Turner Motorsport takes Indianapolis 8 Hour title as BMW teams sweep NLS and Italian GT crowns

BMW M Motorsport teams closed the 2026 season with a run of championship wins. The headline result came at the Indianapolis 8 Hour, the season finale of both the GT World Challenge America and the Intercontinental GT Challenge, where the Turner Motorsport #29 BMW M4 GT3 EVO started from pole, finished third overall and won the Pro Cup class. That was enough to give BMW M works drivers Robby Foley and Connor De Phillippi and their team-mate Justin Rothberg the GT World Challenge America title, the third in a row for Foley and Rothberg after two Pro-Am crowns. The same weekend brought BMW overall and Speed Trophy titles in the NLS and a Sprint crown in the Italian GT Championship at Monza.

The NLS title went to Sven Markert, Jannik Fübrich and Edoardo Bugane of Adrenalin Motorsport Team Mainhattan Wheels, who started the four-hour finale with a four-point lead and clinched the overall crown with a controlled class win in the #650 BMW M240i Racing. It was the eleventh overall victory in a row for a BMW M Motorsport team on the Nordschleife, a streak that began in 2016, and a return to the top for Adrenalin after a one-year break, its eighth title in nine years. Schubert Motorsport's Tim Tramnitz and Jordan Pepper finished third in the #77 BMW M4 GT3 EVO to seal the NLS Speed Trophy, with team boss Torsten Schubert praising an extensive test programme with tyre partner Yokohama and the BMW M3 Touring 24H project. Alexandru Vasilescu took the Gentleman Trophy and SP10 class titles with the AV Racing by BLACK FALCON #177 BMW M4 GT4 EVO, Gamota Racing locked out the front row in qualifying before finishing sixth and 13th, and BMW teams collected seven class victories in total.

At Monza, Klingmann and BMW M works driver colleague Ugo de Wilde shared the #7 BMW M4 GT3 EVO for BMW Italia Ceccato Racing, finishing tenth in the Pro category in the first race so that everything depended on Sunday's finale, which began with a multi-car crash in the first chicane. Klingmann's title rivals Georgi Dimitrov and Simone Riccitelli led in their Lamborghini after an early pit stop, but Klingmann's seventh place in the Pro class was enough: the rivals ended level on points and level on wins, and Klingmann took the crown thanks to one more second place. In Saturday's race, Charles Weerts and Mathias Villadsen finished second overall in the Team Spirit Racing #23 car, while Anthony McIntosh and Parker Thompson won the Pro-Am class in the BMW Italia Ceccato Racing #8 car before a Sunday retirement ended their title hopes. In the other M News results, Sam Craven and Kenton Koch took the GT4 America Pro-Am title at Indianapolis while Michael Garcia and Alex Garcia won the Am class and Joseph and Lucas Catania finished third, and Craig Lumsden had already secured the GT America championship before taking second on the GT4 podium at the same circuit. At Monza, Andrea Palazzo and Aiva Anagnostiadis won the first Italian GT4 race from Sebastian Gavazza and Luca Esposito as Giacomo Maman and Gustavo Sandrucci were confirmed as Pro-Am champions, Brian Lee and Maxime Oosten took a Silver-Am win and a third place in Beijing with GTO with KRC, and Courtney Crone added two GSX podiums at Road Atlanta in the VP Challenge.