Norisring will no longer be a bogey track for BMW in the DTM following the introduction of the new M4 GT3 this year, according to the marque's development driver.
The tight and twisty confines of the Nuremberg street circuit exposed the weaknesses of the BMW M6 GT3 last year, with the best of the Bavarian brand’s four factory-supported cars placing a distant 15th out of 19 entries in second qualifying.Marco WittmannMuch of the development of the new M4 GT3, which entered service at the start of 2022, was focused on making it as versatile as possible to tackle a wide number of GT3 championships around the world.
"Of course, the BMW is still not as agile around a first-gear corner as a Porsche, because physically you can't do that. But fortunately we have made a real quantum leap. "The biggest weakness [of the M6] was the slower the speed and the tighter the corner, the harder we found it to rotate the car,” explained Klingmann. “The car always seemed very sluggish, even though it is the same size as the M4. On top of that, we had very high tyre wear on the rear axle.
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