BMW says getting both its LMDh cars to the finish in Rolex24 is 'almost like a win' for the marque. IMSA
Rahal called the opening race of the 2023 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship “a good start for us” despite the two BMW M Team RLL entries in the GTP class suffering significant delays on the way to sixth and ninth positions.
Maurizio Leschiutta, project manager on the M Hybrid V8 at BMW M Motorsport, added that he was “very happy” with the Daytona performance given the short timeline on a programme only signed off in June 2021. “We know now what our weaknesses are and will be working on them before the Sebring 12 Hours [the next round of the IMSA series in March].”
“We changed the entire hybrid system because it wouldn’t have been efficient to do a piece-by-piece analysis,” he explained. “We just had to get the car back on track as soon as possible.” It needed a hard reset and then a change of brakes at the cost of 25 minutes, which was linked to problems with the brake-by-wire controls to the rear axle. That left it 15 laps behind the race winner in sixth position.
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