The One: We race the masterful mid-engine BMW supercar around Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca

摘要

Vintage? Yes. Historic? Very much so. Old? Not even a little bit. This BMW race car is alive, a machine with a shrieking soul. It vibrates all around me, as if there's a live-wire tremor radiating from the center of the car all the way to its fiberglass skin. Yet the chassis is rock solid, so hooked up to asphalt that I can't get it to pivot even if I snap off the gas while cornering. I muscle the shift lever of the five-speed from second gear into third, and the straight-six flexes its rough power. The sound of the 470-horsepower lump behind my head is magnificent.