{"id":525492,"date":"2010-04-12T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.autoblog.com\/2010\/04\/12\/gsr-autosport-bmw-350r-part-iv-our-inaugural-event-begins-wit\/"},"modified":"2010-04-12T16:00:00","modified_gmt":"2010-04-12T20:00:00","slug":"gsr-autosport-bmw-350r-part-iv-our-inaugural-event-begins-with-a-drift-a-snap-and-a-shatter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/525492","title":{"rendered":"GSR Autosport BMW 350R: Part IV – Our inaugural event begins with a drift, a snap and a shatter"},"content":{"rendered":"

Filed under: Motorsports<\/a>, Performance<\/a>, BMW<\/a>, Specialty<\/a>, Racing<\/a><\/p>\n

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GSR Autosport 350R – Click above to watch the progress of the season<\/small><\/em><\/strong><\/div>\n

\nFormula DRIFT is recognized as the North American professional drifting championship series. Autoblog has been invited behind-the-scenes with GSR Autosport, and their driver Michael Essa, as the team builds, tests and campaigns an all-new V10-powered BMW<\/a> 350R during the 2010 racing season. This is the fourth installment in our series (see Part I<\/a>, Part II<\/a> and Part III<\/a>) as we follow the team throughout the development, testing and race season.<\/em> <\/p>\n

The wail of BMW’s V10 bouncing off the limiter at redline is deafening – especially coming out of two straight pipes – so it’s unlikely that anyone heard the steel lower control arm on the front right of the 350R shatter. Michael Essa, manning the M5-powered 3 Series, certainly didn’t. The run had been going well, just like the ones before it, when all of a sudden the BMW unexpectedly snapped off its line and careened directly into the tire barrier at speed. The incident would wreak havoc on our debut weekend at Formula Drift. <\/p>\n

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Filed under: Motorsports, Performance, BMW, Specialty, Racing GSR Autosport 350R – Click above to watch the progress of the season Formula DRIFT is recognized as the North American professional drifting championship series. Autoblog has been invited behind-the-scenes with GSR Autosport, and their driver Michael Essa, as the team builds, tests and campaigns an all-new V10-powered […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525492","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525492","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=525492"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525492\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=525492"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=525492"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=525492"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}