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BMW CCA Puerto Rico Chapter Newsletter Chapter email: [email protected] | Chapter Page: www.facebook.com/bmwccaprChapter Active Link: www.twitter.com/bmwccapr Club Mail Address: BMW CCA PR | PO BOX 2033 | San Juan, Puerto Rico 00919-2033

Newsletter: MAY 2012 – JUN 2012

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BMW MOTORCYCLES:1-2-3 in Monza qualifying

(BMW CCA | Posted On May. 4, 2012)

There was an all BMW battle for the top spot in thefirst World Superbike qualifying session at Monza Fridaywith three of the S1000 RRs battling for provisional poleposition. In the end, however, the one on top is not the onemost expected, Cycle News reports.

Michel Fabrizio leads Marco Melandri and Leon Haslam in Monza qualifying

Michel Fabrizio rode his privateer BMW Motorrad ItaliaGoldbet BMW to the fastest time, the Italian climbing up thetime sheets to nab the top spot with two minutes to go in thesession. Fabrizio's last pole position came at Imola in Italy in

September of 2009 and he proved Friday that he will be afactor.

Fellow Italian Marco Melandri held the top spot for nearlythe entire session, the factory BMW man seemingly incontrol until being caught out by Fabrizio at the very end.Still, he missed out on provisional pole by just .053 of assecond with his 1:42.380 just off Fabrizio's 1:42.327 in asession that featured eight riders within a second of the topspot.

Brit Leon Haslam rode the third BMW to the third fastesttime, his 1:42.523 must .143 of a second behind Fabrizio.

The first non-BMW on the grid is the factory Aprilia ridden tothe fourth fastest time by Eugene Laverty. Laverty held thetop spot briefly early on, but was always in the mix.

Kawasaki's Tom Sykes ended up fifth and the Brit willattempt to keep his perfect 2012 pole record intact onSaturday.

Aprilia's Max Biaggi ended up sixth, the Italian the last riderin the 1:42 bracket. Then came Ayrton Badovini on yetanother BMW. He led ParkinGo Aprilia's Chaz Davies.

World Champion Carlos Checa could only muster up theninth fastest time, the Spaniard just ahead of his 10thplaced Italian teammate Davide Giugliano.

American John Hopkins improved dramatically in his firstvisit to Monza, the Crescent Fixi Suzuki rider jumping up to12th late in the session. Hopkins is 1.2 seconds offFabrizio's best.

––Paul Duchene Qualifying

1. Michel Fabrizio (BMW) 1:42.3272. Marco Melandri (BMW) 1:42.3803. Leon Haslam (BMW) 1:42.523

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President's Letter:Is There a BMW 507 in Puerto Rico?

This is one for the BMW CSI team:

As you may know, the BMW 507 is a roadster produced by BMW from 1956 to 1959.Initially intended to be exported to the United States at a rate of thousands per year, itended upbeing tooexpensive,resulting in atotalproductionfigure of 252cars andheavy lossesfor BMW.

Rumors havebeen floating

for years thatthere is aBMW 507stashed awayinside an oldwarehouse inthe San JuanMetro area. It supposedly belongs to a prominent local family, who bought it since new.

We have heard that this car, together with a Mercedes 300SL Gullwing, was exhibited atPlaza Las Americas when it opened back in 1968. Are there any Chapter members thatrecall this?

As further evidence, a brand new front grille for a 507 was found in the NOS partsinventory from former Caribe BMW dealer which used to be in Chardon Avenue in HatoRey. This inventory was purchased by a former P.R. Chapter member, who now lives inFlorida, a few years after the dealer closed down.

It would be great to verify if this car in fact exists and is in restorable condition. If anyone of you has any information about this car and its whereabouts, please share it withour members!

By Harry Bonkosky, President

Change of Address Information: Please send your request for address changes directly to the National Office at theaddress below. Local Chapters receive this information directly from National Office and cannot perform any changefrom within. | Roundel BMWCCA, Inc. | Address Changes | 640 South Main Street, Suite 210 | Greenville, SC 29601 |Or visit: www.bmwcca.org Club Board:

President: Harry Bonkosky 787-354-8816 | Vice Pres.: Orlando Martin 787-313-1408Treasurer: Ramon Velez 787-643-2495 | Secretary: Pedro Medina 787-406-2426

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BMW profits beat expectations(BMW CCA News | Posted On May. 3, 2012)

BMW, the world's largest maker of luxury vehicles, reported first-quarterprofits that beat analysts' expectations, as demand for the revamped 1Series fueled record deliveries.

Earnings before interest and taxes rose 19 percent to $2.8 billion from$2.34 billion a year earlier, the company said Thursday. The figure beatthe $2.26 billion average estimate of nine analysts surveyed byBloomberg. Sales rose 14 percent to $23.8 billion, outpacing the 11percent rise in deliveries.

"The higher revenue gain shows that prices increased, which led tohigher profit," said Hans-Peter Wodniok, an analyst at Fairesearch inKronberg, Germany. "The sport-utility vehicles did very well and the 1-Series shot off like a rocket."

BMW stuck to its target of increasing pretax earnings for the full year,

with the auto unit generating a margin at the upper end of the 8 percentto 10 percent range. The company is counting on demand for a newgeneration of the best-selling 3 Series sedan, which was introduced inFebruary, to boost deliveries and offset development costs for the i3battery- powered city car, which will be rolled out next year.

BMW shares rose as much as 3.6 percent to $95.75 and were up 2.1percent as of 9:35 a.m. in Frankfurt trading. The stock has risen 41percent this year, making it the top- performing carmaker in the 14-member Euro Stoxx Autos and Parts Index and valuing the company at$60,58 billion.

The car and motorcycle manufacturer is expanding to fend off efforts byVolkswagen AG's Audi and Daimler AG's Mercedes- Benz to grab thesales lead in luxury autos. The maker of BMW, Mini and Rolls-Roycemodels will start production at a second plant in China later this monthbut has temprarily shelved plans in Brazil.

BMW's auto unit recorded 11.6 percent return on sales, down from an11.9 percent margin a year ago. The figure beat Audi's 11.4 percentreturn and Mercedes's 8.4 percent. BMW's auto deliveries rose to arecord 425,528 vehicles in the first quarter from 382,758 a year earlier,as 1-Series sales climbed 20 percent and the X3 SUV surged 55

percent.BMW spent $650 million in the second half of 2011 to introduce newmodels, weakening margins. Investments to introduce the "i" electric-carsub-brand and to expand into new markets will probably burden profitmore in 2012 than last year, Chief Financial Officer Friedrich Eichinersaid in March.

The world's top three upscale carmakers are all projecting sales recordsthis year on growth in China and recovering spending in the U.S. BMWis targeting sales of at least 2 million vehicles by 2016 after delivering1.67 million in 2011.

BMW expects deliveries in 2012 to rise even as the debt crisis inEurope softens demand in its home region, backed by new versions ofthe 1 and 3 Series and a new four-door version of the 6-Series luxurycoupe. The company has projected sales this year to rise by at least 10percent in China and by a "high single-digit" rate in North America,offsetting a market decline of as much as 5 percent in Europe. ––Paul Duchene

DTM: Spengler Earns BMW’s First Win On Series ReturnDriving the BMW M3 DTM, Bruno Spengler won the second DTM round of the yearat Lausitzring, the first DTM race win for BMW in 20 years.

Driving the BMW M3 DTM, Canadian Bruno Spengler won the second DTM round of the year atLausitzring and thus secured a DTM race win for the brand from Munich after 20 years.

―I can hardly believe it. On Saturday, the first pole after 20 years, today the 50th DTM race win forBMW achieved by me. I had goose bumps all over. I will never forget this weekend‖, the 28-year oldwinner said.

Behind him was

second-placed GaryPaffett with the DTMMercedes AMG C-Coupé, who had wonthe season opener atHockenheim, andBrazilian AugustoFarfus crowned theperfect weekend forBMW by finishingthird.

In total, 72,000spectators watchedthe three-way battleof the premiummanufacturers Audi,BMW and Mercedes-Benz in the Lausitz

region.On the way to the tenth DTM race win of his career, Spengler showed a dominant performance andstrong nerves. From the very beginning, he had to withstand the attacks from Paffett, who hadovertaken Farfus at the start and from then on kept the pressure on Spengler. ―I have tried everythingto overtake Bruno, but today, I didn’t succeed. We could have won, but we still extend our points’ leadwith this second-place finish, which is great‖, Paffett said about his situation.

Mattias Ekström ended up as the best-placed Audi driver. The Swede with the Audi A5 DTM, whofinished fifth behind Brit Jamie Green (Mercedes-Benz), said after the race: ―Today, we couldn’t doany better. Here, we still lacked the pace to win the race. But today, we still have learned a lot again,which is the most important thing. And I have scored further valuable points. The season is still long.‖

Ekström’s fellow Audi driver, two times’ DTM champion Timo Scheider, was able to improve fromtwelfth place on the grid to finish sixth after the 52 lap race. Reigning DTM champion Martin Tomczykfinished seventh and became the third BMW driver to score points. The two Audi drivers EdoardoMortara from Italy and Portuguese Filipe Albuquerque and Ralf Schumacher (Mercedes-Benz)rounded out the top ten.

American Joey Hand finished 14th for BMW after a pit strategy choice had the rookie driver runningthe longest on each set of tires, pitting last on both occasions.

―In actual fact, that did not go so badly," he said. "I had a difficult start, as I had Andy Priaulx directly in

front of me. I had to hold back, in order to avoid risking contact. In the race, the balance of mySAMSUNG BMW M3 DTM was absolutely fine. That was only my second race in the DTM, and I mustcontinue to work on my performance. I will improve and learn a lot from race to race.‖

Joey Hand set the fifth-fastest lap of the 52-lap race.

BMW Motorsport director Jens Marquardt applauded the efforts of Spengler to return the manufacturerto the victory column so early in its return to the DTM.

―Most certainly, this is a very special moment which we didn’t expect this way. This fantastic victory byBruno Spengler is the crown on a week, which was quite something. Firstly, we had our strongcomeback weekend at Hockenheim, then our maiden pole-position yesterday and today, in only oursecond race, already the first victory in our new DTM era. This is fantastic, simply unbelievable,absolutely awesome!‖

In the drivers’ standings, Paffett remains in the lead with 43 points from his fellow Mercedes-Benzdriver Green (30 points). Spengler and Ekström are tied in fourth place with 25 points each (Source:Speed/Foxsports Posted May 06, 2012 )



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GRAND-AM NEWS: (DP) TEAM TELMEX EARNS SECOND PODIUM OF THE YEARResults (with starting position) from Homestead-MiamiSpeedway1. (9) No. 10 Corvette DP (Angelelli/Taylor)2. (4) No. 01 TELMEX Dinan-Prepared BMW/Riley(Pruett/Rojas)3. (6) No. 5 Corvette DP (Law/Donohue)

Team TELMEX Takes Points Lead with Second-PlaceFinish at Homestead-Miami Speedway

HOMESTEAD, Fla. (April 29, 2012) – TELMEX Chip GanassiRacing with Felix Sabates (CGRFS) drivers Scott Pruett andMemo Rojas took over the points lead with a second-placefinish in the rain-shortened Grand Prix of Miami at Homestead-Miami Speedway, earning the team’s second podium finish ofthe season and the 75th podium since the team formed in 2004.

Rojas rolled off fourth after the field was set based on points, asrain cancelled qualifying. Heavy rain and poor visibility forcedthe two-hour and 45-minute race to begin under caution. Therace quickly went green, with Rojas moving up to third shortlyafter, battling the elements and a broken windshield wiper. Twocautions waved early, within 30 minutes of the start, both for heavy rain.

Team TELMEX elected to pit during the second caution and performed a driver change as Pruett took over behind the wheel of the No. 01 BMW/Riley. With overone hour and 40 minutes left, a wild restart saw the leader spin and the second-place car receive a penalty for the contact. Pruett was able to avoid the incident andmove up to second. The No. 01 would continue to tick off laps in second until a final caution came out for rain with less than one and a half hours left. Drivers wouldrun under caution for over 20 minutes until the race was shortened, with 52 minutes left, due to the rainy conditions.

With this finish, CGRFS is now first in the GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car series point standings with 87 points.

BMW is third in manufacturer point standings with 90 points, 6 points behind leading manufacturer Corvette.

Round 4 for the 2012 Rolex Series season will be at New Jersey Motorsports Park in Millville, New Jersey on Sunday, May 13. The Global Barter 250 presented bySusan G. Komen for the Cure will air live on SPEED 1:00 pm ET.

FALL-LINE MOTORSPORTS (GS) MAINTAINS 2ND AND 3RD PLACE IN 2012 CHAMPIONSHIP AFTERHOMESTEAD Buffalo Grove, IL, (May 1, 2012)—- Fall-Line Motorsports worked veryhard all winter andsince the first race of the season to prepare their BMW M3s and lead

the way of the BMW top teams. Fall-Line came to Homestead with thedesire to do well and achieve another strong performance in aContinental Tire Sports Car Challenge race with their three BMW M3s.The result is that neither one of the three cars entered by Fall-Line wasable to keep up with the leading cars in the race nor finish in the top fivein Southern Florida. The competition seems to now have a seriousadvantage over the BMW GS cars which have been running with addedweight since Daytona. The field does not look too even any longer and itis tough to compete with the leading Porsches, Subaru, Aston Martins

and Ford Mustangs.

Despite this disadvantage the Fall-Line drivers did their job and drovehard to score the best result they could. The 45 B+ Foundation – JetsetMagazine Fall-Line BMW co-driven by Al Carter finished 8th. The 46BCKSTGR Fall-Line BMW co-driven by Mark Boden and Bryan Sellers,24th due to several incidents and the 48 OMP Fall-Line BMW co-drivenby Charles Putman and Charles Espenlaub, 6th.

After three races, the Fall-Line Motorsports 45 and 48 BMWs were ableto stay in the top three in the championship. The 48 OMP Fall-LineBMW of Putman and Espenlaub is now ranked 2nd in points with 83points after Homestead and the 45 of Carter and Plumb is 3rd. with 81 points. (Source: Fall-Line Motorsports Website News)



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BMW CCA PR – Cars & Coffee Outings!

Visita KKD Ponce 2012 03 25 1 Seguimos haciendo nuestros ―Cars & Coffee‖ bi-mensuales. La asistencia ha sido excelente y hemos estado ya en

Dorado, Cagüas, Guaynabo & PONCE! Los mismos se han estado haciendo en los Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, y

esperamos andar por el nuevo de Mayagüez durante el verano. Próximamente estaremos en KKD de Guaynabo

nuevamente! Regularmente los anunciamos por correo_e y a través de la página de Facebook del club. En estas

reuniones informales compartimos e intercambiamos experiencias y la camaradería que nos caracteriza. Les

esperamos!

Por Pedro Medina, Secretario

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