BMW Motorsport’s 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season continues to indicate sturdy qualifying efficiency, however the staff remains to be chasing its first win. On the third race of the season in Lengthy Seashore, Dries Vanthoor as soon as once more put the #24 BMW M Hybrid V8 on pole, finishing a hat trick after earlier pole positions at Daytona and Sebring. Sheldon van der Linde secured second place within the #25 automobile, giving BMW one other front-row lockout.
Regardless of main early within the race, each BMW M Crew RLL entries misplaced positions throughout pit stops below the primary yellow flag. Philipp Eng, who took over the #24 from Vanthoor, completed in third place, giving the staff its first podium of the season. Marco Wittmann, who changed van der Linde within the #25 automobile, recovered from tenth place to complete fifth.
Whereas BMW’s one-lap tempo continues to be a power, the staff has struggled to transform sturdy qualifying outcomes into wins. To this point this season, the BMWs have began from pole in each race however have but to safe a victory. The No. 7 Porsche Penske Motorsport staff, pushed by Felipe Nasr and Nick Tandy, secured their third consecutive total and Grand Touring Prototype (GTP) class victory within the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship.
Within the championship standings, BMW is presently second within the producers’ title race, simply forward of Acura, however greater than 130 factors behind Porsche. Within the drivers’ standings, Vanthoor and Eng are third with 875 factors, whereas van der Linde and Wittmann are sixth with 832 factors. Porsche’s main driver duo has already scored 1,140 factors.
Andreas Roos, Head of BMW M Motorsport, acknowledged each the progress and the challenges: “The third pole place within the third race of the season for Dries Vanthoor and the entire entrance row in BMW M Motorsport’s palms – that was unbelievable. However we misplaced beneficial positions in the course of the pit stops, which value us the prospect of profitable. Nonetheless, the primary podium of the season is a hit we will construct on.”
Within the GTD class, Turner Motorsport completed fifth with the #96 BMW M4 GT3 EVO, pushed by Robby Foley and Patrick Gallagher.
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