Farus is my pick along with Prilux or either of the Mullers to join them.

Graham I see at Sebring and Petit only as those races don’t clash with his Indy Car driving.

My RLR line up for Serbing -

Auberlen/Hand/Rahal

Muller/Muller/Priaulx

Why Priaulx, the person running BMW NA is the the former manager for Priaulx….

Fafus might get a seat as well. You had to have Americans in the car but I don’t think its required if they aren’t quick enough.

For the sprint races -

Priaulx/Muller (Jorg) or Muller (Jorg)/Farus

Auberlen/Hand or Auberlen/Priaulx Hand/Farus

We’ll see

Now for Midwest Motorsports

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Dirk Werner is junior Porsche factory driver (tester). He tests ALL 911 GT3 RSR GT2s in Germany before they’re shipped to teams. FBL has a hold on him.

Especially with Pratt and Milner coming in the fray BMW better make sure Auberlen and Hand are what they want. GT2 will be the best GT racing anywhere.

Well, unless Aston Martin and Maserati decide to come back in GT1 here with Factory efforts. Bertolini/Bartel vs Enge/Garcia. Hmmmm.

If BMW commits to two cars and are serious as they should be they can find a driver pairing to make these guys #2 on the team.

With enough money they can snatch Dirk Muller from Tafel. He’s also a former factory driver for BMW.

In the past Team PTG has ran the M3s. But I guess BMW didn’t like the way they handled the Panoz program. But perhaps a squad of their caliber should’ve found a way to make it work. I think they tried but the Panoz was outdated.

And of course with Rahal Letterman BMW has access to a super fast young stud called Graham Rahal. Even though I think Bobby Rahal should use his money and connects to get him in F1. But that’s another story

Companies like Ferrari and Porsche are largely not involved in this downturn. In otherwords, they have “money” to throw at a “problem” whatever it is.

To Hand’s credit he’s done alot of tire testing which will come in handy as the M3 comes up to speed.

Auberlen has wasted his talent in DP’s with largely uncompetitive Ruby Tues car that will loose its sponsorship next season.

But are they BOTH quick enough? Dirk

Werner proved he is extremely fast and he’s not even 25! With direct factory input from Porsche I expect him to be a constant threat for pole which now garners an extra point for starting on pole. FBL was competitive from DAY ONE, so they will make the next jump and already have a victory under their belt.

I strongly urge Risi to work out a deal to get either Rob Bell or Gianni Bruni and create a “Super Team” of Melo/Bruni and Bell/Salo for the balance of the season.

I think BMW just needs to be somebody that’s flat out FAST in the car and that’s pointing to Augusto Farfus honestly.

We’ll see this off-season is very interesting and GT2 believe or not will actually be BETTER than last year or the year before, that’s unbelievable!