BMW Spain Motorsport’s second victory in the CER

BMW Spain Motorsport continues to Portugal in its superb 2022 season of the Spanish Endurance Championship adding new success with the official BMW M2 CS Racing. José Manuel De los Milagros at Nerea Martí, who had already won the first of the races held at the Cheste, came to the Algarve International Circuit tied for points in the Class 1 and D1 classification. And in the layout of Portimao the two Spanish riders once again had an exciting hand in hand with the Portuguese Pedro Pereira and Jorge Pereira who, along with his Veloso Motorsport team, is running this time at home.

The pre-season of the official BMW Group Spain team participating in the BMW M2 CS Racing Winter Series Cup, which is one of the races that took place on the circuit located in the south of Portugal, was a great shoot for the weekend. So, in the first free practice Martí and De los Milagros they achieved a time of 1m57.927s which they dropped in the second session to a record 1m56.781s. It’s Saturday, in the classification, of miracles fly to pole position in Q1 with a time of 1m55.380s while in second Marti He did the same with his 1m54.592s lap, at the same time beating Portuguese Pereira using the Audi RS3 LMS TCR.

In the afternoon it was time for the first race, scheduled for forty-eight minutes plus a lap, where of miracles began to make the first relay. The rider from Soto del Real remains ahead at the start Jorge Pereira and, little by little, he opened a gap to his rival. In the sixth lap, BMW M2 CS Racing took the lead Pereira within five seconds and two turns after this difference grew to seven. When the time came for the change of pilots, Of Miracle and Pereira they simultaneously saved but with a deficit of ten seconds in the Portuguese classification. Marti back on track and from there to the end he dedicated himself to managing the advantage Peter Pereira, without punishing some tires due to the heat suffered especially in Portimão.

After 26 laps, Marti passed to the previous purpose Pereira and adding some important points for the overall classification. A slight setback on Sunday prevented the team from participating in the second race. “We were thrilled to win again in the Algarve, a circuit that is very different to Cheste and demonstrates the flexibility of our BMW M2 CS Racing on all types of tracks. Daniel Gonzalz and the entire BMW Spain Motorsport team have given us a very good car, both in qualification and in racing, that can ride at a very high level “, commented the drivers of BMW Spain Motorsport. They added that” despite a small setback he did not allow us to go to the second race, it did not affect our chances for the title. We can throw away two results this year, so we still have another wild card that we can use if needed later. Also, our rivals will only get half the points. ” The championship will continue at Motorland Aragón on June 25 and 26.