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The Ultimate Driving Machine® is alive and well in 2025 as BMW of North America celebrates the company’s 50th anniversary. Continuing its motorsport legacy, the year begins at Daytona International Speedway and the Rolex 24 At Daytona weekend.
The BMW M Endurance Challenge for the IMSA Michelin Pilot Challenge will start the weekend off on Friday before the 63rd annual twice-around-the-clock endurance race enters into the record books.
Bobby Rahal, BMW M Team RLL team principal, and only one of two men who has won the Rolex 24 At Daytona as a driver (1981), team owner (2019, 2020), and father (Graham, 2011) will serve as the race’s Grand Marshall. Dirk Häcker, Head of Development BMW M GmbH, will be in the flag stand to wave the green flag to start the four-hour race. Every current M vehicle sold today was developed under his watch.
The 2025 BMW M Endurance Challenge, the first Michelin Pilot Challenge event of the year, will feature four BMW M4 GT4 racing cars on the entry list – three of them the new-for-2025 BMW M4 GT4 EVO – among three BMW Customer Racing teams. Turner Motorsport, the 2024 BMW Sport Trophy Team champions, will line up two of the new EVOs, the No. 95 car for Francis Selldorf and Dillon Machavern, and the No. 96 for Vincent Barletta, Matt Dalton, and Patrick Gallagher. Auto Technic Racing will enter the third EVO, the No. 27 for Roland Krainz, Austin Krainz, and Stephen McAleer. Sean McAlister and Jeff Westphal will drive the No. 39 CarBahn with Peregrine Racing BMW M4.
A 2025 BMW M5 will pace the event as the race’s official Safety Car.
During last weekend’s Roar Before the Rolex 24 test, the VP Sports Car Challenge held its first two rounds. Saturday’s 45-minute sprint saw Patrick Wilmot race the No. 12 Swish Motorsports BMW M4 GT4 to a third place finish in the GSX class. The new-for-2025 GTDX class saw Samantha Tan finish fifth in her No. 38 ST Racing BMW M4 GT3. Vincent Barletta, driving the No. 95 Turner Motorsport BMW M4 GT3, finished sixth. Sunday’s sprint was held under decidedly different conditions, the Chamber of Commerce seemingly past due on its favorable Florida weather payment. Tan and Barletta equaled their Saturday efforts in the GTDX class while Wilmot finished seventh, the top-finishing BMW in the GSX class.
BMW Group PressClub USA
