bmw's plans for 2001

[Jens]

Hi there!

> news that bmw is pulling out of the dtm and alms series next year.  
You call that news? Here it is a known fact that BMW lets die the ALMS
(hey, no serious development this year, not driven by an official
factory team im LeMans...).
The DTM is somewhat another story. BMW is currently not participating in
it.
Gerhard Berger has to decide, but chances are high, that they will skip
further development of their DTM Coupe. 
Stupid. BMW has a long tradition in touring cars and the DTM cars really
are relatively cheap.
(a lot bang for the buck)

> for the alms, they will run an m3 apparently, but
> not the prototype.
Oh, you mean in the small category? That is interesting, most we see
here is the larger cars. I knew there was an M3 racing (with
Hans-Joachim Stuck?). But I did not know that BMW thought of changing
anything there. So they will race the old M3 again?

> where that leaves dtm is open to question.  with audi stating that
> they will
> not run a factory effort until the a4 coupe is available, if ever,
> this
> leaves abt and m-b alone in the dtm.
Well, there is the company called Opel. AFAIK they will be back next
year again.
This year, they had some bad luck but were otherwise very competitive,
in contrast to the Abt TT-Rs. :(
Let's hope for next year.

CU
Jens