BMW M235i and speedway bike drift for 5 hours

Last month, BMW aired up with four-times dirt-track world champion Karl Maier and his speedway bike to show us how a BMW M235i can drift for five straight hours.

The event took place at the Landshut/Ellermühle speedway stadium where a BMW M235i with M Performance Parts drifted onto the almost 400-metre-long track along with Maier and his dirt-track bike.

The BMW M235i M Performance is powered by a 3.0-liter BMW TwinPower Turbo petrol engine developing 326 hp and 450 Nm (332 lb-ft), has a DIN vehicle weight of 1,470 kilograms and measures almost four-and-a-half metres in length.

The speedway motorcycle, meanwhile, has an air-cooled 500 cc single-cylinder engine, weighs 80 kg (as per speedway regulations), makes do with just a single gear and has no brakes. The specially designed methanol-fuelled machine produces up to 80 hp and has been built exclusively for speedway track use.

Both driver and rider succeeded in fulfilling a common goal: five hours of “sheer drifting pleasure” on the tightest of tracks.

And now we have a video featuring Maier who tells this exciting story:

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The Golf R is powered by a EA888 2.0-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine. This will produce 290 brake horsepower.

Both vehicles aim to produce in the neighborhood of 300 horsepower, with the BMW taking the edge with 320 hp. However, the Golf R gets standard all-wheel drive, which is an option on the M235i.

Check out the video yourself and see what you think:

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Join the drift...

The BMW M235i is the closest to the brands roots than any other model they have in terms of performance.

To demonstrate this, BMW took several of the cars out for a little spin. Casual strollers-by in Cape Town were shocked when a busy round-a-about was conned off by police before the red BMW’s started their drifting sequence.

The “drift mob show” (as it’s known by BMW) was done to demonstrate how easily (and safely) the BMW can be drifted around and it was done with a Hollywood film crew capturing every breath-taking moment.

Have you seen the video yet? If you haven’t, it’s not something you’d want to miss so have a look here and tell us what you think by leaving a comment below, tweet us @BigMotoring or post on our Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/BigMotoringWorld.

Enjoy:

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