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From BMW press release
For the second time this season in DTM, two races are taking place within a week of each other. The teams must move house from Nurburgring to Zandvoort in record time. For BMW Motorsport, more than 350 tons of material must be transported from the Eifel Mountains to the Dutch North Sea coast, where it must then be assembled and made ready for the race weekend.
BMW Motorsport and its three teams are travelling with plenty of luggage. More than 30 trucks are making their way on the 360-kilometre journey to Zandvoort, carrying with them the cars, equipment and the BMW Motorsport Team and Media Hospitality.
The schedule is a tight one. Long before the drivers climb into their BMW M3 DTMs for the first time at the “Circuit Park Zandvoort”, everything from the cars to the final paper serviettes must have been delivered and the garages and hospitality buildings completely set up by Thursday.
In Germany, teams first dismantled their garages and packed their equipment into special transport cases, before the first parts could be loaded onto the trucks three hours after the end of the race. The tire store and offices for the engineers were also sent on their way to Zandvoort, only to be reassembled there in record speed.
The BMW Motorsport Team and Media Hospitality underwent the same process. As the Nurburgring race was on, those responsible for erecting the structures on the North Sea coast were already hard at work installing a second ground plate. Then, the hospitality building is taken apart. Step-by-step the front of the top floor was removed, followed by the roof panels and the steel framework.
The team then loaded the container modules onto special trucks, using a 100-ton crane, before the false ceiling was removed and the ground floor dismantled and prepared for shipping in the same way.
The BMW Motorsport Team and Media Hospitality is far from a simple tent. Nowadays it is more of a modern multi-functional building - with kitchen and medical rooms - covering an area of 1,200m². It can be dismantled and reassembled again in just three days and nights!
For the second time this season in DTM, two races are taking place within a week of each other. The teams must move house from Nurburgring to Zandvoort in record time. For BMW Motorsport, more than 350 tons of material must be transported from the Eifel Mountains to the Dutch North Sea coast, where it must then be assembled and made ready for the race weekend.
BMW Motorsport and its three teams are travelling with plenty of luggage. More than 30 trucks are making their way on the 360-kilometre journey to Zandvoort, carrying with them the cars, equipment and the BMW Motorsport Team and Media Hospitality.
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| Photo: BMW Motorsport |
The schedule is a tight one. Long before the drivers climb into their BMW M3 DTMs for the first time at the “Circuit Park Zandvoort”, everything from the cars to the final paper serviettes must have been delivered and the garages and hospitality buildings completely set up by Thursday.
In Germany, teams first dismantled their garages and packed their equipment into special transport cases, before the first parts could be loaded onto the trucks three hours after the end of the race. The tire store and offices for the engineers were also sent on their way to Zandvoort, only to be reassembled there in record speed.
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| Photo: BMW Motorsport |
The BMW Motorsport Team and Media Hospitality underwent the same process. As the Nurburgring race was on, those responsible for erecting the structures on the North Sea coast were already hard at work installing a second ground plate. Then, the hospitality building is taken apart. Step-by-step the front of the top floor was removed, followed by the roof panels and the steel framework.
 |
| Photo: BMW Motorsport |
The team then loaded the container modules onto special trucks, using a 100-ton crane, before the false ceiling was removed and the ground floor dismantled and prepared for shipping in the same way.
The BMW Motorsport Team and Media Hospitality is far from a simple tent. Nowadays it is more of a modern multi-functional building - with kitchen and medical rooms - covering an area of 1,200m². It can be dismantled and reassembled again in just three days and nights!
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| Photo: BMW Motorsport |