How the hell did the M3GTR entered a full season in 2001 if it didnt comply the homologation rule? is there a loop hole? or the ALMS organizers suddenly realise that the M3 dont have a V8 but an I6 instead?

RacingManiac...woudl you know the answer to this I'm curious myself.

Politics, it's happened before, it's happening now (M3, S7, C5) and it'll happen again.

Basically, would you rather see 40 GT3s running in GTS, or 36 GT3s and 4 M3s?

Here is what happened, ALMS uses the ACO rule written by this french guy, the rule is a good one which balances out the field and different class perfectly. But there was one problem with the rule of GT. The GT car have to be derive from production car, go through a homologation process which allows it to compete, but in that rule, it did NOT specified that the car have to have all of it's homologation done BEFORE they compete. In theory a manufacturer can build the car, race it, and then follow up by a full homologation while it's competing. BMW saw this, built an essentially a prototype, purpose built M3 GTR, and compete, and win. Of course by now ACO realized that what was wrong with the rule, so 2002 they fixed it, reinforce the rule with specific homologation numbers, procedure, and require this to be done BEFORE they compete. And the whole thing just out last month so that gave BMW very little time to comply with it, and the panelty of not complying with the rule is basically to run a car 100kg heavier, and run it with smaller restrictor(limit the engine to about 350bhp compare to 450 in BMW's case, according to them). BMW tested the panelty last week with Tom Milner's PTG team, and went away disappointed with the lap time. So they decide they just going to withdraw in 2002 altogether.......