This was amongst the BMWs displayed at the Coys International Historic Festival meeting at Silverstone in July 1994.
It's a BMW M1, a mid-engined car (BMW's first) that was produced from 1978 to 1981 with a 3,453cc DOHC straight-6 engine. Only 453 cars were built, 20 of which were competition versions made for the one-make Procar Championship, the rounds of which were mainly run as support races at some of the European Grand Prix events in the 1979 and 1980 seasons. Several of the cars were driven in these races by Formula One drivers, the Championship in 1979 being won by Niki Lauda and by Nelson Piquet in 1980. The name on the door of the car above is that of Hans-Joachim Stuck, who competed in the Championship in both of those years.
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