BMW M1 Procar Historic Footage Video - Awesome
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BMW M1 Procar Historic Footage Video - Awesome From BmwBlog
"As BMW is preparing to enter the 2009 American LeMans Series with it’s race-prepped E92, I thought it fitting to go back and look at another part of BMW’s racing history. It’s a part that is little known by most BMW enthusiasts and included one of it’s lesser known, worst selling models: The BMW Procar series with racing prepped BMW M1’s. Without getting into the specifics of the BMW M1 and all of it’s interesting production history( BMW contracted Lamborghini to build the car before Lambo went belly-up and filed bankruptcy, then the car was delayed introduction before Baur was contracted to finish construction) in 1977 and 1978 BMW found themselves between a rock and a hard place with trying to meet Group 4 and 5’s homologation requirements to allow the M1 racers to compete. Due to the issues the with Lamborghini and changing requirements for Groups 4 and 5, BMW’s M1 had no series in which to compete. Jochen Neerpasch, the founder and then head of M Division, with help of Max Mosley, got smart and decided to build a home for his M1 project if they couldn’t adapt to the Group 4/5 requirements - thus the Procar Series was born for the 1979 season."
YouTube - BMW M1 Procar Historic Footage
"As BMW is preparing to enter the 2009 American LeMans Series with it’s race-prepped E92, I thought it fitting to go back and look at another part of BMW’s racing history. It’s a part that is little known by most BMW enthusiasts and included one of it’s lesser known, worst selling models: The BMW Procar series with racing prepped BMW M1’s. Without getting into the specifics of the BMW M1 and all of it’s interesting production history( BMW contracted Lamborghini to build the car before Lambo went belly-up and filed bankruptcy, then the car was delayed introduction before Baur was contracted to finish construction) in 1977 and 1978 BMW found themselves between a rock and a hard place with trying to meet Group 4 and 5’s homologation requirements to allow the M1 racers to compete. Due to the issues the with Lamborghini and changing requirements for Groups 4 and 5, BMW’s M1 had no series in which to compete. Jochen Neerpasch, the founder and then head of M Division, with help of Max Mosley, got smart and decided to build a home for his M1 project if they couldn’t adapt to the Group 4/5 requirements - thus the Procar Series was born for the 1979 season."
YouTube - BMW M1 Procar Historic Footage
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