Will Turner said he’s remaining realistic on the prospects of potentially pulling off three professional North American sports car racing titles in the same year, with each of his BMW programs either leading or in the fight for their respective championships with two races to go across all series.
The team with the most starts in BMW machinery worldwide currently sits second in the IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship GTD standings with Robby Foley and Patrick Gallagher, only 36 points behind the Winward Racing duo of Philip Ellis and Russell Ward.
Dillon Machavern and Luca Mars, meanwhile, took over the Michelin Pilot Challenge GS points lead last time out at Virginia International Raceway, while Foley and Justin Rothberg enter the final two round of GT World Challenge America powered by AWS just four points out of the lead in the Pro class.
Never has a team won both a WeatherTech Championship and Pilot Challenge title in the same year, while it’s believed that a single team has never achieved three championships across two different U.S.-based pro sports car racing organizations before.
“I’m not superstitious but it’s one of those things where you don’t want to get your hopes ...