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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