BMW rules out F1 return in the near future
4 September, 2012
Sep.4 (GMM) German motor manufacturer BMW has ruled out returning to Formula One in the “medium term”.
“There are currently no plans,” said the German carmaker’s motor sport director Jens Marquardt, whose predecessor was the well-known F1 figure Mario Theissen.
BMW, having collaborated first with Williams and then Sauber, pulled out of Formula One three years ago.
“In July of 2009, a very clear decision was made,” Marquardt told the Swiss publication Motorsport Aktuell.
“This [decision] stands. We are very well positioned in terms of our motor sport programme and this is not going to change at all in the medium term.”
BMW returned to the premier German ‘tin-top’ series (DTM) this year.
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I was a huge fan of BMW over the years & specially when they were engine partners with Williams, but sad to say…they come & go in F1…I will not support them if they return!