BMW's next art car will be entered in the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans.
, and the finished car will race at the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans as part of BMW's return to the French endurance race.
The artist will be Julie Mehretu, BMW announced last week at New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, where an M Hybrid V8 with naked carbon-fiber bodywork was displayed as a preview of the project. Mehretu, who was born in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, in 1970 but has been based in New York City since 1999, will be given"total creative freedom" to design the next BMW art car, the automaker said.to create art cars. The list, including Alexander Calder, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, and Jeff Koons, reads like the syllabus for an art history course.
The M Hybrid V8 was built to the LMDh regulations of the North American IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, but rules overlap allows it to race in the WEC Hypercar class as well. BMW is already running two cars in the IMSA series with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing, but hasn't confirmed a Stateside appearance for the planned art car.
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