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BMW V10 for F-1

24 September 1999

BMW Entering a New Test Phase

The 1999 Formula 1 season is slowly reaching its exciting finale. In
the meantime, BMW in Munich is continues to prepare for next
year's season. In the next few weeks the latest version of the V10
Formula 1 power unit built in Munich will be tested on BMW's own
proving grounds in Miramas (southern France) and on official race
tracks.

Today, two images have been made available, showing one of the
test cars in its current styling. Engine tests on the dynamometer
will be accompanied by further tests in the actual racing chassis,
boasting this livery.

The test car shown here is a Williams chassis of the same type
driven by Jacques Villeneuve and Heinz-Harald Frentzen at the
end of the 1998 Grand Prix season. While the future BMW
WilliamsF1,  taking BMW back into Formula 1 for the first time
since 1987, is being built in a joint development process by BMW
and Williams engineers, the engine in the car shown here was
merely adapted to the chassis by BMW. The tests now starting
thus serve not to set up new lap records, but rather to test and
further enhance the BMW V10 under realistic race track
conditions.


The images are available at the following address:
www.imagepark.de/bmwmotorsport
login: bmwak2
password: motorsport


Contact: 

Rudolf Andreas Probst, AK-2, Tel.: ++49-89-382-22088, 
Fax.: ++49-89-382-27563 

Jeffrey Ehoodin, BMW of North America, ph (201) 307-4082  
fax (201) 307-3607. jeff.ehoodin@bmwna.com

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