By Colin Wood
May 7, 2021
This video just might have it all: a screaming V8, loud turbo whooshes and a view of the track that’s about as close as possible without getting road rash on your face.
The footage comes courtesy of BimmerWorld while exhibiting Bergsteiger, its 1000-plus-horsepower E36-chassis Pikes Peak racer, at the Optima Hi-Performance Expo at Circuit of the Americas.
Read more about this insane machine here, and look out for it at this year’s Pikes Peak International Hillclimb on June 27.
5/6/21 12:39 p.m.
I like to put GoPros on the splitter, it's really fun to watch. My term for it is "squirrel cam".
Not COTA, not a kilohorse car, not a pro driver - but they're always fun to watch.
Targa Newfoundland stage. Doesn't look that fast but we were the fastest Open Class car.
High Plains Raceway with the little 5.3 but a better intake setup. This is mostly for the noise :) The camera is approximately a foot below the air filter with nothing in between.
5/6/21 1:58 p.m.
The soundtrack from that second video is intoxicating.
5/6/21 1:59 p.m.
It's the last thing an oxygen molecule hears before having a very eventful day.
5/7/21 10:04 a.m.
Bumper cams count? Lines are scruffy and its about a tenth of the whp but has sweet glorious boost noises.
Lumsden Go-Kart Track, SK. Turbocharged Intrepid.
5/7/21 10:28 a.m.
In reply to DjGreggieP :
Blow-off noises like that always make me smile.
I need to buy or build a turbocharged car. I don't even want that much boost, I just want turbo noises.
5/11/21 12:05 p.m.
How about some Andy Lally street luge action?
5/11/21 12:39 p.m.
Something's wrong with that video, I can't hear the constant screaming.
There aren't many sports where your feet are aerodynamic aids.
5/13/21 11:22 a.m.
In reply to Keith Tanner :
I know, right? Crazy AF.
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