BMW M4 GT3 EVO Wins Petit Le Mans as BMW M Crew RLL Bows Out After 17 Years

BMW M Motorsport ended the 2025 IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship season with a mixture of celebration and frustration at Petit Le Mans. The ten-hour finale at Street Atlanta introduced a standout win for Paul Miller Racing’s #48 BMW M4 GT3 EVO within the GTD PRO class — but in addition a painful late setback for BMW M Crew RLL in its ultimate race with the M Hybrid V8.

Paul Miller Racing Takes Command

Dan Harper, Max Hesse, and Connor De Phillippi had been untouchable within the #48 BMW M4 GT3 EVO. Harper began from pole for the second 12 months in a row, and the automobile led many of the race, not often trying below menace. The group sealed the GTD PRO win with a cushty margin and, in doing so, secured the IMSA Michelin Endurance Cup title for Harper and Hesse — each of their first full IMSA season.

It was a rougher day for the sister #1 automobile, which dropped again early as a consequence of a technical drawback and completed ninth. Turner Motorsport’s #96 BMW M4 GT3, pushed by Robby Foley, Patrick Gallagher, and Jake Walker, got here residence eighth in GTD.

The BMW victory capped off a decent struggle within the GTD PRO ranks. Behind the #48, the Corvette Racing/Pratt & Miller Z06 GT3.R entries stuffed out the rostrum. Nicky Catsburg, Tommy Milner, and Nico Varrone completed second, whereas Alexander Sims, Antonio Garcia, and Daniel Juncadella took third — sufficient to clinch the season title for Sims and Garcia.

A Laborious Goodbye for BMW M Crew RLL

For BMW M Crew RLL, the race marked the finish of an extended partnership with BMW M Motorsport. After 17 years, 25 wins, and greater than 100 podiums, the collaboration closed with another hard-fought race that didn’t go the group’s method. The #24 BMW M Hybrid V8, shared by Philipp Eng, Dries Vanthoor, and Kevin Magnussen, was working fourth when a right-rear puncture struck with simply ten minutes left. The unscheduled pit cease dropped them to ninth on the end. The #25 automobile, pushed by Sheldon van der Linde, Marco Wittmann, and Robin Frijns, positioned eleventh after two drive-through penalties price them observe place.

From 2026, BMW M Crew WRT will take over the model’s GTP programconstructing on its success with the M4 GT3 in GT racing.

Cadillac Wins the Race, Porsche Takes the Titles

On the entrance of the sphere, the #31 Motion Specific Racing Cadillac V-Sequence.R took total honors after 10 hours of racing, ending 5.1 seconds forward of the #23 Coronary heart of Racing Aston Martin Valkyrie LMH pushed by Ross Gunn, Roman De Angelis, and Alex Riberas.

Third place went to the #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 LMDh of Mathieu Jaminet, Matt Campbell, and Laurens Vanthoor — sufficient to safe the IMSA SportsCar Championship drivers’ title for Campbell and Jaminet. Porsche additionally locked down the producers’, groups’, and Endurance Cup titles within the GTP class, the latter with Nick Tandy and Felipe Nasr within the sister #7 automobile.

Petit Le Mans closed one chapter and opened one other for BMW in North American endurance racing. The M4 GT3 EVO ended its season on high, whereas the M Hybrid V8 stated goodbye with unfinished enterprise. With BMW M Crew WRT set to guide the following part of BMW’s IMSA marketing campaign, the main target now shifts to 2026 — and the pursuit of extra silverware.