TotalMotorSport All the latest Motorsport news, race reports and photographs from around the world. Alms, Touring Cars, Formula One & Le Mans 24 Hours

<body> <Table Width="550" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" cellpadding="0"><TR><TD Width="35"><IMG SRC="//www.totalmotorsport.com/images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="35" HEIGHT="1"></td><td> <CENTER><Table border="0" width="100%"> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="5">AMERICAN LE MANS SERIES</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">05/12/2001</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">BMW under pressure</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">ACO take the hardline</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><img border="1" src="Storage/bmwm3-laguna.jpg"></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="1">  </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">BMW may withdraw from the ALMS and Le Mans next year following the announcement of planned changes to the regulations to help slow down the impressive GT car.<BR> <BR> The organisers are becoming increasingly frustrated with the lack of progress with the road going M3GTR and will be demanding further proof that the cars are being delivered to the customers as promised in February 2002. The BMW will continue to race in the ALMS but the ACO will monitor the situation and are ready to penalise the race car should any of the criteria fail to be met.<BR> <BR> This new hard line approach is not just aimed at BMW, any manufacturer failing to meet the road going production build will suffer the same penalties. The ACO have clearly stated that each manufacture must produce an average of one road going car per week, have the car on sale through nationwide dealer network in at least two countries. The engine used must be based on a production engine and no less than 1000 must have been made.<BR> <BR> Failing to comply with these requirements could mean a 20% reduction in the air restrictor and 100kg of ballast, enough to put anyone off.<BR> </FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE><BR> </CENTER> <BR><CENTER><font size="1" color="#808080" face="Tahoma">Copyright ©2000-©2023 TotalMotorSport</font></CENTER> </td> </tr> </table> </body>