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Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing is an

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team that has participated in the

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and the

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. Headquartered in

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and

Hilliard, Ohio Hilliard is a city in Franklin County, Ohio, United States. The population was 37,114 at the 2020 census. It is a suburb of Columbus and part of Norwich Township. Hilliard is home to the Early Television Museum (the only one of its kind in Unite ...

, it is co-owned by 1986 Indianapolis 500 winner

Bobby Rahal Robert Woodward Rahal (born January 10, 1953) is an American former auto racing driver and team owner. As a driver he won three championships and 24 races in the CART open-wheel series, including the 1986 Indianapolis 500. He also won the 2004 ...

, former television

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, and businessman

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. The Team Won the

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twice in 2004 and

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with

Buddy Rice Buddy Rice (born January 31, 1976) is an American former race car driver. He is best known for winning the 2004 Indianapolis 500 while driving for Rahal Letterman Racing, and the 2009 24 Hours of Daytona for Brumos Racing. Career Early years ...

and

Takuma Sato , nicknamed "Taku", is a Japanese professional racing driver. Sato is a two time winner of the Indianapolis 500, having won the event in 2017 and 2020. He was the first Asian driver to win the Indianapolis 500, and the twentieth driver to win th ...

, The team was established in 1991 as Rahal/Hogan Racing, became Team Rahal in 1996, and was known as Rahal Letterman Racing from May 2004 until December 2010. Throughout the team's history in

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with factory partner BMW, the team has run under the name BMW Team RLL.

CART IndyCar World Series (1991–2003)

Following the 1991 CART season,

left the Galles-Kraco Racing team. Despite consistent top finishes, Rahal won only two races from 1989 to 1991. Likewise,

Danny Sullivan Daniel John Sullivan III (born March 9, 1950), better known as Danny Sullivan, is an American former racing driver. He earned 17 wins in the CART Indy Car World Series, including the 1985 Indianapolis 500. Sullivan won the 1988 CART Champions ...

left the

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team, following a dismal season with the

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engine. The two drivers essentially swapped rides. Sullivan joined Galles, and Rahal signed with

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in September 1991. By the winter of 1991, however, Patrick Racing started to collapse due to financial and legal issues regarding the

engine. Ilmor had refused to supply the Chevy/A engine to Patrick due to rumors that one of the Chevrolet Indy car engines had been provided to Alfa-Romeo. To ensure that Rahal would not be racing an uncompetitive engine in 1992, Patrick sold his assets to Rahal and his new partner

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, who was able to secure a supply of Chevy engines. A new team was formed, known as Rahal/Hogan Racing, with key personnel from Patrick Racing, such as team manager Jim McGee, moving over to the new organization. In 1992, the team won the

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title on their first try, with owner-driver Bobby Rahal driving a Lola T92/00 to 4 victories during the season. In late 1992, Rahal/Hogan absorbed the

Truesports Truesports
Truesports taurtoisemotorsports.com was an automobile racing team founded by

racing team, which Rahal had started his CART career with. The team moved its headquarters from Indianapolis to Hilliard, into the old Truesports facility. Along with the acquisition, they took over the Truesports "All-American" chassis program. Rahal began the 1993 season with an updated version of the Truesports chassis, with the intention of introducing a brand-new Rahal/Hogan chassis later in the year. A second-place finish at

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offered some promise. The success was short-lived, however, as the chassis proved uncompetitive on ovals. After Rahal failed to qualify at

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, the team switched to a more conventional

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, while team driver

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entered several more races in the R/H-001. Eventually, the team abandoned the chassis project. left, Rahal CART car In 1994, Rahal/Hogan introduced the Honda HRX Indy V-8 engine to the IndyCar World Series, having performed development testing for the engine throughout the 1993 season, but split with the manufacturer after Rahal finished a disappointing tenth place in the standings. At

, the engine proved uncompetitive, and Rahal risked missing the race for the second year in a row. He borrowed two Penske-Ilmor machines and finished third in the race. In 1996, Carl Hogan left the team and started his racing operation. As a result, the team changed its name to Team Rahal and Hogan started

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. In early 1996, Rahal's longtime friend, and avid race fan, comedian

, purchased a small share of the team. Over the next few years, the team would employ

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Max Papis Massimiliano "Max" Papis (born 3 October 1969) is an Italian professional motorsport driver who has competed in several top-level motorsports events such as Le Mans 24 Hours, Formula One and Champ Car. He has three Champ Car victories. He is the s ...

Kenny Bräck Kenny Bräck (born 21 March 1966) is a Swedish former race car driver. Until his retirement from racing, he competed in the CART, Indy Racing League and the IROC series. He won the 1998 Indy Racing League championship and the 1999 Indianapoli ...

Jimmy Vasser James Vasser Jr. (born November 20, 1965) is an American former racing driver. Vasser won the 1996 CART IndyCar championship with Chip Ganassi Racing, and scored ten victories in the series. Vasser was the last American to win the CART champio ...

and

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, getting closest to another title in 2001, when Bräck finished 2nd in points. Rahal himself retired from driving at the end of 1998.

IndyCar Series

Full-time (2004–2008)

The team changed its name again to Rahal Letterman Racing in May 2004. For the 2005 season, RLR's three drivers were

, who won the 2004 Indianapolis 500 while driving for the team,

Vítor Meira Vítor Meira (born March 27, 1977) is a Brazilian auto racing driver. He formerly competed in the IndyCar Series and has twice finished second in the Indianapolis 500. IndyCar Series 2002 After participating in an open test for Panther Racing ...

, who finished second in the

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& 2008 Indianapolis 500s, and Danica Patrick, who finished fourth in the 2005 Indianapolis 500 and had the highest finish of any female driver (3 previous) in the history of the

. Also in the 2005 Indianapolis 500, former team member

, who was replaced by Rice when he suffered a serious injury in 2003, replaced Rice when he was injured in pre-race practice. Rice was able to recover in time to race in the next IndyCar race. 2004 MIS Buddy Rice

The Rahal Letterman team had high hopes for 2006. Meira had left the team after the 2005 season to join

Panther Racing Panther Racing was an American open wheel auto racing team. It was one of the oldest continually operating teams in the IndyCar Series. Four years in a row (2008–2011), the team finished second at the Indianapolis 500. Formation The team was ...

. He was replaced by

Paul Dana Paul Dana (; April 15, 1975 – March 26, 2006) was an American racing driver in the IndyCar Series. Early life Born in St. Louis, Missouri, Dana graduated from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Before becoming a race ...

who brought an Ethanol sponsorship. The team placed three cars in the top eight for the Toyota Indy 300 during March 25, 2006, qualifying (Patrick third, Rice sixth, Dana ninth), and expected good things to come the next day for the race at Homestead-Miami Speedway. During the final practice Sunday morning, Vision Racing's Ed Carpenter crashed in turn two and the car slid down the 20-degree banking. Dana, who seemed to not receive the signal from the spotter, ran into the gearbox section of Carpenter's car, sending Dana's car flying on the backstretch. Dana died in the hospital later that afternoon, and the entire team, including Patrick and Rice, withdrew immediately. Patrick and Rice raced together at

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with the third car vacant out of respect, but effective the Bridgestone Indy Japan 300 at Motegi, Japan, Jeff Simmons was added as the team's third driver. In mid-2006 the team switched from

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chassis. Rice finished 15th in points, Patrick finished 9th, and Simmons finished 16th. Before the 2006 Monterey Sports Car Championships, Rahal Letterman Racing announced that the team would be fielding a

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-RSR in the

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in 2007. For the 2007 IndyCar Series, RLR fielded two cars, one for Simmons and one for IndyCar veteran

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. They were unable to find sponsorship to field a third car for 2004 Indianapolis 500 champion Buddy Rice, who moved to

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. However, after 11 races, released Simmons and picked up former

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driver

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, who earned a 7th-place finish at the

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. Consistent finishes gave Ryan and the team the Rookie of the Year award despite making only six starts. In the 2008 IndyCar Series season, RLR fielded just one car driven by Ryan Hunter-Reay. The team scored a win at the IndyCar Series event at

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and Hunter-Reay finished 8th in points. However at the end of the season, the team's ethanol promotion council sponsorship left and it was unable to find full-time sponsorship for 2009.

Part-time (2009–2011)

RLR did not participate full-time in the 2009 season due to a lack of sponsorship. With the sponsorship of DAFCA they participated in the 2009 Indianapolis 500, where driver

Oriol Servià Oriol Servià i Imbers (born 13 July 1974) is a Spanish racing driver who competes part-time in the IndyCar Series. He raced for Dragon Racing in the 2014–15 Formula E season, and left the series prior to the 2015 Miami ePrix to become man ...

, after starting on the ninth row, advanced to tenth place but completed only 98 laps before being forced to quit due to mechanical problems. In 2010, the team again failed to secure sponsorship for the full season. At the

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, the team arranged a one-race sponsorship entry for

Graham Rahal Graham Robert Rahal (born January 4, 1989) is an American race car driver and small business owner. He currently participates in the IndyCar Series with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, a team partially owned by his father Bobby Rahal, the winner ...

. Rahal ran in the top ten until a blocking penalty shuffled him back in the standings, and he finished 12th. In December 2010, Mike Lanigan, former co-owner of Newman-Haas-Lanigan Racing with

Carl Haas Carl A. Haas (February 26, 1929 – June 29, 2016) was an American auto racing impresario. He co-owned the Newman/Haas/Lanigan Racing team in the Champ Car and IndyCar Series with Paul Newman and Mike Lanigan. He also owned Carl A. Haas Mo ...

and actor

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, became co-owner of what was renamed Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing. The team signed

Jay Howard Jay Howard (born 16 February 1981) is a British professional race car driver who competes in the IndyCar Series and Indianapolis 500 and resides in Indianapolis, Indiana. Howard was the 2005 US Formula Ford Zetec champion (now known as the Coop ...

to drive the #88 car with Service Central sponsorship for the 2011 Indy 500.

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also joined the team at the 500. Howard finished 30th after losing a wheel following a pit stop on lap 61, while Baguette would lead 11 laps late in the race before needing to pit for fuel with 3 laps to go. He would finish 7th.

Full-time return (2012–present)

The team returned to full-time IndyCar competition for 2012, running a single Dallara-Honda for

, who achieved two podium finishes at São Paulo and Edmonton.

returned to the team in a second car for the

, where Sato came close to victory, crashing out on the final lap while attempting to pass

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for the lead. On April 30, 2014, the team made history with Engage Mobile Solutions when four members of the RLL team including driver

and three members of the pit crew wore

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to show an

pit stop from the unique perspective of each person on the racing team. After rotating through a series of drivers, including Jourdain,

, and

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returned to RLL to contest the full 2013 season. Rahal struggled during the 2013 and 2014 seasons with only four top-5 finishes. However, he would have a breakout year in 2015, snapping a six-year winless streak at Auto Club Speedway and dueling Justin Wilson to win at his home track at

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. Rahal would end the 2015 season fourth in points after consecutive bad races at Pocono and Sonoma. For 2016, the team remained a single-car team but added

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champion

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to the lineup for three races. Rahal would take a win at

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by only .008 of a second. During

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the team would watch another two wins, with Graham Rahal taking back-to-back victories at

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. In 2018, RLL would re-sign

, who had previously won the 2017 Indianapolis 500 for

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. Sato would score his first win for the team at the 2018 Grand Prix of Portland, and would win twice more in the 2019

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season, at

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and

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respectively. Sato won his second Indianapolis 500 in 2020, his first with RLL Racing. Rahal finished in 3rd position. The team also ran a third car for the first time in a race 2019 Indianapolis 500, with Jordan King finishing in 24th place. In 2021 RLL again expanded to three cars, with Graham Rahal and Takuma Sato driving two full-time entries while several drivers would drive a third car on a part-time basis. The car would be backed by

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, a supermarket chain in the Midwestern United States. Initially, the third car was only scheduled to run the

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with

Santino Ferrucci Santino Michael Ferrucci (born May 31, 1998) is an American professional racing driver. He competes in the IndyCar Series, driving the No 14 Chevrolet for A.J. Foyt Racing. He has also previously raced in the FIA Formula 2 Championship. Care ...

behind the wheel but after Ferucci's top ten finish in the 500 Hyvee gave additional sponsorship for the car to run at Detroit, Mid Ohio, and

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with Ferucci driving four races. After the Nashville round the team announced the third car would be run at the Big Machine Spiked Coolers Grand Prix and the final three races by different drivers in place of Ferrucci; Danish

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and current Alpine F1 Academy driver

Christian Lundgaard Christian Lundgaard (born 23 July 2001) is a Danish professional racing driver who is driving the No. 45 Honda for Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in the IndyCar Series. He was the 2022 IndyCar Series Rookie of the Year, and was a member of the A ...

would drive the car at the Big Machine Spiked Coolers Grand Prix on the IMS Road Course with the car backed by MiJack while

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would drive the car at Portland, Laguna Seca, and Long Beach backed by Hy-Vee. During the season Ferrucci, Askew, and Lundgaard would all test the third car in shootout style tests to determine who would get the full time drive in the third car in 2022. For 2022 Takuma Sato would depart the team. The #45 Hy-Vee car would be driven by Jack Harvey, who was signed from

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. The team announced on October 20, 2021, that Christian Lundgaard had won the opportunity to drive the #30 car full time and would sign a multi-year deal to compete with RLL full time from 2022 onward.

American Le Mans Series

2007 (Porsche)

In 2007, Rahal Letterman Racing fielded a Porsche 911 GT3 RSR for nine of the twelve races. The team's best results came as a second-place finish at Road America and a third-place finish at

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. The team finished 4th in the GT2 team championship with

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and Ralf Kelleners 6th in the driver's championship.

2009–13 (BMW)

The team returned to the series in 2009 with factory support from BMW and thus held dual nationality team licenses (

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and

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). The team fielded two M3 GT2's, the #90 driven by

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and

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and the #92 driven by Tommy Milner and Dirk Müller. After a troubled season, the #92 car finished second at the

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. The team finished 3rd in the team championship with Milner and Müller 4th in the driver's championship. In 2010, the team continued their relationship with BMW and the American Le Mans Series. Despite only winning one race at Road America, Rahal Letterman Racing won the team championship while Bill Auberlen and Tommy Milner 3rd in the driver's championship. 2011 was an even more successful year for the team. After a one-two finish at the 2011 12 Hours of Sebring the RLL Racing team would win two more races. Despite fierce competition from Corvette, Ferrari, and Porsche, Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing claimed the GT Teams and Manufacturers championships, While Joey Hand and Dirk Müller won the drivers championship. This was the second team championship for the team with the M3. In 2012, the team returned to the American Le Mans Series for their 4th year with the BMW M3. After winning their second 12 Hours of Sebring in a row, the team, lacking the speed to the brand new Porsches and Corvettes, would win only one more race at Road America. Despite their deficit in pace, the team finished the season 2nd in the championship with driver Dirk Muller finished 4th, the highest of the BMW team drivers. Further developing their relationship with

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, the Rahal Letterman Lanigan team campaigned two brand new Z4 GTE cars, replacing the BMW M3 GT2's. Despite being their first season with the car, the team claimed several GT poles, a 1–2 victory at Long Beach, and a win at Lime Rock Park. The team finished the season 2nd in the Teams' and Manufacturers' Championships behind Corvette Racing.

IMSA SportsCar Championship

For

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, the team continued with its Z4 GTE cars but under the newly formed Tudor

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(which became the

starting with the 2016 season). The team would manage four second-place finishes at

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and

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with the #55 car and

and

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for the #56 car. Dirk Müller and teammate

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would finish seventh in the GTLM Drivers' Championship with

and teammate

Andy Priaulx Andrew Graham Priaulx, MBE ( born 8 August 1974) is a British professional racing driver from Guernsey. In 2019 he raced for Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK in the FIA World Endurance Championship, and Cyan Racing Lynk & Co in the FIA World Tou ...

eighth. For

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, the team would make several changes to its lineup, this time with ALMS champion

Lucas Luhr Lucas Luhr (born 22 July 1979) is a German BMW factory racing driver, currently competing for BMW and Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing in the GTLM category of the Tudor United SportsCar Championship. Early career Born in Mülheim-Kärlich, Luhr ...

replacing Müller in the No. 24, and Auberlen being teamed with

Dirk Werner Dirk Werner (born 25 May 1981 in Hannover, Lower Saxony) is a German Porsche factory racing driver. Born in Hannover, Werner was 2007 and 2009 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series champion for Farnbacher-Loles Racing driving a Porsche 911 and fini ...

in the No. 25. Both teams would take wins during the season, with Edwards/Luhr winning at Laguna Seca, and Auberlen/Werner taking two wins at Long Beach and Austin. Auberlen/Werner would finish second in points to Porsche factory driver

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for the drivers championship. The 24 team also finished 2nd in the teams championship to the Porsche 911 team and BMW finished 2nd to Porsche in manufacturer championship. For

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, the team switched to the new

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, and the No. 24 team was assigned the Number 100 in celebration of BMW's 100th anniversary. The 25 team finished 7th in the drivers championship and the 100 team in 9th, with neither team winning. In

, the 100 team reverted to the #24, with

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replacing Luhr as Edwards' teammate, and Alexander Sims as Auberlen's new partner in the 25. The teams returned to their winning ways, with the 25 team (Auberlen/Sims) winning the

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and the

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event and finishing 2nd in the drivers championship. The 24 team (Edwards/Tomczyk) won at

Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca Laguna Seca Raceway (branded as WeatherTech Raceway Laguna Seca, and previously Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca) is a paved road racing track in central California used for both auto racing and motorcycle racing, built in 1957 near both Salinas and M ...

, but finished 7th in the championship. The four victories also elevated BMW to 2nd in the 2017 GTLM Manufacturers championship, losing to Chevrolet by just 6 points. In November 2017, Auberlen was named a BMW Brand Ambassador, and thus stepped down as a full-time driver for

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. He was replaced by

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as Sims' full-time partner in the 25 team. Edwards also had a partner change at the 24 team, with

Jesse Krohn Jesse Kurki-Suonio (born 3 September 1990), more commonly known as Jesse Krohn, is a Finnish professional racing driver, and BMW Motorsport works driver. He is notable for winning the Finnish, Northern European Zone (NEZ) and Estonian Formula Re ...

replacing Tomczyk. RLL also updated to the new

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. The 25 team (Sims/De Phillippi) won at

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and Laguna Seca and finished 6th in the 2018 drivers championship, while the 24 team (Edwards/Krohn) finished the season 8th with no race victories. For

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, the 24 driver team will remain intact, but

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was announced to replace Sims as De Phillippi's full-season partner in the 25 team. However, due to delays with his U.S. Visa, Blomqvist had to miss the 2019 24 Hours of Daytona. He was replaced at Daytona by

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, who, along with co-drivers De Phillippi,

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and

Philipp Eng Philipp Eng (born 28 February 1990 in Salzburg) is an Austrian professional racing driver, and BMW Motorsport works driver. Career Karting Eng started karting in 2003, by competing in Intercontinental A Junior karts, competing in the Andrea Mar ...

, won the race in the GTLM class. However, the cars scored only three additional podiums combined, so they ranked 6th and 7th in the GTLM drivers standings. In 2020, the #24 car won the 24 Hours of Daytona and got five additional points, ending second in points. Meanwhile, the #25 car won the 6 Hours of Atlanta plus three more podiums, placing fourth in points. BMW reduced its budget for the 2021 season, so RLL only entered the four endurance races. In a depleted GTLM field, they scored six pofiums combined but no wins. IMSA dropped the GTLM class before the 2022 season. RLL joined the new GTD Pro class with the new BMW M4 GT3. The #25 runs full-time, whereas the #24 is an endurance-only entry. The team was announced to join the IMSA GTP class in 2023 with two

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-spec BMW.

Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy

On 28 November 2017, it was announced that the team was to be the first to confirm entry to the I-PACE eTROPHY. The team confirmed that they will run two cars in the series.

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and

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are part of the current line-up.

CART/Champ Car drivers

IndyCar drivers

*IndyCar driver

was fatally injured in final practice for the March 26, 2006

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at Homestead-Miami Speedway, and never officially recorded a start in the IndyCar Series with the team. After sitting out the

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, Jeff Simmons was named to drive the Ethanol #17 entry for the balance of the 2006 season. Midway through the 2007 season, Simmons was released and replaced with

Racing results

CART FedEx Championship Series results

(

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) (results in bold indicate pole position) (results in ''italics'' indicate fastest lap) * The

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was canceled after qualifying due to excessive

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s on the drivers.

was given one bonus point for qualifying on pole.

IndyCar Series results

(

) * Season still in progress #

was killed during the final practice session of the

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. # Non-points-paying, exhibition race. # The final race at Las Vegas was canceled due to Dan Wheldon's death. # Run in conjunction with Scuderia Corsa.

IndyCar wins

Complete Global Rallycross Championship results

(

)

Supercar

Complete Jaguar I-Pace eTrophy results

(

) ;Notes: * – Season still in progress.

References

External links

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