Flasch back
We are looking at WEC and Le Mans, but the only thing we want to confirm today is the IMSA series
BMW has added its name to a growing list of manufacturers that will compete in the LMDh category in North America. The German marque will compete as a two-car factory team in IMSA’s WeatherTech Sportscar Championship in 2023, starting at the Daytona 24 hours.
It will join already confirmed LMDh programmes from Acura, Porsche and Audi, with General Motors and others, including Lamborghini and Lexus, currently waiting in the wings.
The announcement came in unconventional form, with Markus Flasch, the CEO of BMW M posting a picture of Jenny Holzer’s V12 LMR art car on stage in a theatre on his Instagram page, along with the headline, ‘We are back, Daytona 2023.’ More details emerged in the press release that came out the following day, namely that this is a North American programme in the first instance.
‘It is a BMW M Motorsport programme, and we forwarded to get the clearance from the board,’ says Flasch. ‘The markets, not
