An expansion of a programme that will be focussed on the IMSA SportsCar Championship in 2023 is on the table, outgoing BMW Motorsport boss Mike Krack has admitted.
Krack, who will take up his new position as team principal at the Aston Martin Formula 1 squad imminently, explained that a first bid for outright Le Mans honours since 1999 as part of factory World Endurance Championship campaign and the sale of customer cars are all under discussion.
He told Autosport that a full factory WEC assault in 2024 is “one of the options” as BMW evaluates increasing the scope of the programme beyond the Rahal team’s two-car IMSA assault next year.
“In the coming months we are going through the strategy: what is the next step and what happens after ’23?,” he explained.
Krack revealed that discussions with WEC promoter and Le Mans organiser the Automobile Club de l’Ouest are already underway as BMW plots the future for its LMDh prototype.
“If you are looking at a Le Mans programme, you need to…
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