Bimmerworld Racing is a sports car racing team and supplier of racing, performance, and replacement parts based in
Dublin
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,
Virginia
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, USA. The company focuses on the
BMW brand of automobiles with a strong emphasis on
road racing
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. The team first began racing professionally in the sprint-format
SCCA World Challenge
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series before switching to the endurance-based
IMSA/Grand-Am Sports Car Challenge. The team has also diversified into other forms of motorsport including
NASA
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NASA was established in 1958, succeeding t ...
,
BMW CCA Club Racing,
SCCA
The Sports Car Club of America (SCCA) is a non-profit American automobile club and sanctioning body supporting road racing, rallying, and autocross in the United States. Formed in 1944, it runs many programs for both amateur and professional r ...
,
SpecE30, The One Lap of America,
Pikes Peak International Hill Climb,
ChampCar,
VLN, and PowerWheels Attack. The team and parts company is independently owned by founder James Clay.
As a BMW specialist the team's race cars consist of BMW automobiles. Some of the cars the team has used over the years include:
E36 325i/328i,
E36 M3,
E46 325i, E46 330i,
E46 M3
The BMW M3 is a high-performance version of the BMW 3 Series, developed by BMW's in-house motorsport division, BMW M, BMW M GmbH. M3 models have been produced for every generation of 3 Series since the E30 M3 was introduced in 1986.
The initial ...
,
E90 325i/328i,
E92 335i,
E92 M3,
F30 328i,
F22 M235i Racing, and
F82 M4 GT4. The team won the
2018 Street Tuner Drivers Championship with Devin Jones and Nick Galante driving a F30 328i. In 2019 the team runs two pro-racing efforts: a pair of M4 GT4 cars for the
IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge
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and two M240i Racing models in the
Blancpain World Challenge Touring Car series. Drivers are James Clay, Devin Jones, Cameron Evans, Chandler Hull, Aurora Straus, Kaz Grala, Seth Thomas, and Ari Balogh. The cars are sponsored by
OPTIMA Batteries,
Veristor,
CoPart
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,
Red Line Oil
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History
Red Line Synthetic Oil Corpora ...
, Eibach Springs, Performance Friction Brakes, MagnaFlow Exhaust, and BMW of North America. The team also runs the livery of The Race to End Alzheimer's, a charity raising money and awareness for
Alzheimer's disease
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. In addition to their pro racing efforts, the team builds BMWs race cars for customers on a regular basis.
References
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External links
Bimmerworld websiteteam website
American auto racing teams