The German car manufacturer BMW is studying a weather storm of Monterey’s car of this year at Pebble Beach by unveiling its latest customer race car: the M4 GT3. With its plethora of appendages Aero and this beautiful rear wing, it is clear that the M4 GT3 belongs to the race track. Based on a BMW M4 competition coupe of 2021, the most recent M4 GT3 replaces the M6 GT3, and is the last member of the BMW race race portfolio, which joins the M2 CS Racing, M8 GTE and the M4 GT4 .
“The new BMW M4 contest offers the perfect base for the BMW M4 GT3, whose engine has been designed from the start to use a race circuit,” said Markus Flasch, CEO of BMW M GmbH. The M4 Competition Coupe of the Road is a more spicative and more flashier version of a M4 standard. It has a two-liter six-liter six-cylinder engine with optimized cylinder head design and a forged crankshaft, pumping 503 horsepower and 479 pounds of torque.
This is enough to propel the car from zero to 60 mph in 3.8 seconds. However, the development of BMW engineers went beyond pure speed: instead, the target of objectives included conducting, operation and profitability. The latter is essential that longer maintenance intervals and lower life cycle costs for engine and transmission are crucial for gaining racing and keep your running team.
Starting with the TwinPower TWINPower TwinPower Turbo Competition Cup M4, BMW gave the online engine-six a personalized intake with double accelerator valves, dry sump lubrication, engine-mounted oil tanks with engine. Integrated oil and water exchangers, and a load-split exhaust system. Other changes such as GT3-specific motor fixtures and rear torsion vibration shock absorbers allow the engine to hum the engine while reducing vibrations to increase driver’s stamina. BMW also bricked with the engine installation angle to improve weight distribution.
All said, the revised Rinline-Six is 40 kilos (88 pounds) lighter than the V8 engine in the outgoing M6 GT3, despite a new power. “This emphasizes how the car and the race car development always go hand in hand at BMW M GmbH,” Flasch added.
The BMW M4 GT3 has up to 590 horses and 516 feet-feet ready to be eliminated, making it the most powerful engine six times located at a BMW racing car. The power goes exclusively on the rear wheels via an Xtrac six-speed electrohydraulic gearbox with direction-mounted pallet changers, a revised version of the BMW M8 GTE racing adjustment gearbox. On the style before, it has the presence to match its new sense of power.
The M4 GT3 is three inches wider on each side that a m4 stock competition coupe, but it has the same design of the oversized kidney grill that attracts praise or criticism according to which you ask. However, I am in a spirit that these huge kidney grilles look quite fantastic in the M4 GT3.
As for the cabin, it has its fair share of quirk. Standard in the BMW M4 GT3 is a new air conditioning system that offers twice the cooling power as the M6 GT3. It also has a new steering wheel in conjunction with the German Manufacturer SIM Fanatec racing. This is the first of this kind that works in the real and virtual world (unless you only expect the Bentley Fanatec steering wheel for the continental GT3 Pikes peak race car), with the required buttons and switches to adjust the Radio, anti-lock brakes, traction control, windshield wipers and beverage system on the fly.
In addition, the BMW M Trach CockPit function also allows the driver to adjust the configurations of the base car (calibration of the sensor, by selecting the charging load graph, the fuel type selection, the system diagnosis, etc.. ) without connecting a laptop or with special software. The cab offers quasi-infinite adjustments for lighting and ergonomics to make life easier when the race is difficult.
The brand new BMW M4 GT3 is in its final test phases, the manufacturer has declared after connecting more than 14,000 kilometers of testing since its initial deployment in July 2020. The M4 GTS can compete in various North American race series as GT Daytona and GT Daytona Pro Course from the Sportscar IWSA Weathetech, sro GT America Championship and the SRO Fanatec GT World Challenge America’s GT category set up by AWS. Also present at the BMW Stall at the Monterey Car Week are the 2022 Alpina B8 Gran Coupe, the M5 CS and the magnificent convertible M4. That Alpina, in particular, deserves a special mention for its exclusivity and its majestic presence: a 4.4-liter bi-turbo V8 engine with 612 horses and 590 feet of torque is enough to propel it from zero to 60 mph in 3 , 3 seconds and at at a maximum speed of 201 mph.
The BMW M4 GT3 of the race race begins at $ 530,000. For $ 55,000 more, the competition package adds diagnostics as a second set of wheels, tire pressure monitoring with eight sensors, additional lighthouses, backlit door numbers, a rear camera and a day Training on the BMW M Motorsport M4 GT3 simulator. your skills. You always have time to practice (and search for a sponsor) before the first deliveries arrive at the beginning of 2022.
