BMW Team RLL scored their first win with the new BMW M8 GTE race car. Alexander Sims and Connor De Phillippi have claimed a breakthrough first victory for the M8 GTE in Sunday’s Michelin GT Challenge at Virginia International Raceway.
Sims took the No. 25 BMW Team RLL entry to a 1.323-second win over the No. 3 Corvette C7.R of Jan Magnussen.
The win came after a clutch-related fire in warmup and just two weeks after narrowly missing out on the GT Le Mans class victory at Road America due to running out of fuel.
Team RLL teammates Jesse Krohn and John Edwards made it a double podium for BMW Motorsport, coming in third.
Magnussen and Garcia now lead the championship following clutch issues for points leaders Richard Westbrook and Ryan Briscoe who were forced to retire.
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