BMW Motorsport invited a select few automotive journalists with racing experience to travel to the Circuito de Jerez on the southern coast of Spain to test out the 2014 DTM Championship winning M4 DTM. One of those lucky journalists was Alex Lloyd from Yahoo Autos who wrote a great article on the experience.
For a quy that has quite a bit of seat time in open wheel race cars, including four years in IndyCar, he was very impressed with the performance of the M4 DTM.
The braking performance seemed to impress him the most:
"The rate at which it sheds speed is spectacular; turn 1 is a second gear, 40 mph hairpin, and you enter around 155 mph in sixth gear. First you see the 300-meter board, which you completely ignore. Then you see the 200, and you start merely contemplating the upcoming bend. At 100 meters? Nope, keep going, to around 90, where in a brief second your insides try to burst out of your throat."
And once Alex got into the corners and felt the amazing amount of downforce that the car produces:
"The car sucks to the tarmac as if it's the world's most powerful Dyson. It sticks, and you sail off into the following turn with barely a second to catch your breath."
To conclude the day, Alex had this to say about the M4 DTM:
"So the M4 DTM is something very special, and despite years of racing open wheel cars, testing a Formula One car and racing sports cars, nothing has amazed me quite like this; it looks like a variant on a production vehicle, and yet it drives like a less powerful F1 car with a roof."
This is the second year that BMW Motorsport has done this, maybe in the future we'll get an invite! We can dream! You can read the entire story on Yahoo Autos.—Nate Risch
