BMW Team PTG
BMW has not done a full season in the American Le Mans Series since 2001 and will have a two-car effort this year. The team has been very successful and was a GT team champion in 1999. The new GT2S class for sedans will be the first year that there are entries in the highly competitive GT2 class for 2006. Bill Auberien, Joey Hand, Martin Jensen, Justin Marks, and Bryan Sellers will pilot the BMW M3’s in the series this year.
BMW Team PTG M3s Finish Sixth and Ninth at Petit Le Mans
Bill Auberlen, Joey Hand and Boris Said, driving the No. 21 BMW Team PTG M3, had to settle for a sixth place GT2 finish in today’s Petit Le Mans after running third in the closing laps of the race. The trio completed 344 laps of the 2.54-mile, 12-turn Road Atlanta circuit in the 1000-mile race, finishing 12 laps behind the winning Porsche. The No. 22 BMW Team PTG M3 of Justin Marks, Bryan Sellers and Ian James finished ninth, completing 304 laps after electrical problems late in the third hour cost the team a better finish.
BMW Team PTG M3s Finish 2nd and 6th in Generac 500 at Road America
Bill Auberlen and Joey Hand co-drove the No. 21 BMW Team PTG M3 to a season’s best second place in the GT2 class of the American Le Mans Series’ Generac 500 today at Road America. The duo completed 71 laps of the venerable 4.048-mile Road America circuit, finishing only 4.237 seconds behind the class-winning Porsche. Auberlen and Hand both led during the two-hour-and-forty-five minute contest – Hand relinquishing the lead only three laps from the end after a fierce battle with winner Jorg Bergmeister.
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BMW Team PTG M3s Qualify 8th and 9th for Lone Star Grand Prix
Today’s two 50-minute practice sessions did not prove to be enough time for BMW Team PTG to come to grips with the temporary Houston circuit today as the team qualified its two M3s eighth and ninth in the GT2 field for tomorrow’s American Le Mans Series Lone Star Grand Prix.
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