BMW M Hybrid V8

The BMW M Hybrid V8 is a sports prototype racing car designed by BMW M and built by Dallara to the Le Mans Daytona h (LMDh) regulations. It debuted in the 2023 IMSA SportsCar Championship at the season-opening 24 Hours of Daytona and has also contested the FIA World Endurance Championship from 2024 onwards, marking BMW's first return to the top flight of sports prototype racing since the V12 LMR in 1999. In June 2021 BMW announced it would join IMSA's GTP class in 2023 with an LMDh-compliant design, and three months later confirmed Dallara as chassis supplier, the first manufacturer in the LMDh rules to choose Dallara. A partnership with Rahal Letterman Lanigan Racing to run the cars in IMSA, continuing a relationship begun with the M3 GT2 in 2009, was announced in November 2021. The engine is a twin-turbocharged V8 developed from the M4 DTM engine of 2017 and 2018.