IT’S EARLY APRIL AT THE NÜRBURGRING. BMW’S marketing department have hired the Nordschleife exclusively between the hours of 8am and 4.30pm and have their eyes on setting some impressive lap times. In a workshop nearby, the cars are being prepped. The priority is the new M2, but the M division feels that the M4 CSL and M5 CS have plenty of time left in them. Their previous runs were heavily compromised by patches of damp and a mulchy leaf cocktail. I would love to be a fly on the wall for this little adventure. Who doesn’t want to see how these Nürburgring lap times are achieved? Even those windbags who moan about the ‘relevance’ of the Ring.
Yet for all the excitement I’m in a darkened room, dreading opening the curtains. You see, whilst a road car lap time programme operates from one corner of the Nordschleife car park, I’ll be on the other side testing a new M4 GT4
