The BMW X5 that lapped the Nordshleife

["John Burrows" <jburrows@domain.elided>]

Thomas Gonnella wrote:

To Paul Begemann
Anyone out there who thinks Euro SUV's are just like their US
counterparts
should think about BWM... They tricked out one of their SUV's with an
M-Sport
kit (available to anyone with the money) and lapped the old Nurburgring
under
9 minutes. Only a turbo Porsche and various racers have ever managed
that
trick...
Thomas Gonnella

That was no publicly available X5, that X5 was a special one off done by
M-Sport.  They stuffed the motor from their Le Mans car in it, a v-12
producing around 700 bhp.  They also lowered it and replaced a lot of
the production parts with special aluminum ones.  It was also driven by
Hans Stuck.  He did a lap of the north circuit in 7.49.

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