BMW M5 road car vs BMW Williams F1

You have to love this Car programs that show you footage of something that you will know the outcome off, just look at what Fifth Gear in the UK have done. They decided to race a BMW M5 road car, against a BMW Williams F1, now I am no rocket scientist but I do not the outcome even before I watched the video.

Firstly driving the 200MPH BMW M5 road car was Vicki Butler-Henderson, and before you start saying that the BMW M5 is limited to 155MPH, this did not have any such limiter as it was on the Rockingham racetrack in the UK.

Driving the BMW Williams F1 was Tiff Needell, which does can reach speeds of 220MPH with a low down force setting.

But for this test, Williams could have maximum down force and would still have won the race, let’s face it there is nothing that can beat an F1 car around a race track.

The F1 car is over 30 seconds a lap quicker than the M5, and while the BMW M5 averages about 74MPH a lap the BMW Williams F1 is averaging 102MPH a lap.