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BMW Driving Instructor in M5 Sets New World Record for Longest Drift

Ladies and Gentlemen drivers, we are informing you that BMW has just taken the crown for the world’s longest drift. A BMW driving instructor in the US has set a new World Record for the longest continuous drift.
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Johan Schwartz, who works at the BMW Performance Center near Greenville in South Carolina used a stock BMW M5 with a M-DCT gearbox to achieve the feat. The BMW instructor managed to humiliate the previous record, a 3.6 mile (5.7 km) run that took place in Abu Dhabi in February this year, by no less than 47.7 miles (76.8 km).

The rear-wheel drive play saw the M5 completing 322.5 laps of a skid pad that measures 841 feet () in circumference. The surface was wet at first, but eventually the M5 also drifted in the dry, generating a hefty amount of smoke, as you can see in the clip below.

Our say: anybody want to beat Schwartz’s 51.3 mile (82.5 km) record?

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