• It’s always nice when the CEO of a major automaker shows an interest in motor sport, and an excellent example of this phenomenon took place at the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion when BMW North America chief Ludwig Willisch drove a 1975 BMW 3.0 CSL—one of the five team cars from the factory’s 1975-’76 IMSA effort—in Group 6A for IMSA GT and other similar cars. Willisch placed 29th in a field of 38 cars, but was happy to have been…

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