3 posts tagged with "Motorsport"

Here is what happened.

This car did not begin as a serious project.

At first, it was only an April Fools' joke BMW posted on social media: an image that understood exactly what car fans would get excited about, a piece of brand mischief that looked likely to end the moment it was posted.

BMW really turned an M3 Touring into a race car capable of running the Nürburgring 24 Hours.

Not a static show car.

Not a wish in the comment section.

Not an absurd April Fools' post that disappeared after the day ended.

It actually went on track. In March 2026, it already made its debut in the second round of the Nürburgring Langstrecken-Serie, winning the SPX class and finishing 13th overall. It is also set to run the main Nürburgring 24 Hours race on May 16-17.

When I saw this, my first reaction was not to look up the specs.

One phrase jumped straight into my head: evil big BMW.

In racing circles, people sometimes use "evil big BMW" to tease BMW. The joke works because it is not purely an insult, and not purely praise either. It feels like something unreasonable: you know this thing may be big, heavy, fierce, and filled with a strange kind of German engineering obsession, yet you still cannot help staring at it.

The M3 Touring 24H has exactly that flavor.

Evil. Too evil.

On April 25, I played with gpt-image-2 again.

This time I did not continue making resume posters, nor did I seriously test any complex infographic. I only did a very private little thing: I generated a set of posters for several F1 drivers I like.

And once again, it hit something inside me.

On March 20, two friends and I set out from school and went to one of their homes for a small gathering. Since all of us like racing, we first stopped by a simulator shop in the afternoon, then went to the market in the evening, bought groceries, and cooked dinner ourselves. Looking back now, the day did not have any grand plan, but from the steering wheel to the stove, and then to the slightly tipsy conversation at the table, every part of it feels worth recording.