BMW Motorsport News – issue 14/2019

6.5.2019. FIST Team AAI celebrates two victories in the China GT Championship – Successful debut for Beitske Visser in the W Series.

Content

  • China GT Championship: FIST-Team AAI dominates in Zhejiang.
  • W Series: Visser missed the season opener just under the Podium.
  • Italian GT Championship: podium finishes for the BMW M4 GT4.
  • GT4 European Series: a podium success for the BMW M4 GT4.
  • IMPC: a Difficult race weekend at Mid-Ohio.

China GT Championship: FIST-Team AAI dominates in Zhejiang.

No way around it this weekend in the China GT Championship at the FIST Team AAI. With two Wins in the GT3 class on Friday and Saturday in Zhejiang (CHN) has expanded the team, their record of success from the kick-off weekend. At the wheel of the BMW M6 GT3 with the starting number 90 BMW factory driver Nick Yelloly (GBR) and Lam Yu (CHN) alternated. The Duo is supplied in two runs, exciting duels with the competition, but retained each Time just under the upper hand and won two Times. With now a total of three Wins and a further podium finish for Yelloly and AAI are in the driver and team standings with a clear cap at the top. Another Podium in the GT4 is to celebrate the class. The Team Master’s Champ, was this weekend in his series debut, showed a strong Performance and drove in the first run. In the second race Wang Hao (CHN) finished sixth in the BMW M4 GT4 the fifth rank. The third race weekend of the season is from 28. up to 30. June, in Shanghai (CHN) hero.

W Series: Visser missed the season opener just under the Podium.

In the framework programme of the DTM celebrated this weekend, the W Series, the first formula series for women, in Hockenheim (GER). : BMW driver Beitske Visser (NED). Visser, since 2017, the BMW Motorsport Junior programs, and since this season’s official replacement – and test-driver in the FIG FIA Formula E Championship, which secured in March in the decisive Shootout in Almería (ESP) of a total of 18 cockpit. In the first race of the season, you struggled right off the bat to the front seats. At the end of the 18-lap race, Visser missed on rank four, just shy of the Podium. In less than two weeks, the 24-Year-old has again the opportunity to drive to victory, when in Zolder (BEL) in the second race of the new series takes place.

Italian GT Championship: podium finishes for the BMW M4 GT4.

For the BMW Team Italia in the second round of the Italian GT Championship on the weekend in Vallelunga, to the North of Rome (ITA). In the #15 BMW M6 GT3, BMW Motorsport Junior Erik Johansson (SWE) and Stefano Comandini (ITA) went to the Start. The Duo finished the first race on Saturday in fifth place in the GT3 Pro class. On Sunday for Johansson/Comandini place eight to book. The #207 BMW M4 GT4 BMW Team Italia drove in both races on the Podium of the GT4 class. The Trio of Giuseppe Fascicolo, Francesco Guerra, and Andrea Fontana (all ITA), reached on Saturday in third place and on Sunday.

GT4 European Series: a podium success for the BMW M4 GT4.

The RN Vision STS Team is successful on the second race weekend of the GT4 European Series in Brands Hatch (GBR) made it onto the podium in the Pro-Am class. At the wheel of the #111 BMW M4 GT4 Marius train (GER) and Gabriele Piana (ITA) came in the first race after 32 laps at the second rank. The Best-placed BMW driver in the Silver Cup, Simon Knap (NED), and Alec Udell (USA) in the #25 BMW M4 GT4 by Team MDM Motorsport on rank six. The seed placement is achieved Euan McKay (GBR) and Ricardo van der ende (NED), the go for Ekris Motorsport, the Start in the second race of the weekend. Levent Kocabiyik and Ibrahim Okyay (both TUR) occupied in the Pro-Am category in the final run of the event for the team Borusan Otomotiv Motorsport is also the sixth Position.

IMPC: a Difficult race weekend at Mid-Ohio.

Changing weather conditions brought the BMW team at the third race weekend in the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge, a difficult day on the “Mid-Ohio Sports Car Course” (USA). James Clay, and Devin Jones (both USA) in your #82 BMW M4 GT4 from Bimmer world Racing ninth in the best-placed BMW driver. Bill Auberlen (USA), its 415. Start in a BMW race car completed, and Robby Foley (USA) finished in the #96 BMW M4 GT4 from Turner Motorsport finished in eleventh place. Greg Liefooghe and Henry Schmitt (both of US) drove the BMW M4 GT4 with the number 88 by Stephen Cameron Racing is on place 13. The fourth race of the season will be held on 30. June in Watkins Glen, USA), Glen (.

FIST Team AAI BMW M6 GT3 (photo: BMW AG)

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