{"id":494697,"date":"2015-08-12T12:03:33","date_gmt":"2015-08-12T19:03:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/\/?p=15256"},"modified":"2024-02-26T00:50:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-26T00:50:21","slug":"bmw-brings-three-classics-to-monterey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/bmw-brings-three-classics-to-monterey\/","title":{"rendered":"Monterey Car Week (2015) &#8211; BMW Brings Three Classics to Monterey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BMW has revealed that it will be bringing a trio of historic BMW racecars to this weekend\u2019s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The trio will be the #25 BMW 3.0 CSL (above), the BMW M1 IMSA Group 4 endurance racer and the BMW M5 IMSA Bridgestone Supercar Championship 1994-\u201995 winner. The CSL, one of five built for the company\u2019s IMSA Camel GT campaigns of 1975 and \u201976, won the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1975, so is celebrating the 40<sup>th<\/sup> anniversary of that feat. It will be driven in run Group 4A by BMW of North America President and CEO Ludwig Willisch.<\/p>\n<p>The M1 was originally raced by David Hobbs, Marc Surer and Dieter Quester, and will be driven at Laguna by <em>Time<\/em> magazine\u2019s auto correspondent Jason Harper, while the M5, winner of the Supercar Championship in 1994 and \u201995, will be driven by David Donohue, who claimed his first professional championship with the car in \u201994.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BMW has revealed that it will be bringing a trio of historic BMW racecars to this weekend\u2019s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. The trio will be the #25 BMW 3.0 CSL (above), the BMW M1 IMSA Group 4 endurance racer and the BMW M5 IMSA Bridgestone Supercar Championship 1994-\u201995 winner. The CSL, one of five built for the company\u2019s IMSA Camel GT campaigns of 1975 and \u201976, won the 12 Hours of Sebring in 1975, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":531640,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[226,260,16932],"tags":[228,432,16936,441],"class_list":["post-494697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bmw","category-car-events","category-festivals-shows","tag-bmw","tag-events","tag-festivals-shows","tag-monterey-car-week"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Monterey Car Week (2015) - BMW Brings Three Classics to Monterey<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/bmw-brings-three-classics-to-monterey\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Monterey Car Week (2015) - BMW Brings Three Classics to Monterey\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"BMW has revealed that it will be bringing a trio of historic BMW racecars to this weekend\u2019s Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca. 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