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The humble BMW M2 has just pulled off a proper giant-killing act. Armed with the new M Performance Track Kit, a standard M2 has lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife quicker than the range-topping M2 CS. It managed the feat without a single extra horsepower. Aero and chassis tweaks did all the talking.
The clock stopped at 7:25.068 over the 12.94-mile lap. That is half a second inside the mark set by the harder, more powerful M2 CS. BMW says the run took place on 22 May and was verified independently by TÜV Rheinland. Conditions were far from perfect, either. High track temperatures and oil traces at the T13 section made the attempt trickier than a clean lap would have been.
The clever part is where the pace comes from. The standard M2 keeps its 473 bhp S58 twin-turbo straight-six, untouched. The Track Kit instead bolts on an adjustable front splitter, dive planes and a swan-neck rear wing with a dedicated Race mode. A set of motorsport-derived coilovers drops the coupe by 20mm and offers multi-stage damping. Better still, BMW has kept it all road legal, so owners can drive to the circuit and home again.
Development was a genuine work effort. BMW M engineers worked hand in glove with the M Performance Parts team, and the aero package was honed in the firm’s own wind tunnel. Nürburgring specialist Jörg Weidinger, himself a record holder, oversaw the fine-tuning. The kit lands first in Germany rather than the United States.
The bigger question is what this signals. The G87 M2 is roughly mid-life, and BMW has form for marking that moment with sharper, more focused specials. Chatter about an eventual M2 CSL simply refuses to fade. For now, the Track Kit hands ordinary M2 owners a factory route to CS-beating pace. Whether a full-fat CSL follows remains wide open.
