BMW M3 No. 21 Hotlap with Bill Auberlen at the BMW Performance Center

BMW M3 No. 21 Hotlap with Bill Auberlen at the BMW Performance Center in Spartanburg, South Carolina.

Elkhart Lake, Wis. - August 20, 2006... Bill Auberlen and Joey Hand co-drove the No. 21 BMW Team PTG M3 to a season's best second place in the GT2 class of the American Le Mans Series' Generac 500 today at Road America. The duo completed 71 laps of the venerable 4.048-mile Road America circuit, finishing only 4.237 seconds behind the class-winning Porsche. Auberlen and Hand both led during the two-hour-and-forty-five minute contest - Hand relinquishing the lead only three laps from the end after a fierce battle with winner Jorg Bergmeister.