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[Van Diemen Driver]

I am looking for information on the official BMW e30 racing cars. These are the 3 series from the 80's on which the first M3 was based.

I have seen some pictures in the past of official e30 racing cars but I don't know the years they raced in. Can anyone help me with pictures, technical information or pointers to interesting websites?

[Frank de Jong]

BMW never had works E30's; the only E30 cars which came close were the semiworks cars of Linder. Check my site for 1985-86 ETCC results and pictures.

[RTH]

The red car was our 325 sport in the 1986 Willhire 24hrs of Snetterton

the white M3 we did the same race in, in 87 ''88 and '89

[Cal]

Tony Longhurst finished 4th in the 1986 Australian Touring Car Championship in a 325i which utilised some Linder parts. It was for sale in New Zealand recently, but I couldn't find the photo. I did find one of the Linder car though.



Cal.

[Herbert]

There were a lot of BMW 323i in the DTM. Winnie Voigt even won the race with Linder at Mainz-Finthen in 1985. They were used by some teams instead of the big 635 CSi, which was developed by the works.

You can find the DTM-Results from the mid-eighties on www.dtm.de/statistik.php