BMW Motorsport names Joey Hand to drive at the 24 Heures Du Mans

BMW Motorsport announced today that Joey Hand will join teammates Dirk Müller and Andy Priaulx to bulldoze the No. 56 BMW M3 GT at this year'due south 24 Heures du Mans endurance race on June 11-12, round 3 of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup (ILMC). The same trio driving the BMW Team RLL M3 GT had the perfect start to the ILMC flavor and American Le Mans Serial (ALMS) season with the GT class win at the 12 Hours of Sebring on March nineteen.

The Le Mans race will be Hand'due south first outing on European soil for BMW Motorsport. His outright victory at the 24-hour race in Daytona driving the Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates BMW Powered Daytona Prototype at the offset of the yr and success at the 12-hour race in Sebring were timely reminders of the American's talent alee of the team selection for Le Mans.

While BMW Squad RLL was responsible for the two BMW M3 GT cars at the curtain-raiser to the season, BMW Team Schnitzer will take over for the next ILMC races in Europe and the finale in China. The driver line-up is now official for nigh of the ILMC season.

Augusto Farfus (BR) and Jörg Müller (DE) will alternate backside the bicycle of the No. 55 BMW M3 GT. They volition exist joined for the 24-60 minutes race in Le Mans (FR) by Dirk Werner (DE), the regular BMW Team RLL driver in ALMS. Müller and Werner gave BMW the best possible cease to the 2010 ILMC season with a win in the GT course in Zhuhai (CN).

In the 2nd BMW M3 GT (No. 56), three-fourth dimension world touring machine champion Andy Priaulx (GB) volition contest all the races in the ILMC. He will be supported by Uwe Alzen (DE) in Spa-Francorchamps (Exist) and will share the car with Pedro Lamy (PT) in Imola (Information technology).

BMW Squad RLL volition contest Round 2 of the 2011 ALMS season at Long Beach on April 16.

[Source: BMW ]

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