Based mostly on the sooner remark …
“The merger is meant to create a basis for the way forward for motorsport at BMW – and that’s at the moment huge open. Along with the exit from the DTM and the introduced departure from Formulation E, BMW additionally diminished its works involvement within the IMSA sequence: This 12 months, two BMW M8 GTEs will solely compete within the remaining three endurance races of the US racing sequence.”
… Motorsport division departed a number of venues which implies the organizational necessities are additionally smaller.
This is sensible: merge the organizations and scale back prices (which is what BMW is doing throughout different initiatives).