With Honda, BMW and Ford back on the grid, F1 would be back up to six engine suppliers like it had been in the 2008 season that marked the highest level of participation from automakers in decades.

Apparently, BMW's deal to sell the Sauber F1 team doesn't include the engine operation in Munich, leaving McLaren free to make its move.

Top of the list for the 1988 Le Mans 24 Hours winner is the BMW M1 Procar in which he was a race winner in the F1-support series that many regard as the greatest one-make championship of them all.