Video: Racing action with the BMW Z4 Coupé

  • Posted on: 1.07.2008
  • Author: Benny
  • Comments: 6

Today we have some very nice European racing action from the Nürburgring Nordschleife. The video was filmed during the 3rd lap of a 4-hour-race that took place there.

The car with the camera is a modified BMW Z4 Motorsport, but since this car "only" has about 400 horsepower the guys at Getrag decided to mount a more powerful V8-engine into the chassis. The driver, Michael Bäder, is chasing the winning car of the 24-hour-race 2007, a Porsche 911 RSR (996) from Manthey Racing.

Manthey Racing did also win the 2008-event, but this time with a 997-RSR that you can see at the beginning of this video, it is the overtaking Porsche with the yellow and green painting. The Getrag-Z4 did not participate at the 24-hour-race and the youtube-video is from a training-session in march.

Thanks to Frank Uhlig for correcting our information!

We hope you enjoy the racing action as much as we did :-)

And the Youtube version, thanks to Eric.

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6 Responses to “Video: Racing action with the BMW Z4 Coupé”

  1. Eric says:
    July 1, 2008 at 11:09 am

    Video does not work… don’t make me go to Youtube for this.

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  2. Eric says:
    July 1, 2008 at 11:21 am

    Found it.. get on the ball guys!
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=66kcmWSp_0o

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  3. Horatiu B. says:
    July 1, 2008 at 4:52 pm

    @Eric: Thanks Eric. The original ones was fixed as well, their main video was down, so we pulled another feed. But thank you again for the alternative

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  4. Mark says:
    July 1, 2008 at 11:28 pm

    Cool!!! The first video has the best video resolution I have seen of a ‘ring lap so far!!! Almost HighDef!!!!

    Cheers,

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  5. Frank Uhlig says:
    July 2, 2008 at 7:54 am

    ok, you removed the directlink but the complete text is bullshit.
    the 3rd. lap from june 21st. 2008 you can see at http://www.motorsportvideo.tv.
    it was a 4h-race, not the 24h-race.
    the getrag bmw z4 with the v8-engine was not startet at the 24h-race in 2008. the car you mean is a Z4 from schubert-motorsport. this car was on position 3 and crashed.
    the youtube video is a lap from march 2008, this was only a testrun, not a race.

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  6. Benny says:
    July 2, 2008 at 8:59 am

    Thank you Frank, I updated the text, we mixed some things up with this, sorry.

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