Right from the start the BMW M1 was the fastest road-going sports car built in Germany, as timed by a leading car journal: In a test conducted in 1979, the BMW M1 reached a top speed of 264.7 km/h or 164.1 mph.

In short, the M1's story is wrapped up in the drawbacks of what was thought to be the best hope for a worldwide road­-racing revival during the Seventies, the silhouette car. Neerpasch and the...

In 1979, the head of BMW Motorsport, Jochen Neerpasch, devised a one-make championship using racing modified M1s. The series was created to aid BMW in building enough cars to enter the group 4 classification in the World Championship for Makes.

Powered by BMW's M88/1 straight six engine, the M1 achieved relative success on the racetrack. A total of 453 examples of the M1 were built, with 399 examples being built for the road, and 54 examples for motorsport.

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The 1979 BMW M1 Procar Championship was the inaugural season of the BMW M1 Procar Championship. The series ran as a support category to the European rounds of the 1979 Formula One season. [1]

These road cars were powered by BMW Motorsports own M88 engine, a mid-mounted 3.5-litre inline-six, that produced around 277 horsepower, making their road-going M1’s one of the fastest sports cars of its time.

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Instead the M1 was equipped with the familiar straight six out of the 3.0 CSL racing cars. Displacing just under 3.5 litres, it produced a hefty 277 bhp in road tune. Mated to a five speed gearbox, the 24-valve engine was mounted midships …