50 years of BMW M and the 50th staging of the Nürburgring 24 Hours – this year’s Eifel endurance classic is all about special anniversaries. It will also be the first outing for the new BMW M4 GT3 at the Nordschleife’s biggest event of the season. In total, BMW M Motorsport teams will field no fewer than seven BMW M4 GT3s in the Nürburgring 24 Hours.
ROWE Racing competes with two BMW M4 GT3s with Augusto Farfus, Philipp Eng, Nick Yelloly and Connor De Phillippi crewing one car. The team’s other BMW M4 GT3 will be driven by Nick Catsburg, Marco Wittmann, John Edwards and Sheldon van der Linde.
Driving for Schubert Motorsport will be works drivers Jesse Krohn, Jens Klingmann and Alexander Sims. The BMW Junior Team, consisting of Max Hesse, Neil Verhagen and Dan Harper, will also start in a BMW M4 GT3. This car will be run by BMW M Team RMG at the Nürburgring 24 Hours.
Walkenhorst Motorsport will field three BMW M4 GT3s in the PRO, Pro-Am and AM classes.
Andreas Roos, Head of BMW M Motorsport: “The Nürburgring 24 Hours is a race that sets the pulse of any motorsport enthusiast racing so we are all really looking forward to this classic. During the development of the BMW M4 GT3, we gained an awful lot of experience with the car on the Nordschleife. That will now be very valuable to us in the preparations and the race. Our BMW M Motorsport works drivers are real Nordschleife experts, as are the teams, therefore we have all the ingredients in place to go into this iconic race with a healthy portion of optimism.”
