Tag: V12

With all the great successes BMW has had in motorsport, the 24 hours of LeMans was a race the company had never won.  The team started design work on the V12 LMR in 1997  and the car was quite modern for its era.  The chassis was carbon fibre and the monocoque was an aluminum honeycomb […] More »

The BMW Motorsports division and Williams Grand Prix Engineering came together to build a car for Le Mans.  They named it the BMW V12 Le Mans, and the car itself was an open top two-seater with a 550 HP V12 engine. Designed to be raced in class 1, the car adhered to the minimum weight restriction of […] More »