Pop Quiz: What do you get when you put a 900 horsepower, supercharged 440 into the back of a dune buggy? If you answered “A bunch of wicked sick wheelies,” then you get a gold star.
BMW Motorsport posted their entry into the best “Race Driver Scaring His Wife” video on YouTube yesterday. Brazilian DTM driver Augusto Farfus takes his wife, Liri, for a ride around the Nurburgring in an M3.
Sources: BMW Motorsport on YouTube via Autoblog and YouTube user Rbksmn
Nissan recently announced that the experimental Deltawing race car will be making a return after being unceremoniously knocked out of its one-time exhibition in Le Mans. The car will be making another appearance in the Petit Le Mans series here in the US. Highcroft racing posted this on-board footage of some testing at Road Atlanta.
EV West just posted the footage of the full Pikes Peak run of their 700 hp electric E36 BMW M3. It turns out their car was the first EV conversion to compete in the hill climb. They turned the power output down after they were getting a lot of power oversteer in qualifying. The result was a pretty clean and straight forward run up the mountain on race day. It was also pretty fast. They posted a time of 11:58.929 which was obviously the EV conversion record, but it was also good for fourth overall in the EV category.
I’m admittedly not an experienced motorcycle guy, but these tricks seem to be getting cartoonishly ridiculous. I’m wondering if the R&D process involves getting a trauma doctor and a mechanical engineer working in tandem to figure out ways to crash that would best devastate the largest number of bones in the human body. The guys then just take that and figure out some way to land it for our entertainment.