- BMW M Power for the fastest qualifier in the MotoGP.
- The winner’s car in 2018: the exclusive BMW M3 CS (combined
consumption: 8.5 l/100 km; combined CO2 emissions: 198 g/km*) in
Frozen Dark Blue. - Unveiling of the car at the Spanish Grand Prix in Jerez de la Frontera.
Jerez de la Frontera. 2018 is the 20th
season with BMW M as the “Official Car of MotoGP” – and in keeping,
BMW M GmbH presents a real highlight in the BMW M Award in their
anniversary year. The best qualifier in the MotoGP can look forward to
an exclusive BMW M3 CS in Frozen Dark Blue at the end of the season.
This year’s winner’s car is particularly special since the BMW M3 CS
is a special edition limited to 1,200 units worldwide. The BMW M Award
winner’s car for 2018 was officially unveiled at the Spanish Grand
Prix in Jerez de la Frontera this Saturday.
The BMW M Award has long been an integral part of the BMW M GmbH
commitment to the MotoGP, and it will be presented for the
16th time in 2018. Since 2003, the MotoGP rider with the
best results in qualifying has been rewarded with an exclusive,
individually designed BMW M car at the end of the season. As with the
scoring system for the race, the riders receive points for their
positions in qualifying at each Grand Prix weekend. The rider who has
picked up the most points at the end of the season wins the coveted
BMW M Award.
“BMW M GmbH has outdone itself once again with the selection of the
BMW M Award winner’s car in its anniversary season,” said Pau
Serracanta, Managing Director of the Commercial Department of Dorna
Sports, at the unveiling. “The new BMW M3 CS is an impressive
high-performance car, and I am confident that the prospect of this
fantastic prize will provide our riders with even more motivation to
give it their all in qualifying. We are excited to see who will claim
this car as their own at the end of the season. The 20th
season as ‘Official Car of MotoGP’ and already the 16th BMW
M Award: We are delighted with the long-standing and successful
partnership with BMW M.”
“It goes without saying that 2018, as our anniversary season in the
MotoGP, is something very special to us,” added Vladimir Bistrivoda,
head of MotoGP collaboration at BMW M GmbH. “Which is why we are
excited, in our exclusive high-performance limousine BMW M3 CS, to be
able to present another very special model from our range of products
as the BMW M Award winner’s car. It makes us proud that the BMW M
Award has been a coveted award for many years among the MotoGP family
– and we want to say thank you for this appreciation by choosing
highlights such as the BMW M3 CS as winner’s cars.”
The new BMW M3 CS is the most powerful production vehicle ever in the
M3 series. It takes just 3.9 seconds to accelerate from 0 to 100 km/h.
Its powerful M TwinPower turbo inline-six-cylinder engine delivers a
performance of 460 hp and a torque of 600 Nm. A 7-speed M dual clutch
transmission with Drivelogic takes care of the power transmission in
the BMW M Award winner’s car. The adaptive M suspension of the BMW M3
CS guarantees the highest dynamic handling in every situation. The
already sporty appearance of the car is highlighted by the paintwork
in Frozen Dark Blue, the full leather, fine-grain Merino bicolour
upholstery, as well as further fittings highlights such as the M
steering wheel in Alcantara.
The BMW M Award is one of the many BMW M activities as the “Official
Car of MotoGP”. The record holder is Marc Márquez, who has already
claimed the BMW M Award five times in a row. Valentino Rossi and Casey
Stoner each have three wins to their name. Jorge Lorenzo has been
honoured as the best qualifier twice to date while Sete Gibernau and
Nicky Hayden have each won the award once.
For more information about BMW M GmbH and the involvement as the
“Official Car of MotoGP”, see: www.bmw-m.com
BMW M GmbH.
BMW M GmbH is a 100 per cent subsidiary of BMW AG. With its products
and services in the business areas of BMW M Automobiles and BMW M
Performance Automobiles, BMW Individual, M Sports Options and
Packages, BMW Driving Experience as well as Rescue and Operational
Vehicles, it is geared towards customers with particularly high
aspirations in terms of the performance, exclusivity and individual
style of their vehicle. Based in Munich, the company was founded in
1972 as BMW Motorsport GmbH. Since then, the letter M has become
synonymous all over the world for success in motor racing and for the
fascination of high-performance sports cars for road use.
* Fuel consumption and CO2 figures are provisional, based
on the EU test cycle and may vary depending on the tyre format specified.
Further information on official fuel consumption figures, specific
CO2 emission values and the electric power consumption of
new passenger cars is included in the following guideline: “Leitfaden
über Kraftstoffverbrauch, die CO2-Emissionen und den
Stromverbrauch neuer Personenkraftwagen” (Guideline for fuel
consumption, CO2 emissions and electric power consumption
of new passenger cars), which can be obtained from all dealerships,
from Deutsche Automobil Treuhand GmbH (DAT), Hellmuth-Hirth-Str. 1,
73760 Ostfildern-Scharnhausen and at http://www.dat.de/en/offers/publications/guideline-for-fuel-consumption.html.