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SMOKE SHOW

“SOME ARE REFERRING TO THIS GROUP AS THE CLOWNS OF OUR WHEELED CIRCUS”

here’s no science here, although there could be. We could put cones out to measure the longest skid. Could have got the M3 over, as that’s got a drift analyser that tells you how many seconds and yards you’ve been sliding for, then seen if anything could beat it. But we don’t need to do that, because it’s immediately clear that if this is just a question of what does the best skids, for how long, at the daftest angles, while creating the most smoke, there’s one runaway winner. The BMW M5 CS. How has BMW made so much Pirelli last so little time? “It can’t,” as one of the team puts it, “even get out

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