That's what's been rumored. Yes, now it's official. BMW has an annoucement planned for 3:30 Central time regarding the news. It's thought that Rahal-Letterman Racing will be the Works team for the program and that the car could debut this year by Petit Le Mans or Laguna Seca.
Here's the speculative list as of 02/23/08 LMP1 1 Audi Sport North America Audi R10 TDI (TBA/TBA) 2 Audi Sport North America Audi R10 TDI (TBA/TBA) 06 Team Cytosport Lola B06/10 AER (Pickett/Graf/Gidley ) After LeMans break 12 Autocon Motorsports Creation CA06/H to CA07 Judd (Lewis/McMurray/Willman) 37 Intersport Racing Lola B06/10 AER E-85 (J. Field/C. Field/Berry) 88 Creation Autosportif Creation CA07 AIM (Campbell-Walter/Ortiz) Sebring/Petit/Laguna Seca 07 Peugeot 908 HDi *** V-12 diesel (Lamy/Sarrazin/Minassian) Sebring/PLM LMP2 6 Penske Motorsports Porsche RS Spyder (Maassen/Long) 7 Penske Motorsports Porsche RS Spyder (Dumas/Bernhard) 8 Mazdaspeed/B-K Motorsports Lola B07/46 MZR-R (Bach/Devlin/Matos) 9 Patrón Highcroft Racing Acura ARX- 01b V8 (Brabham/Sharp/Johansson) 15 Lowe's Fernandez Racing Acura ARX-01b V8 (Fernandez/Diaz) 16 Dyson Racing Team Porsche RS Spyder (Dyson/Smith) 19 van der Stuer Racing Radical SR9 AER P07-E (van der Stuer/Pecorari) 20 Dyson Racing Team Porsche RS Spyder (Leitzinger/M. Franchitti/Lally) 26 Andretti Green Racing Acura ARX- 01b V8 (Herta/Fittipaldi/Andretti) XX de Ferran Motorsports Acura ARX-01b V-8 (de Ferran/TBA) Before mid season 27 Lista/Horag Racing Porsche RS Spyder (Theys/Leinhard/Lammers) Sebring/Petit/Laguna Seca 32 Barazi Epsilon Zytek 07S Zytek (J.Barazi/M.Vergers/TBA) Sebring LMGT1 3 Corvette Racing Corvette C6.R E-85 (O'Connell/Magnussen/Fellows) 4 Corvette Racing Corvette C6.R E-85 (Gavin/Beretta/Papis) XX Bell Motorsports/FUX Aston Martin DBR9 (Borcheller/Ducote/TBA) LMGT2 ?1 Barwell Motorsports AM Vantage GT-2 E-85 (Drayson/Cocker/Sugden) 11 Primetime Race Group Viper Comp. Coupe (Feinberg/Hall) 21 Panoz Team PTG Panoz Esperante GTLM (Auberlen/Hand/Sutherland) 22 Panoz Team PTG Panoz Esperante GTLM (Milner Jr/TBA) 28 LGM/Pro Long Tube Headers Riley/Corvette C6 (Gigliotti/Peterson/Goossens) 44 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (Pechnik/Neiman/Law) 45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (van Overbeek/Bergmeister/Lieb) 46 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (Henzler/Pilet) 48 Corsa Motorsports Ferrari F430 GT (Jeanette/Mowlem/Kelleners) 53 Robertson Racing K/D Mk.VII Ford GT (D. Robertson/A. Robertson/D.Murry) 54 Team Trans Sport K/D Mk.VII Ford GT (E-85?) (Pappas/Basseng) 61 Risi Competizione/Krohn Racing Ferrari F430 GT (Krohn/Jonsson/Van de Poele) 62 Risi Competizione Ferrari F430 GT (Salo/Melo/TBA) 71 Tafel Racing Ferrari F430 GT (Farnbacher/Muller/Simonsen) 73 Tafel Racing Ferrari F430 GT (Tafel/Ehret/Bell) 85 Farnbacher Loles Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (Werner/TBA) XX ARC Bratislava (Konopka) Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (TBA, TBA) Sebring 99 JMB Racing Ferrari F430 GT (Aucott, Daoudi, Ferté) Petit/Laguna Seca MAYBES: P-1 10 Arena International Motorsport Zytek 07S-Zytek (TBA/TBA/TBA) - Petit/Laguna Seca GT-2 XX Vici Racing Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (TBA, TBA) Partial season 49 LGM/Pro Long Tube Headers Riley/Corvette C6 (TBA, TBA) XX Doran Kuttner Mk. VII Ford GT (TBA, TBA) Limited schedule 86 Spyker Squadron Spyker C8 Laviolette (Dumbrek, Hezemans) 87 Farnbacher Loles Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (TBA/TBA) XX ARC Bratislava (Konopka) Porsche 997 GT3 RSR (TBA, TBA) Sebring
Gianmaria Bruni will join Mika Salo and Jaime Melo in the #62 Risi Ferrari for Sebring. Also, for Sebring, the #61 Risi Ferrari will be in Krohn Racing colors with Tracy Krohn, Nic Jonsson, and Eric Van de Poele driving at Sebring.