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A Procar BMW M1, painted in the colour scheme used by BMW Motorsport. The BMW M1 Procar Championship, sometimes known simply as Procar, was a one-make auto racing series which featured professional drivers from the Formula One World Championship, World Sportscar Championship, European Touring Car Championship, and other international series, using identically modified BMW M1 sports cars.
The 1980 BMW M1 Procar Championship was the second and final season of the BMW M1 Procar Championship. The series once again supported Formula One at various European rounds but also branched out to hosting its own standalone events.
The 1979 BMW M1 Procar Championship was the inaugural season of the BMW M1 Procar Championship. The series ran as a support category to the European rounds of the 1979 Formula One season . [ 1 ]
For the BMW M1 Procar Championship, all cars were built to identical standards, although their origins varied. BS Fabrications constructed five cars for the BMW factory team, while cars for other competitors were constructed by Project Four Racing or the Italian constructor Osella. The racing cars, designed to meet Group 4 technical regulations ...
A BMW M1 Procar being driven by Nelson Piquet in 1980 at the Nürburgring In 1979, the head of BMW Motorsport, Jochen Neerpasch , devised a one-make championship using racing modified M1s. The series was created to aid BMW in building enough cars to enter the group 4 classification in the World Championship for Makes .
A BMW M1 Procar made some unfortunate but not too serious contact with a set of hay safety barriers over the weekend as the 2023 Goodwood Festival of Speed came to a close.
In 1979 and 1980, BMW provided a fleet of identical M1 cars for Formula One and other professional drivers to race in the BMW M1 Procar Championship, the rounds of which were held during Grand Prix race weekends, thus strengthening the marque's ties with the sport.
BMW M1 Procar Championship: Manfred Cassani 9 2 5 0 3 73 2nd: Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft: 2 0 0 0 0 9 28th European Formula Two: Polifac BMW Junior Team: 1 0 0 0 0 0 NC 1980 Deutsche Rennsport Meisterschaft: Schnitzer Motorsport: 13 4 2 2 8 145 2nd: BMW M1 Procar Championship: Project Four Racing: 9 2 1 1 4 71 3rd: World Sportscar ...