Having experienced the sights and sounds of and ALMS weekend in person last year for the first time, you can’t help but have a few favourites that you tend to capture a few more photos.  For myself, the works GT BMW M3 cars are a couple of my favourites.  Everything from the refined but distinct sound of the inline motor, to the widebody fender flares that give it that MEAN yet polished look…something about these cars keep you wanting more!

Here’s a great behind the scenes look at the cars from the guys at MotoIQ.  Take a look at all the dry carbon work within the engine bay and my personal favourite feature of having very trick carbon fiber exhaust chimney leading to the a-pillar…enjoy!

A Look Inside: The Rahal Letterman ALMS GT BMW M3 Coupes

Sorry about that folks, we were experiencing some technical difficulties today with the database server. Looks like one of the software engineers had a little too much hooch and spent the afternoon playing hide the pickle with himself rather than, well, anything else. At least that’s the best explanation I was given. Sounded legit at the time.

Nigel’s car gets a new wider GT wing this year.  I can’t wait to see what further aero enhancements the Can-Jam guys cook up for this car.

You really get a feeling for how low this car is now, and believe it or not this isn’t as low as it’s going to run normally, this was raised up!

Aerocatches for the rear “doors”. Nice touch.

Not much has changed on the interior of these cars, they were already fully built with all the proper safety and control, all race spec goodness.

Prior to swapping on the wet tires I managed to snap a pic of the dry setup as it stands currently, although that may change too apparently…

Look at how wide! That front chin splitter really does a great job – this was just a slight breeze and the whole car began to levitate…

I’m not kidding about the sleet and snow, conditions for these cars debuts were awful to say the least. Here’s Nigel or Nicholas (not sure who’s more creative this way) warming their gloves on the soup after a session in the wet!

This project has been ongoing for the past few months over at Can-Jam, they decided after dominating the Castrol Touring Car series last season so completely that they wanted to move the cars into events where there would be more opportunity for proper competition.

Nigel’s new black beast will be competing along with Nicholas’ revamped blue car this season in GT Sprints and the newly formed GT Challenge series. Despite appearances both cars have undergone some serious changes over the cold months and firm goals for these cars are set.

While the car may look low and wide now, this is nowhere near as low as it’s going to run normally and this wheel/tire combo isn’t even close to what is planned for this car…

Add to this a substantial aero package improvement along with some other plans I’ll leave for the next development installment, and this is one ‘project’ you’re going to want to keep an eye on.

I really can’t wait to see the next stage of this monster. It’s hard to look away!

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