“It's been a challenging year,” said Bobby Rahal, Team Principal. “However, if you look back at how we did at Long Beach last year – being on pole with Bill, with the car in its third race at that stage, the race was very positive for us.  I would like to think that we can repeat that performance this year.

BMW has revealed the driver and team allocations for its 21-driver Nürburgring 24 Hours effort, which includes entries from BMW Team Schnitzer, ROWE Racing and Schubert Motorsport.

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BMW Team RLL drivers for the 2017 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship features some returning drivers and some new competitors. 

“I had heard from everybody telling me that it has a lot of downforce, but you really have to drive it to believe it,” said Edwards. “It is one thing to see on the data that this or that corner can be done flat every lap, but when you really go out and go through these corners it is amazing to see how easy it is to do these corners flat because of the downforce level.”

The 2017 WeatherTech Championship season opens with the 55th Rolex 24 At Daytona on the weekend of January 26-29 at Daytona International Speedway, followed by the 65th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring Fueled by Fresh From Florida at Sebring International Raceway on March 15-18.