The Bavarians bid farewell to 2017 and welcomed 2018 with quite a stunt.  On December 11, BMW broke two crazy GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS on the same day.

How Bonkers? 

The first being the greatest distance vehicle drift covering just over 374 km in 8 hours and the second by sustaining the longest ever twin-vehicle drift, assisted by water covering nearly 80 km in 1 hour.

Pictured from Left to Right: Johan Schwartz, Matt Butts & Matt Mullins

Even more bonkers? 

What makes the whole stunt even more bonkers is the fact that they took inspiration from the aviation industry to achieve these results; Borrowing some parts from the latter industry and custom engineering others in collaboration with a company called Detroit Speed.  The fuel tank is not your standard pop the lid, refuel process.  It is a totally re-engineered system allowing refueling while drifting. Yes you heard it right! Drifting! One of the scenes of the movie Need For Speed depicts refueling while driving but that was in a straight line unlike what just took place on the 11th of December 2017.

To break and set the bar so high for this record, it was obvious to refuel ‘mid-air’ style.  An M5 let alone any car in the world will not be likely able to execute such  feat on a single tank of fuel.

Matt Butts from Detroit Speed latched to the F10 M5 refueling it’s successor while DRIFTING!

Watch the behind the scenes video of the absolutely crazy GUINNESS WORLD RECORDS™