{"id":15217329,"date":"2026-07-19T18:31:40","date_gmt":"2026-07-19T22:31:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/bmw-m2-track-kit-hits-goodwood-festival-of-speed-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T04:34:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T08:34:04","slug":"bmw-m2-track-kit-hits-goodwood-festival-of-speed-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.inthacity.com\/news\/bmw-m2-track-kit-hits-goodwood-festival-of-speed-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"BMW M2 Track Kit Hits Goodwood Festival of Speed 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

BMW brought two very different M cars up Goodwood’s 1.16-mile hill this year: the one-off M3 Touring 24H race wagon<\/a>, and a regular G87 M2 wearing the new M Performance Track Kit. The M3 Touring 24H had a number attached to its run. Driven by Jordan Pepper in Sunday’s Timed Shoot-Out, the wagon posted 46.54 seconds, good for fifth outright behind Romain Dumas’s winning Ford Super Mustang Mach-E at 41.97 seconds, a Formula E Gen4 car at 42.46 seconds, a Shadow-Chevrolet DN4 at 46.30 seconds, and a Volkswagen Polo WRX at 46.31 seconds. The outright hill record, set by Max Chilton’s McMurtry Sp\u00e9irling fan car in 2022, still stands at 39.08 seconds.<\/p>\n

The M2 didn’t run in that session. BMW entered it as one of the demonstration cars that climb the hill throughout the weekend rather than qualify for Sunday’s shootout, so there’s no timing sheet to point to for its runs, only the sight of it working its adjustable front splitter and swan-neck rear wing on the way up. That’s a fair trade for BMW. The car’s real credential arrived twelve days earlier and 500 miles away<\/a>, on a stretch of German asphalt that matters far more to the M2’s reputation than a hillclimb ever could.<\/p>\n

What Beat The M2 Around The N\u00fcrburgring? Another M2<\/h2>\n
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Photo by Hardy Mutschler \/ BMW Classic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

About a year ago, the M2 CS lapped the N\u00fcrburgring Nordschleife in 7 minutes and 25.5 seconds<\/a>, becoming the fastest production car in the compact segment and knocking the Audi RS3 off the top of the leaderboard. BMW went back to the Green Hell on May 22 for another attempt, this time with a standard M2 wearing the Track Kit rather than the pricier, lighter CS. The result: 7 minutes and 20 seconds, a half-second improvement over the car that set the record in the first place.<\/p>\n

BMW says the run came in demanding conditions, with high ambient and asphalt temperatures and oil traces reported in the T13 section. There was more time on the table.<\/p>\n

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