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Originally Posted by Mantii
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Originally Posted by lan4
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Originally Posted by Matski
Outside of the North American championship in 2016 BMW M6's got onto the podium about 35 times, in around 10 championships, of which about 12 of those were wins.
That's the point of having a customer racing programme.
It's not the best GT car out there, but it's performance in the IWSC is not representative of the cars potential.
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So noted, but the North American market is HUGE for BMW. Wins and podiums in Europe is for the most part meaningless in NA. They need to find a way to win in NA. Either new/different car, new or additional customer team, BOP adjustments or all of the above. For now they are getting embarrassed by the competition. |
Or they may pull out altogether and just concentrate on the classes they have appropriate cars for, such as DTM, m235R, now the M4 GT4, etc and leave GT3 and GTE to others. |
This cannot happen. IMSA is positioning GTD as the universal GT3 class for all manufacturers and GTLM is your Le Mans equivalent. Merc, Lamborghini, Lexus and Nissan just entered the mix and the goal is for this circuit to compete with NASCAR for fans and television rights. If you pull out of this you may as well not race in North America and give up.