It's been 50 years since BMW's Motorsport division was formed. To mark the occasion, we look back at some of the best cars and engines produced by the German manufacturer:
Some say you should be judged by how you deal with failure. If that’s the case then BMW’s response to being thrashed in the 1972 European Touring Car Championship has to be regarded as one of the finest moments in motorsport history.
The competitiveness of the ETC fell away during the rest of the decade, apart from the arrival of the rapid but unreliable Broadspeed Jaguar XJ12C that should have been more successful, and BMW drivers would take every crown from 1975 to 1983. Those successes were largely left to privateer teams, but BMW Motorsport’s wider presence increased with the Junior programme, the fire-breathing Group 5 320i Turbo and then the M1.
The 3.0 CSL established BMW as a motorsport powerhouse in 1973 as it won the European Touring Car Championship and Spa 24 HoursIn motorsport, BMW’s attention turned to F1 in the early 1980s. It had scored European F2 success throughout the 1970s, usually in March chassis, and had experience with turbocharging in tin-tops.
A switch to a digital electronic control system and special fuel to help cure detonation problems were the final pieces of the puzzle in 1983. Piquet famously snatched the title from Renault’s Alain Prost at the South African finale in Gordon Murray’s BT52. It was the first F1 championship won by turbo power.
BMW remained at the forefront during the big-budget Super Touring era of the 1990s, with two and four-door versions of the E36 3 Series, which also sprouted wings after Alfa Romeo upped the aerodynamic ante in 1994. Its last major success was Johnny Cecotto’s 1998 Super Tourenwagen Cup title with Schnitzer, by which time BMW had linked up with Williams and was eyeing F1, as well as Le Mans success.
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