By the time the first-generation M6 made its debut in 1983, BMW had already been racing the 6 Series for the three years. The company’s vehicle of choice for the race track was the 635 CSi, which spent more than a decade on the track between 1980 and 1992. The coupe scored 26 overall wins and 7 class victories in more than 600 races that included many endurance events. Although the 6 Series nameplate returned for the 2006 model year with V-10 and V-8 engines, the new coupe didn’t follow in the footsteps of its predecessor and never made it onto the track on official terms. That will change in 2015, when BMW rolls out a GT3-spec version of the M6 for GT Endurance and Sprint racing.
Based on the road-going model but equipped with an aerodynamic body kit and race-bred internals, the M6 GT3 comes in to replace the venerable Z4 GT3. The latter has been serving BMW factory teams and privateers with great success since 2010, but Munich is ready to add a new chapter to its motorsport saga. Most details are still under wraps as of 10/07/2014, but BMW has released a couple of renderings that preview its next-gen GT3 racer. Read on to have a closer look at the track-prepped M6.
Updated 03/18/20015: BMW dropped a series of new images for the upcoming M6 GT3 taken during an extensive testing program in Monteblanco (ES) and Portimão (PT). The car was tested by Lucas Luhr (DE), Jörg Müller (DE), Jens Klingmann (DE), Dominik Baumann (AT) and Maxime Martin (BE).
Click past the jump to read more about the 2016 BMW M6 GT3.
BMW M6 GT3 originally appeared on topspeed.com on Wednesday, 18 March 2015 10:30 EST.
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