BMW’s newest GT3 contender was publicly released in Germany this week. Here are a few words on the race car by BMW Motorsport’s director Jens Marquardt.

“We have really put a lot of effort into the car regarding putting ourselves into the customers shoes and thinking what they would want to have from a car,” Marquardt told Sportscar365.

“Obviously you’d like to have an efficient powertrain. If there was a part of the Z4 package that wasn’t ideal, you could probably say it was the powertrain side.

“Therefore we said we needed to look at those performance windows that are now defined on what is the best fit we can get from a production-based engine.”