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First Laguna Seca (USA), next the Nürburgring-Nordschleife (GER) – and then the virtual Formula E test round: BMW works drivers have three big sim racing events ahead of them over the coming days. During Thursday night into Friday, several BMW drivers will contest the second round of the IMSA iRacing Pro Series. That will be followed on Saturday by the third round of the Digital Nürburgring Endurance Series powered by VCO, which is also contested by a large BMW squad. After that, the ABB FIA Formula E Championship launches its virtual season with a test round on the Monaco (MON) track. All the races will be streamed live online on various channels, including those of BMW Motorsport.
IMSA iRacing Pro Series – round 2, Laguna Seca.
The IMSA iRacing Pro Series is the virtual version of the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The first sim race of the series, the ‘IMSA Sebring SuperSaturday’ race at the end of March, finished with a one-two-three result for the MOTUL BMW M8 GTE. On the digital version of the ‘Sebring International Raceway’ (USA), Bruno Spengler (CAN) won, followed by his BMW works driver colleagues Nick Catsburg (NED) and Jesse Krohn (FIN). These three drivers, along with a few other BMW works drivers, will take to the track in the MOTUL BMW M8 GTE again for the second round, which gets underway at 18:00 Eastern Time (midnight CEST). This time, drivers will take on the digital version of the Californian ‘Laguna Seca Raceway’ (USA).
Like in the real-life IMSA series, BMW Team RLL drivers are also competing in the sim version. Spengler has joined forces with Connor De Phillippi and Colton Herta (both USA) for BMW IMSA Team Red. Krohn and John Edwards (USA) are representing BMW IMSA Team Black, together with Catsburg. BMW Team RLL engineers are also involved in the preparatory discussions for the sim race.
Philipp Eng (AUT) will compete in Team Austria colours. Several customer teams will also be representing BMW at the virtual Laguna Seca. The Turner Motorsport team will field IMSA regular driver Robby Foley (USA). One of the AIM Vasser Sullivan team’s three BMWs will be driven by New Zealand’s Shane van Gisbergen, one of the stars of the Australian Supercars Championship. No fewer than 20 BMW drivers overall have registered in the field of 50 entrants for the second round of the IMSA iRacing Pro Series.
Links to the live streams of the race:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/iracing/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/UnitedSportsCar
Twitch: https://www.twitch.tv/iracing
Digital Nürburgring Endurance Series powered by VCO – round 3.
Eng, Spengler and Krohn go straight into the third round of the Digital Nürburgring Endurance Series powered by VCO at the Nürburgring-Nordschleife (GER) on Saturday. In round two, two weeks ago, Eng and the BS+COMPETITION team secured third place on the podium. This Saturday sees Eng share the wheel of the #189 BMW Z4 GT3 with his team-mates Alexander Voß and Laurin Heinrich (both GER) once again. Spengler will again compete for BMW Bank. The other drivers of the distinctive black #107 BMW Z4 GT3 are Nils Koch and Kay Kaschube (both GER). Krohn will be representing the VRS Coanda Simsport team again.
It goes without saying that BMW Team Green Hell, with the two BMW works drivers Martin Tomczyk and Jens Klingmann (both GER), will not be missing from the starting grid of the third race. BMW Junior Team, made up of Max Hesse (GER), Neil Verhagen (USA) and Dan Harper (GBR), will also be taking part again and gaining more experience of sim racing and the characteristics of the Nürburgring-Nordschleife. BMW M Motorsport customer racing team Walkenhorst Motorsport will field two cars. A total of eight BMW Z4 GT3 will compete.
