Road racing history has many fascinating footnotes, most about "near success", and so it is for the very last BMW using a factory race chassis. Look no further than this American BMW that represents the glorious first steps that would lead to R90S domination in mid-1970s Superbike racing.
BMW's participation in Superbike racing was part of a process of rejuvenation from staid to exciting. And so it was after the Adams family purchased BMW's US importers, New Jersey-based Butler & Smith, in 1971 and were faced with sluggish sales of the new R75/5, that company president Dr. Peter Adams created a five-year race program to refresh both his sales and the brand at large. Immediately he provided parts manager (and part-time racer), German-born, former NASA engineer, Udo Geitl, with resources to develop a Formula 750 R75/5 racer for AMA's 1972 National championship, run for the first time under F750 rules. Read more : Here
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