Team WRT to field BMW’s 20th Art Car at Le Mans

BMW Motorsport has revealed that the No. 20 Team WRT’s M Hybrid V8 Hypercar will race at the 2024 Le Mans 24 Hours as the brand’s 20th ‘Art Car’.

The one-off livery for the No. 20, which will be driven by Sheldon van der Linde, Robin Frijns, and René Rast, is set to be revealed at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, France on May 21st.

The new color scheme for the car is being designed by American artist Julie Mehretu, who is is working with BMW on a three-dimensional format for the first time.

“For the 20th BMW art car, Mehretu uses the color and form vocabulary of an existing large-format painting from a more recent series of works: obscured photographs, dotted grids, neon-coloured spray paint and Mehretu’s iconic gestural markings give her design an abstract visual form,” read a BMW statement.

“She transfers the resulting image motif as a high-resolution photograph onto the vehicle’s contours using a 3D mapping technique. This creates the unique artistic foiling with which the BMW M Hybrid V8 will compete in the Le Mans race.”