In the late ‘70s, BMW and Lamborghini teamed up to
produce a new racing car, but Lambo eventually pulled out of the deal, leaving
BMW to finish what it had started. The result was the M1, BMW’s first-ever
mass-produced mid-engine automobile, and the spiritual precursor to the modern
i8.
Following the release of the M1, BMW went about
setting up a new one-make race series, eventually creating the M1 Procar
Championship. Pitting world-class drivers from a variety of different series
against one another, including competitors from Formula 1, the World Sportscar
Championship, and the European Touring Car Championship, among others, Procar
was a specular, albeit short-lived series, and now we can see what a modern
version might look like with the above-featured rendering.
