Contemporary witnesses
Contemporary witnesses in portrait
The history of the M1 begins at the beginning of January 1972 with a phone call from the then BMW sales director Bob Lutz to Jochen Neerpasch, who had been a successful racing director at Ford in Cologne since 1969 …
Many greats in motorsport have accompanied the M1 in its creation and in its active racing car career. Some of them can be seen here and we have also prepared one or the other brief profile for you.