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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.
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.
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]
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. [1]
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. Watch a BMW M1 Procar ...
In the single-make BMW M1 Procar Championship, driving for the British Formula Two team Project Four Racing (led by Ron Dennis) when not in a factory entry, Lauda won three races for P4 plus the series. Decades later, Lauda won a BMW Procar exhibition race event before the 2008 German Grand Prix.
BMW M1 Procar Championship. Project Four Racing was a British Formula Two and Formula Three team. The team was founded in 1976 by former Brabham mechanic Ron Dennis. At the end of 1980, the team merged with the McLaren Formula One team. The team name lived on in the designation of the McLaren F1 race cars from 1981 to the 2016 season, all ...
The M1, however, was more of a racecar in domestic trim than an everyday driver. The direction of the M cars changed with the 1979 release of the M535i, which was a high performance version of BMW's popular 5 Series mid-size sedan. In 1993, BMW Motorsport GmbH changed their name to BMW M GmbH.