At every motorcycle Grand Prix a safety car
with a doctor and a senior marshal aboard follows the field around the
circuit for that ultra-dangerous first lap and then stands by throughout
the race to provide immediate response in case of a serious crash. For a number of years now BMW has been
providing safety cars for MotoGP, notable among them specially equipped 1
Series M coupés and X6M crossovers, but even the fastest bikes in the
world are unlikely to run away from this latest one, first seen at the
Nurburgring 24 Hour endurance race at the weekend.
It's an M6 coupé in traditional arctic white,
with BMW's signature stripes in red and two shades of blue; special
equipment includes an extended front splitter, a distinctive gloss black
grille, a Tijuana Taxi light bar and a seriously boy-racerish rear
wing. BMW hasn't said anything about performance
modifications but, given that an M6 coupé comes with a 412kW/680Nm,
twin-turbo, 4.4-litre V8 and a seven-speed M double-clutch transmission
as standard and is good for 0-110kmh in 4.2 seconds, it probably doesn't
need any, beyond a set of sticky rubber and remapping the engine
management to disable the 250km/h speed limiter.
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