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BMW is back
BMW confirmed its factory reentry into the American Le Mans Series for 2006. The company will return to the GT class, battling Porsche and Panoz. Tom Milner's Team Prototype Technology Group will carry the BMW banner. PTG won the series' first GT team championship with Hans Stuck, Boris Said, Johannes van Overbeek, Brian Cunning-ham, Peter Cunningham and Brian Simo driving. PTG will run two cars in the new GT2S class, a subcategory of GT2.
In the streets
A1 Grand Prix confirmed its South African race will be held on a new street circuit in Durban Jan. 29, 2006. The Feb. 12 Brazilian round at Curitiba has been canceled due to circuit licensing problems.
Grand-Am Cup schedule
The Grand American Road Racing Association released its 2006 series schedule. Virginia International Raceway hosts two rounds, and the series will race at the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres. Grand-Am adds two new venues, Lime Rock Park and Miller Motor-sports Park in Salt Lake City. The full schedule: Daytona, Jan. 26-29; Virginia International Raceway, April 22-23; Mazda Raceway at Laguna Seca, May 6-7; Phoenix International Raceway, May 13-14; Lime Rock Park, May 27-28; Mid-Ohio, June 24-25; Barber Motorsports Park, July 29-30; Trois-Rivieres, Aug. 5-6; Miller Motorsports Park, Sept. 2-3; Virginia International Raceway, Oct. 7-8.
Dupuy hurt
Source: HighBeam Research, Flash.(Briefs)