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Zanardi completes first test with BMW Team RLL at the Daytona International Speedway

24 Hours of Daytona: Alessandro Zanardi completes first test with BMW Team RLL at the Daytona International Speedway.

Preparations for Alessandro Zanardi’s (ITA) guest appearance at the 24-hour race at Daytona (USA) have entered the critical phase. On Saturday, the BMW works driver completed the first test with BMW Team RLL at the Daytona International Speedway in the US state of Florida. Zanardi will be competing in the …

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“A bit like Jimi Hendrix”: virtuoso performance from Zanardi with the BMW M8 GTE.

“A bit like Jimi Hendrix”: virtuoso performance from Zanardi with the BMW M8 GTE.

The BMW M Motorsport engineers compare him to a drummer, while Alessandro Zanardi (ITA) himself says: “I feel a bit like Jimi Hendrix.” The manner in which the BMW works driver controls the BMW M8 GTE that he will drive during the 24 Hours of Daytona (USA) in January is …

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Alessandro Zanardi completes first test with BMW Team RLL at Daytona

Preparations for Alessandro Zanardi’s (ITA) guest appearance at the 24-hour race at Daytona (USA) have entered the critical phase. On Saturday, the BMW works driver completed the first test with BMW Team RLL at the Daytona International Speedway in the US state of Florida. Zanardi will be competing in the …

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[Video] BMW M8 Test Drive in Portugal

[Video] BMW M8 Test Drive in Portugal

From the race track to the road: the new BMW M8 Coupe (fuel consumption combined: 10.8 – 10.7 l/100 km [26.2 – 26.4 mpg imp]; CO2 emissions combined: 246 – 243 g/km) is rounding the final corner en route to series production. BMWM GmbH is putting an early prototype of …

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Difficult challenge for BMW M Motorsport in the rain-affected WEC round at Shanghai

Difficult challenge for BMW M Motorsport in the rain-affected WEC round at Shanghai

BMW Team MTEK started the China round of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) from the front row of the grid, but multiple red-flags and wet conditions made the ‘6 Hours of Shanghai’ a challenge, and the team had to settle for sixth and ninth in the LM GTE Pro …

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