMDh. Felicitaciones también a Turner Motorsport por otro podio en la clase GTD, donde el equipo está teniendo una temporada sobresaliente con el BMW M4 GT3”.
Bobby Rahal (director del equipo BMW M Team RLL): “Es un gran día para nosotros. Me alegro por todos los miembros de nuestro equipo, pero más aún por nuestro proyecto conjunto con BMW M Motorsport. Hemos tenido días buenos y malos esta temporada, hemos seguido luchando y nunca nos hemos rendido. Ahora nos hemos recompensado con este doblete, aquí mismo, en uno de los mejores circuitos del mundo. Estoy increíblemente feliz”.
Philipp Eng (BMW M Hybrid V8 nº 24, 1.º puesto): “Estoy casi sin palabras. Estoy muy feliz por todos los miembros de BMW M Motorsport y del equipo BMW M RLL. Todos se han ganado este éxito con creces. Para mí, personalmente, esta victoria es muy emotiva porque he pasado por momentos difíciles aquí en Norteamérica, cuando los resultados esperados simplemente no llegaron. Hoy era nuestro día. Ahora es el momento de celebrar”.
Jesse Krohn (BMW M Hybrid V8 nº 24, 1.º puesto): “Este es mi undécimo año con BMW M Motorsport y ahora estoy aquí, en uno de los lugares más legendarios del automovilismo, habiendo ganado una carrera en la categoría reina. Es increíble. Estoy muy agradecido por el viaje que me han permitido emprender durante todo este tiempo. Ahora he ganado en todos los coches de carreras en los que me ha puesto BMW M Motorsport”.
Nick Yelloly (BMW M Hybrid V8 nº 25, 2.º puesto): “¡Qué fantástico resultado de equipo! Estoy increíblemente feliz por el equipo, que después de una buena temporada en 2023 con una victoria y cinco podios tuvo que pasar por momentos difíciles este año. Poder recompensarlos con este doblete es genial. También estoy feliz por Philipp y Jesse, que realmente merecían su primera victoria”.
Connor De Phillippi (BMW M Hybrid V8 nº 25, 2.º puesto): “Un fin de semana fenomenal para todo el equipo. Todos hicimos un gran trabajo juntos y todos contribuyeron con su parte a este éxito. El primer doblete del BMW M Hybrid V8 es fantástico, aunque me hubiera gustado un orden diferente, por supuesto. Pero mientras uno de nuestros coches esté en cabeza, ¡todo va genial!
IMSA Indianápolis: BMW M Team RLL rompe el hechizo: doblete para el BMW M Hybrid V8.
23 de septiembre de 2024
Indianápolis. ¡Qué día para el BMW M Team RLL, qué semana para el programa LMDh de BMW M Motorsport! Apenas unos días después del primer podio del BMW M Hybrid V8 en el Campeonato Mundial de Resistencia de la FIA, el coche LMDh ha conseguido un impresionante doblete en el Campeonato IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar. En la carrera de 6 horas en Indianápolis (EE. UU.), Philipp Eng (AUT) y Jesse Krohn (FIN) en el BMW M Hybrid V8 n.º 24 triunfaron sobre sus compañeros de equipo Connor De Phillippi (EE. UU.) y Nick Yelloly (GBR). Fue el primer doblete desde que se unió a la clase GTP y el primer éxito de la temporada actual.
En su evento local, con la sede de la empresa a solo unos kilómetros de la pista de carreras, el BMW M Team RLL logró un gran avance después de una temporada desafiante hasta ahora. Las dos tripulaciones de los coches hicieron frente a las difíciles condiciones, especialmente al comienzo de la “Batalla sobre los ladrillos” con lluvia y luego con una pista que se estaba secando, no cometieron errores y tomaron las decisiones estratégicas correctas. Fue la tripulación del #24 la que fue la primera en el grupo de cabeza en cambiar a neumáticos lisos, dando así un paso importante hacia el liderato. En las últimas vueltas, los dos BMW M Hybrid V8 mantuvieron a raya a sus competidores incluso en el denso tráfico de vueltas y decidieron el primer puesto entre ellos. Eng y Krohn celebraron no solo su primera victoria, sino también su primer podio en la categoría superior de la serie IMSA. La única otra victoria en la categoría GTP la habían conseguido De Phillippi y Yelloly en Watkins Glen (EE. UU.) en la temporada 2023.
En la clase GTD, Turner Motorsport pudo celebrar otro podio. Robby Foley, Patrick Gallagher y Jake Walker (todos de EE. UU.) condujeron el BMW M4 GT3 #96 hasta el segundo puesto. En la categoría GTD PRO, Madison Snow, Bryan Sellers y Neil Verhagen (todos de EE. UU.) cruzaron la línea de meta en octavo lugar con el BMW M4 GT3 n.º 1 de Paul Miller Racing.
Comentarios después de la carrera:
Andreas Roos (director de BMW M Motorsport): “Esta ha sido una semana increíblemente exitosa para nuestro programa LMDh con el primer podio en el FIA WEC y el primer doblete en la serie IMSA. Felicitaciones al equipo BMW M Team RLL, que, a pesar de la difícil temporada hasta ahora, ha seguido presionando junto con nuestros ingenieros de BMW M Motorsport, haciendo posible este gran éxito. Estoy muy contento de que ahora hayamos logrado convertir el potencial que nuestro BMW M Hybrid V8 ha demostrado con frecuencia esta temporada en los correspondientes resultados principales dos veces seguidas. Esta es la recompensa merecida y una gran motivación para todos los involucrados en nuestro proyecto LMDh. Felicitaciones también a Turner Motorsport por otro podio en la clase GTD, donde el equipo está teniendo una temporada sobresaliente con el BMW M4 GT3”.
Bobby Rahal (director del equipo BMW M Team RLL): “Es un gran día para nosotros. Me alegro por todos los miembros de nuestro equipo, pero más aún por nuestro proyecto conjunto con BMW M Motorsport. Hemos tenido días buenos y malos esta temporada, hemos seguido luchando y nunca nos hemos rendido. Ahora nos hemos recompensado con este doblete, aquí mismo, en uno de los mejores circuitos del mundo. Estoy increíblemente feliz”.
Philipp Eng (BMW M Hybrid V8 nº 24, 1.º puesto): “Estoy casi sin palabras. Estoy muy feliz por todos los miembros de BMW M Motorsport y del equipo BMW M RLL. Todos se han ganado este éxito con creces. Para mí, personalmente, esta victoria es muy emotiva porque he pasado por momentos difíciles aquí en Norteamérica, cuando los resultados esperados simplemente no llegaron. Hoy era nuestro día. Ahora es el momento de celebrar”.
Jesse Krohn (BMW M Hybrid V8 nº 24, 1.º puesto): “Este es mi undécimo año con BMW M Motorsport y ahora estoy aquí, en uno de los lugares más legendarios del automovilismo, habiendo ganado una carrera en la categoría reina. Es increíble. Estoy muy agradecido por el viaje que me han permitido emprender durante todo este tiempo. Ahora he ganado en todos los coches de carreras en los que me ha puesto BMW M Motorsport”.
Nick Yelloly (BMW M Hybrid V8 nº 25, 2.º puesto): “¡Qué fantástico resultado de equipo! Estoy increíblemente feliz por el equipo, que después de una buena temporada en 2023 con una victoria y cinco podios tuvo que pasar por momentos difíciles este año. Poder recompensarlos con este doblete es genial. También estoy feliz por Philipp y Jesse, que realmente merecían su primera victoria”.
Connor De Phillippi (BMW M Hybrid V8 nº 25, 2.º puesto): “Un fin de semana fenomenal para todo el equipo. Todos hicimos un gran trabajo juntos y todos contribuyeron con su parte a este éxito. El primer doblete del BMW M Hybrid V8 es fantástico, aunque me hubiera gustado un orden diferente, por supuesto. Pero mientras uno de nuestros coches esté en cabeza, ¡todo va genial!