- Colin Edwards wins BMW Z4 M Roadster
- BMW continues as Safety Car supplier to Motorcycle Road Racing World
Championship
The world’s fastest circuit riders will win a fast take-home pack from BMW in
2006.
BMW will contribute two awesome new M cars for the BMW M Award, as prizes for
the fastest MotoGP riders participating in the Motorcycle Road Racing World
Championship.
Colin Edwards collected the first of the prizes, a 252 kW BMW Z4 M Roadster
on Sunday March 5 for achieving the fastest time in the MotoGP tests in
Barcelona, Spain. Despite torrential rain and a number of top rider spills in
pursuit of the BMW Award, Colin Edwards stayed on top of his machine to set the
fastest time of the day, a scorching one minute 57.102 seconds.
A BMW Z4 M Coupé will go to the MotoGP rider with the fastest overall time
from all qualifying rounds at the last world championship leg in Valencia, Spain
on October 29.
In addition, BMW will again be supplying the Safety Cars for the Motorcycle
Road Racing World Championship for the next four years, thereby continuing its
commitment begun in 1999.
A BMW M5 and an M6, both delivering 507 bhp and driven by professionals, will
constitute a fast-moving and eye-catching escort to the 17-round MotoGP season,
watched by an average global audience of more than 300 million television
viewers, as well as by the up to 250,000 spectators who attend each event.
BMW will also supply the World Championship organisers, the Dorna company,
with a large fleet of additional BMW models for organisational purposes.
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