Drag Race - New BMW M4 vs M440i & Lap Time Battle | 4K

Hey guys, how's it going? Welcome back to another video. Today is going to be very exciting. I've got my good friend Tony Lewis with me. Hi guys. And as you can see we have an M440i from Tony and Barry BMW and an M4 competition, the new one, G82 as a press car and behind that we've got a runway but not just the runway because we've actually got a small handling circuit which is really intriguing to me. Well Joe, I've brought along the M440 coupe you see here. I've got xDrive which is going to be excellent on this slippery track today and I've got 369 brake horsepower, 369 pound foot torque, 500 newton meters for the new guys and I've got 0-62 in 4.5 but we know that's BMW's figures. I expect the car to be quicker than that today. And I've actually tested one of those with my Racebox GPS and I managed to get it around 4 seconds relentlessly. It was 4 seconds, 4 seconds, 4.1 so it's going to be that fast on this surface. Whereas that, well let's just talk about the G82 M4 competition a little bit. They start at 76 grand on the road which is roughly £21,000 more than that. It also has a 3 litre straight six twin turbo in it, the S58 whereas that has the B58 producing 510 horsepower and 650 newton meters of torque so quite a bit more torque than your car but as we talked about it's all about getting it down the road and that car is rear wheel drive so some of you might call it a real BMW, an old-fashioned BMW. There will be an xDrive version out very soon but at the moment today rear wheel drive versus xDrive. Before we take the cars out there I just want to talk about where we are. We're actually at Drift Limits in London so there's a link in the description below. Go and check that out because I didn't know about this place and I live about half an hour away. Really cool, check them out in the description. First thing I'm going to jump in Tony's M440i, he doesn't know about this yet. I'm going to set some time laps on this little handling circuit. I'm going to take two or three laps just to get used to the car and then I'm going to push it to about 85 percent. Not too hard, I don't have a helmet and it's not about outright lap time, it's about being comfortable in the car. It'll move around a little bit but I'm going to try and be as tidy as possible and someone's going to time my last flying lap. Then I'm going to jump in the M440i and see if I can hopefully go a little bit quicker. At the end of the video we're going to jump in both cars and fire them down the runway a couple of times because I think I'm going to have a couple of excuses Tony. Yeah I think so. Tony, you don't look too happy. Let's get in the car. Okay guys, here we go. I'm in the M440i of Tony's and I haven't driven one of these for a few months so I'm going to take a couple of laps just to get used to it. I'm going to be using the paddle, so manual, and I'm going to have the sport traction, I think they call it, equivalent to the MDM which I'm going to have in the M4. The car's traction control is going to do some of the work, I'm going to do some of the work. S1, pull the paddle, M1 and off we go. Let's just get this seat right. It's a nice little tight circuit this one. Oh yes, you feel the weight of this car. I've never had one of these out on track and wow you do feel the weight pretty quickly but it's going to be interesting how this xDrive puts its power down at corners like this. I mean, relentless. So we're just going to build up, we're going to take three laps just building up. So there's one lap, you can see how short that is. I'm guessing it's going to be about 35-40 seconds, got to be patient on the throttle through here and I'm going to try and not take too many liberties with the track limits. Oh, rear end, a little bit of rear end rotation there. Good old BMW xDrive, it's not about understeer, it's about oversteer. Okay right, so we can feel where the grip levels are and I'm not going to go beyond them. So we're keep a nice tidy lap. So coming up to the start of our flying lap. Keep it very clean through here, use the torque as opposed to too greedy through here. Build up base, a bit understeer. Okay, so the tyres are already going off just after three and a half warm laps. Here we come. Well, it'll be interesting to see what sort of times we've just managed to do. It definitely felt like it was getting a bit sloppy on the third and final run. In fact, we have my good friend Jack from Auto ID here. How's it going, Jack? Yeah, good to see you. You didn't happen to time that last lap, did you? I did, yeah, I did and that was a whacking 31.01 seconds. 31.01, so 31 flat essentially. Essentially. Okay, nice. Yeah, I said about 35 seconds. The tyres, everything started to overheat on that last lap. I was getting understeer and all sorts. A bit of understeer at the end. And a bit of understeer at the end, yeah, which is always good. Okay, thanks a lot, Jack. No worries. I'm going to go and jump in the M4 and hopefully demonstrate that that's a faster car. Okay guys, here we are in the G82 M4. I have MDM switch on. So again, it's going to allow me a lovely carbon paddles. This car of course now has the ZF 8-speed gearbox, the same as the M440i. Be interesting to see what the ratios are like. Let's head on out. Again, I'm going to take it easy for three laps and then build up the pace. Instantly, this feels like a completely different car. Like totally different. Yes, I can feel this rear wheel drive, but let's get some heat in those tyres. The front end, and it's pacing a straight line. That's what I thought. This is why this test is interesting, because although the M440i might run it very close in a drag race, around a circuit like this, the front end grip is just unreal. Unreal. On a totally different stratosphere. Okay, here we come to the end of our third lap. This is going to be the first time lap. Let's try and keep it quite tidy. Just feels so much quicker. Sorry about the silence there. Maybe focusing a lot more just because this car was a lot faster. I'm guessing that's going to be more like a 27 and a half, 28 seconds. The amount of extra grip this car had, it was night and day. Honestly, the front end especially just gave you so much confidence. I'm guessing it's going to be around 28 seconds. Let's see what my good friend Jack says. I'm guessing 28 seconds. 28.4. It just felt like on a completely different animal. It looks on a completely different level. Obviously, if you had to visually, you can see. It's just, you know what? The biggest difference I found was the lack of front end grip in that car. After two or three laps, suddenly there's nothing. You couldn't push it because you had no brakes and no steering. Whereas in this, so what's that? That's two and a half seconds, right? Two and a half seconds over 30 seconds. That's five seconds over a minute. That's 10 seconds over a two minute circuit. That's a big time difference. Even if this car does get smoked down the drag race, I think it's done itself proud up to this point. Next thing is the drag race. Cheers, Jack. Thanks a lot. Okay, guys, here we are on the drag strip. It's going to be about 300 meters, so about a fifth of a mile, not quite a quarter of a mile, but we should be able to achieve just over a hundred miles an hour. As I say, it's a little bit damp out there, not making excuses, but I think the xDrive is going to launch pretty hard off the line. Tony Lewis is there. I should add, I haven't got a competitive bone in my body, but today, today, Mr. Achilles, this is the day. Jack from Auto ID is out there, so here we go. Off down off the start, and the 440i is off. Oh, we're in front of the M4, baby. Victory for the M4. Who would have thought? Tony, you couldn't make that up. Honestly, mate, honestly, it just went. I'm going to go over to Rolini now and just see what he thinks, who crossed the line first, because I just, I couldn't call it. It was so close over the line. Oh, it's got to be the M440, baby. We were off the line like a scolded cat. No, by car. Wow. Okay, so my good friend, John Halbrook, just showed me that across the line, it was in fact the M440 that did it just by a car length, but that's not too bad because about 50 meters down, the M440 was gone, and we did reel him in. We've just got to try and get a better start, so let's see. Round two, here we go. Well, you see, it's all about the traction in your Michelin Pilot 4S, I will add. I'm on Bridgestone Turanzas, guys. I mean, middle of the road tire or what? I've got Coldplay on my car. He's got Billy Eilish. Right, here we go, guys. Second run, just waiting for Jack to give us the thumbs up. Better launch, better launch. There we go. There we go. Well, Tony, I don't think we need to go over to Rollini to get a photo finish for that one. Oh, I could see the horsepower coming that time. Oh, you had me really quickly. Obviously, you had a bit more heat in the rear tires, and something you might not know about these new G80 and G82s, Tony, is they actually launch. When you activate launch control, they launch in second gear. Yeah, that's astonishing in that case. Right, well, let's have a third one for good luck, but I think that was a pretty close run, and the conditions have dried up a little bit, so we'll have one more for shits and giggles. Okay, here we go. Last and final run. Jack is going to give us the starting orders. Oh, my God, I can't call that one. Oh, Tony, I got massive amounts of wheel spin, and just the car, the diff did such a good job, and the traction control would have just sorting it out. I wasn't going left and right, but it was just about keeping you in pitch. I think I might have beaten you. Buddy, buddy, that was really, really close, really close. I thought I had you. I was off the line and just got you at the beginning, but towards the end there, that was it. You were just back in it, but I think I almost ran out of road. I actually had a little code brown moment. Guys, well, that was the last and final run. Oh, look at that. So, half a car length? Yeah. Wow, that was close. Did you get me on the line? It was really close. Again, I just got away before him, and you can see it comes level, and then this, I don't know if it's the gearing, but this seems to pull away just for a second, but then that power just comes in. It's like, it must be the gearing between the two. Oh, my God. Well, that's a fag paper. Yeah. It really is. Well, hopefully you've enjoyed that comparison. I think it's a bit more interesting than just running the two cars down the runway. It's pretty obvious that the M440i is very quick out of the gates, as you would expect, xDrive and all, but this car, it launches in second, does a very good job of finding grip, and once it does find grip, once you've selected third gear, it's on a mission, and it really reels that car in, but value for money, £21,000 less, the M440i off the average set of traffic lights is probably going to be as quick, if not quicker. It's only once you get to big speed, sort of 70, 80 miles an hour onwards, this just reels it in, and wow, it's fast, very, very fast. Guys, thanks so much for watching. I hope you've enjoyed this video. There'll be more videos like this coming on the channel very, very soon. Take it easy, and I'll see you soon. Great little car, the M440i. I tell you what, for something that's £20,000 cheaper, there's not a lot in it, so don't ever feel this is the little brother. It's the little brother. Who am I kidding? Good? That was so much fun, buddy!