BMW M2 Racecar Promises Affordability

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If you’re looking for a mode to get into racing and privation a caller vehicle, the freshly unveiled BMW M2 Racing conscionable mightiness beryllium the ticket. Equipped with a turbocharged four-cylinder motor and afloat contention kit, it’s ready to deed the track, giving you a turnkey solution to getting into motorsports.

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We cognize a batch of radical are going to beryllium confused since the street-legal M2 has a 3.0-liter inline-six. With 473-horsepower connected tap, that mill has go legendary among enthusiasts. However, for immoderate entry-level racers it’s going to beryllium excessively much, some successful show and cost.

That’s wherefore BMW borrowed the 2.0-liter turbo-four motor from the 2 Series Gran Coupe. It inactive packs a stout 313-hp and 296 lb.-ft. of torque and the mill is backed by a ZF seven-speed automatic transmission with BMW M Motorsport bundle for much assertive displacement points.

Stopping powerfulness comes via BMW M Compound discs and calipers, positive BMW M Motorsport brake pads. To guarantee accordant show during agelong races, a BMW M Motorsport brake cooling strategy is besides standard.

Also keeping things elemental and cheaper is the mechanical rear limited-slip differential. There’s a abstracted cooling strategy for it, due to the fact that this racecar is each astir reliability and durability for radical who are superior astir racing, not rich guys looking for a chill way artifact to bash a fewer blistery laps.

That’s wherefore it has an adjustable pit velocity limiter, positive BMW M Motorsport-specific thrust modes on with 10-stage adjustable M Traction Control. As an added plus, aerial conditioning is standard.

Lightweighting is of people prioritized implicit comfortableness and chill looks. There are speedy merchandise latches for the hood and trunk lid. The extortion and immoderate different parts are made of c fiber.

To assistance with regulations, the M2 Racing comes with a DMSB-certified welded information rotation cage that’s FIA compliant. Also included is simply a Sabelt GT-Am information seat, occurrence extinguisher, and FIA-homologated ATL FT3 information substance cell.

Like we said earlier, this is nary artifact but alternatively it is an entry-level racecar. That said, “cheap” is simply a comparative term. For those genuinely interested, the starting outgo of this racer is astir $111,000. Nobody said racing was a athletics for the poor, that’s for sure.

Images via BMW M Motorsport