BMW M Hybrid V8 Wins 1-2 Finish At Road America

The first IMSA victory for the BMW M Hybrid V8 this season was an extra special one.

The current top class of endurance racing consists of the FIA World Endurance Championship, as well as the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, which brings the world’s greatest racing hypercars to tracks across the States. This past weekend, the championship came to Wisconsin’s Road America, where the BMW M Team RLL celebrated its first victory of the season with the BMW M Hybrid V8 hypercar. However, the team didn’t just win the race, but secured an incredible 1-2 victory.

The number 24 car, with Philipp Eng and Dries Vanthoor behind the wheel, finished the 2 hour, 40 minute race in first place, while the number 25 car, piloted by Sheldon van der Linde and Marco Wittmann, finished in second. The victory, a major milestone for the team this season, comes after four pole positions and two previous podium finishes, and it was complemented by the #1 BMW M4 GT3 EVO, driven by Neil Verhagen and Madison Snow, emerging victorious in the GTD Pro class.

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Both BMW M Hybrid V8s delivered solid qualifying times, starting the race second and third on the grid, and despite challenges early in the race, a solid pit strategy and precise driving allowed the team to not only secure the victory, but dominate the race with its one-two finish. The first victory of the season for the BMW M Hybrid V8 was not only hard-earned but impossible to ignore.

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