Trading Paint

If there’s every a team that is in need of some home-track luck, it’s BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team. Lime Rock Park, site of this weekend’s American Le Mans Northeast Grand Prix, is only a couple of hours from BMW North America’s corporate headquarters. Joey Hand is hoping that’s enough to turn around the team’s luck in its first year with BMW’s new M3 racer for GT2.

“I love any track that anybody calls a BMW track because we need and I personally need all the luck I can get,” said the personable Californian who will team with Bill Auberlen. “And so we’re going to be looking for some of that BMW luck there. Lime Rock is a place where I’ve had some great success and I’m going in with a teammate who I think has won every race he’s been there! Bill…I don’t know what it is about that place, but he goes good. They’ve changed it, and I haven’t raced there either since they’ve changed it. But I like that course. It’s dicey; it’s kind of like a street track where you gotta be up on the wheel the whole time. There is not a lot of time to breathe.”

Courtesy - ALMS

Courtesy - ALMS