**The Carwow Drag Race Experience**

As we arrived at our destination, we were greeted with a mixture of excitement and trepidation. Our trusty car, the BMW M340i, was set to take on its rival, Chris Watson's bike, in a thrilling drag race over the quarter mile. With carw, a popular platform for buying and selling cars, providing us with a range of options, we were confident that our vehicle would emerge victorious.

**The Bad News**

Before we began the competition, Chris shared some bad news: if you're into bikes, this might not be good news for you. The bike had been severely damaged in an accident, and it was clear that its fate was sealed. However, there was a glimmer of hope - the car would still be fueling fine after being put through its paces on Pump Fuel with high ethanol content.

**The Good News**

As we adjusted our strategy to accommodate the bike's limitations, Chris proposed an innovative idea: a rolling race. With his four-wheel drive advantage, he was confident that he could dictate the speed and gear. We had two options - either start in first or second gear, and we decided to go for the latter. As we prepared for liftoff, Chris mentioned that our car wouldn't need any additional power.

**The Launch**

With a loud roar, our car shot forward, leaving us momentarily stunned by its sheer acceleration. However, as we caught up with Chris, we realized that he had managed to weave through a challenging course, showcasing his exceptional riding skills. Despite this impressive feat, I couldn't help but notice that the bike's engine was struggling, and I feared for its structural integrity.

**The Break Test**

Feeling a bit more confident, we decided to conduct a brake test to see which machine would come to a stop at the shortest distance. With our ABS system activated, we carefully navigated the course, with Chris managing to keep up with me initially. However, as we approached the finish line, I realized that my car was experiencing some technical difficulties, causing me to lose momentum.

**The Verdict**

As we took stock of our performance, it became clear that our car had won this round, but not without its own share of issues. The bike, unfortunately, had suffered significant damage, and it seemed that the modifications made to Chris's vehicle were no match for the underlying mechanicals. With a price tag of $38,000 for the BMW, we couldn't help but wonder if the mods on the roadster were worth the cost without a reliable car to support them.

**The Aftermath**

As I reflected on our experience, it was clear that this drag race had been an unforgettable adventure. Chris's enthusiasm and dedication to his bike had earned him a spot in the leaderboard, even if he didn't quite take home the prize. As for me, I was left to ponder the importance of proper vehicle maintenance and the value placed on modifications versus reliability.

**The Experience**

Throughout this article, we've captured the excitement and humor that defines our carwow drag race experience. From the highs of crushing the competition to the lows of dealing with mechanical issues, every moment has been filled with laughter and camaraderie. If you enjoyed watching us go head-to-head on the quarter mile, be sure to subscribe and check out our other videos for more thrilling adventures.

**The Carwow Connection**

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**The Final Word**

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"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwhat will win in a drag race between a heavily tuned BMW M4 competition and a BMW m1000rr with lots of special upgrades on it though they are Factory upgrades well we're going to find out by racing them over the standing quarter mile I'm Matt Watson and you're watching carwow now let me tell you about this car normally an M4 X Drive will have a 3 l twin turbo straight 6 which puts out 510 horsepower and 650 Newt M of torque driving all four wheels for an 8-speed automatic gearbox with launch control however evolve Automotive in Luton has heavily worked on this car it's got a built engine Forge internals loads of other bits and pieces exhaust manifold two huge hybrid turbos blahy blahy blah blah blah blah blah about £35,000 worth of upgrades over the 90,000 starting price of the car itself and the result is 1,000 horsepower and 1,000 Newton M of torque still weighs the same as before just under 1.8 tons it's going to be a bit of a beast now that BMW motorcycle is just as much as a beast and so too is its Rider it's Chris North over from Bike World TV hey Chris how are you all the better for being on a Runway with you Matt 2.5 de Centigrade on a potentially icy Runway I think it's think it's cleared up now actually and quite cold in those Leathers I got my heated seat on on FYI you're rubbing it in aren't you I'll be mostly hiding behind the fairing today cuz if I sit up it's like icy needles yeah I mean the windchill factor whatever speeds you can get up to on that bike must be pretty incredible in fact what is the top speed of that bike BMW claim it to be 34 km/ hour it's well over 180 fast enough to give you a frostbite sitting here in the winds enough to give me frostbite why do you do it I don't understand bikers you see them like on days like today and they're there and all they like kit and stuff and you know they're freezing I used to ride motorbikes and no matter what you do your hands and toes are always cold aren't they yeah that is the downside but can't beat the feeling of the wind in your hair can you You' got a helmet on it's never in your hair it's it's a saying it's not really actual wind in your actual hair come on back hey we don't have to queue in traffic jams you don't nor accidented an emergency sorry listen I was a biker but I gave it up because I knew the risk was too great and my Hills were too limited anyway Chris enough chat tell me about that bike okay so this is a BMW m1000rr so it's the M Sports version of their super bike this particular one is about 38 Grand they start from £30,000 carbon fiber Wheels carbon fiber bodyw work 212 horsepower 192 kilos okay so what's the actual weight of the bike with you on it so we can get a rough power to we ratio of the bike that's a very personal question about 270 kilos with uh with me in my kit and uh and my excuse book packed in the back of my Leathers so what we'll do we'll flash up on the screen the part to weight ratio of the bike now and now we'll give you the one for the car and if you want to compare all those stats who just reeled off side by side here's the carwo stats table enjoy it to Leisure by pausing the video so Chris how do you think this is going to go today this is always an interesting one when you turned up with a modified car I'm intrigued to see if the car holds together again it's going to be down to the launch I think once we go in the bike's going to have the edge but getting off the line I watched your test run earlier and that thing is a missile so you think something might go wrong with my car but you're quite happy because obviously you've got a factory standard machine which should all be fine Straight Out of the Box proper BMW's finest engineering this is going to be absolutely brilliant fun and I'm just basically going to hope I'm either faster than you or you break down okay then Chris let's do it let's find out which is quickest over the standing quarter mile three I was that one that's definitely one n to C funny you see this thing actually launches in manual mode but the standard car will automatically change up the gears this one didn't want to and now the other element of BMW launch control systems which is working is the fact that I now have to drive for a long old way to reset launch control to be able to deploy it again note to self you're going to have to change gears manually 3 2 1 holy cow why is Quest no way near you got me that time I had you the first one yeah you definitely had me the first time because I didn't change CH from first to second I thought the car would do it and it didn't so you won One race I won that one you clearly won that one what happened I mean I had no idea I was just gone that leaves the line so quick and I was claing you back in but that's all I had half mile I'd have had here but on the quarter just wasn't quite enough let me try and get a better launch I'll see if I can push the clutch a little bit harder on this okay and see if we can get away a little bit more even do you want to know some bad news though Chris go on this wasn't performing a it's best there's a bit of a misfire in it so I think it will go quite a bit faster so whatever games you think you have to make you have to make even more we'll see we'll see anyways one each a few moments later look at this it's gone into like warm-up mode some kind of Limp team cars something always happens regardless we gone limp it's gone limp yeah and it was misfiring okay yeah we could hear it from here I've got another question for you about it when I first ran it it would Auto change in launch mode and it sort of did that on the first practice runs I did but then it was a bit sloppy how it did it was wasn't as good as a standard car so I've been changing manually but in that last run we got that kind of Mis VI pretty bad it's in Lim now so we're going to need to flash it and do something with it okay let's flash it I'm going to get out I'm going to put my coat on I'm going to try and keep warm chis whack Tire warmers yeah you go whack your tire warmers on it's one each right he thinks he can go quicker so we need you to reset this and we'll get it working and we'll win that always happens Hey guys you're on your phones you're just doing a little bit of what bit of Instagram bit Tik Tok data loging what is the data login showing just done a launch in the top of second it breaks up when you say break up what does that mean like misfire misfire okay do you think you're going to be able to fix it we're going to be able to run it or do you think we're going to have to retire it I re we can fix it how long do you reckon that's going to take get done next 5 10 minutes oh okay get it ready cuz I'm a very impatient person I know this he's definitely on Tik Tok it's vertical you're like landscape okay eventually okay let's see if they fix this car before I race it so I'm just going to hold on the brake no it's not happy oh I got an idea stability control off oh we're on we're happy ooh excellent excellent that feels strong 3 2 1 W oh yes where is he I thought you said yours was broken it was broken and then it wasn't broken uh uh and it's going quite well now that did not look like broken they uploaded some software it was just to do fueling or something but now it's working perfectly how about your bike so I was gentle with the clutch on the launch but then after that where I normally would reel you back in I was on the limiter no clutch slip up through the gears I just couldn't pull it in totally honest with you Chris I had no idea where you were I'm just concentrating on going forwards cuz this thing weaves a out the place oh wow they've got slightly wider tires on the back than standard and on the front and I think it messes with the car's differential and it just causes it to it's like doing this thing where it's almost like it's slipping and sliding but it's not just something OD it's very terrifying so I'm just like come on just go straight please and it did of with that in mind should we do a roll on then no no before that we need to know about the actual times on this let's find out how quick this actually was and how not so quick that was so then what exactly happened well the m41 it completed the standing quter Mile in 99.9 seconds the bike took 10.4 seconds want to sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price then head to car while to have over 4,000 trusted dealers ready to bid on it in an online auction first enter your car's registration to get an instant approximate valuation then if you want to proceed give us some more details and upload some photos and we'll help you set a fair reserve price for your car that's the minimum amount you'd be happy to sell it for once you've done that we'll enter your car into an online auction when the auction's over we'll let you know the result and the dealer with the winning bid will be in touch to arrange easy payment and free collection of your car 93% of sellers surveyed said they got the price they expected or more through carw the best bit is it's completely free I put a l in the description of this video and the Ping comment to take you directly to carw where over 4,000 dealers are ready to bid on your car or you can just click on the pop out bner that should be appearing in the top right hand corner of the screen now alternatively just Google help me carwow and we will help you sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price on with the video do you want the good news or the bad news bad news the bad news is that if you're into bikes you're feeling pretty bad about things right now because this destroyed the bike good news is it's fueling fine now what did you do so we had to adjust the map because of the timing okay because we drove it here on Pump Fuel and then we had to put raise fuel into it so the ethanol content slowly Rising right so this is not a kind of problem that a customer would face really it's your faults for not doing they didn't do their homework I'm already joking we're going to do a rolling race let's do a rolling race right then Chris now youve got an option here we're going to race over the quarter M it takes a launch out of it my four-wheel drive Advantage now you can dictate the speed and the gear what do you want to do do you want to do it in first do you want to do it in second how do you want to play it let's do second yeah and let's do 30 30 so you actually set the pace yeah and I'll look at you and we'll have a stter start us like a normal race when we're pretty much on the start line and we'll race over the quar mile you haven't put any more power in that have you no no need more power let me get into a second here we go get level with Chris Watson come on get level get level get level Watson get level get level get level 2 1 oh it's weaving like a mad thing there I can see him I don't think he's going to catch me now though oh dear sounds like that sounds like a big end you killed it I was going to say is that the big end it sounds something it could be an exhaust manifold blow did you notice a lack of power yeah it didn't go like I thought it would oh bugger not only have you beaten me you've killed my bike start it up again I think that's broken and your machine is not tuned or anything in any way that's that's a stock one do you know what you can still do though brake test do you want to do a brake test let's do a break test do you have abs I've got abs and I've turned into racetrack mode so it's not on the back wheels it's only on the front wheel so you don't lock up the rear I I can look up the rear and I can stopy yeah but I can't look the front oh got it right I got it completely the wrong way rounded night doof okay let's do this Brak test and see what happens which machine will stop at the shortest distance I'm kind of betting on this here we go here comes the line anyway let's find out oh for a split second then we were kind of level but no let's go say haha to Chris northover ha okay so there wasn't a lot in that there wasn't a lot and we were sort of breaking together at one phase that I thought he might actually beat me but no not in the end in fact the only thing he won was when I completely cocked up the launch so I just think it's fair to say that my BMW is better than yours and yours has actually broken worse than mine because my break was just some software glitch yeah mine's making a horrible noise yours is making some horrible noise how much is your bike again 30 grand for a base model this one's just about 38 so basically the price of that bike is the same as the mods on this car and the mods on their Road are no good without the car underneath no exactly anyway Chris it's been a huge laugh as ever and well done for riding the ass off that bike so much so that you broke it I've got to go and explain that now I'll let you go and do that thank you and uh what a ridiculous car it is ridiculous anyway I hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like and if you want to watch some other videos then just click on the Windows just click on the Windows okay just go click on them and if you click on the actual carwow logo you can go to the carwow drag race leaderboard and compare this cars quter mile times against everything else wherever drag raced thanks for watchingwhat will win in a drag race between a heavily tuned BMW M4 competition and a BMW m1000rr with lots of special upgrades on it though they are Factory upgrades well we're going to find out by racing them over the standing quarter mile I'm Matt Watson and you're watching carwow now let me tell you about this car normally an M4 X Drive will have a 3 l twin turbo straight 6 which puts out 510 horsepower and 650 Newt M of torque driving all four wheels for an 8-speed automatic gearbox with launch control however evolve Automotive in Luton has heavily worked on this car it's got a built engine Forge internals loads of other bits and pieces exhaust manifold two huge hybrid turbos blahy blahy blah blah blah blah blah about £35,000 worth of upgrades over the 90,000 starting price of the car itself and the result is 1,000 horsepower and 1,000 Newton M of torque still weighs the same as before just under 1.8 tons it's going to be a bit of a beast now that BMW motorcycle is just as much as a beast and so too is its Rider it's Chris North over from Bike World TV hey Chris how are you all the better for being on a Runway with you Matt 2.5 de Centigrade on a potentially icy Runway I think it's think it's cleared up now actually and quite cold in those Leathers I got my heated seat on on FYI you're rubbing it in aren't you I'll be mostly hiding behind the fairing today cuz if I sit up it's like icy needles yeah I mean the windchill factor whatever speeds you can get up to on that bike must be pretty incredible in fact what is the top speed of that bike BMW claim it to be 34 km/ hour it's well over 180 fast enough to give you a frostbite sitting here in the winds enough to give me frostbite why do you do it I don't understand bikers you see them like on days like today and they're there and all they like kit and stuff and you know they're freezing I used to ride motorbikes and no matter what you do your hands and toes are always cold aren't they yeah that is the downside but can't beat the feeling of the wind in your hair can you You' got a helmet on it's never in your hair it's it's a saying it's not really actual wind in your actual hair come on back hey we don't have to queue in traffic jams you don't nor accidented an emergency sorry listen I was a biker but I gave it up because I knew the risk was too great and my Hills were too limited anyway Chris enough chat tell me about that bike okay so this is a BMW m1000rr so it's the M Sports version of their super bike this particular one is about 38 Grand they start from £30,000 carbon fiber Wheels carbon fiber bodyw work 212 horsepower 192 kilos okay so what's the actual weight of the bike with you on it so we can get a rough power to we ratio of the bike that's a very personal question about 270 kilos with uh with me in my kit and uh and my excuse book packed in the back of my Leathers so what we'll do we'll flash up on the screen the part to weight ratio of the bike now and now we'll give you the one for the car and if you want to compare all those stats who just reeled off side by side here's the carwo stats table enjoy it to Leisure by pausing the video so Chris how do you think this is going to go today this is always an interesting one when you turned up with a modified car I'm intrigued to see if the car holds together again it's going to be down to the launch I think once we go in the bike's going to have the edge but getting off the line I watched your test run earlier and that thing is a missile so you think something might go wrong with my car but you're quite happy because obviously you've got a factory standard machine which should all be fine Straight Out of the Box proper BMW's finest engineering this is going to be absolutely brilliant fun and I'm just basically going to hope I'm either faster than you or you break down okay then Chris let's do it let's find out which is quickest over the standing quarter mile three I was that one that's definitely one n to C funny you see this thing actually launches in manual mode but the standard car will automatically change up the gears this one didn't want to and now the other element of BMW launch control systems which is working is the fact that I now have to drive for a long old way to reset launch control to be able to deploy it again note to self you're going to have to change gears manually 3 2 1 holy cow why is Quest no way near you got me that time I had you the first one yeah you definitely had me the first time because I didn't change CH from first to second I thought the car would do it and it didn't so you won One race I won that one you clearly won that one what happened I mean I had no idea I was just gone that leaves the line so quick and I was claing you back in but that's all I had half mile I'd have had here but on the quarter just wasn't quite enough let me try and get a better launch I'll see if I can push the clutch a little bit harder on this okay and see if we can get away a little bit more even do you want to know some bad news though Chris go on this wasn't performing a it's best there's a bit of a misfire in it so I think it will go quite a bit faster so whatever games you think you have to make you have to make even more we'll see we'll see anyways one each a few moments later look at this it's gone into like warm-up mode some kind of Limp team cars something always happens regardless we gone limp it's gone limp yeah and it was misfiring okay yeah we could hear it from here I've got another question for you about it when I first ran it it would Auto change in launch mode and it sort of did that on the first practice runs I did but then it was a bit sloppy how it did it was wasn't as good as a standard car so I've been changing manually but in that last run we got that kind of Mis VI pretty bad it's in Lim now so we're going to need to flash it and do something with it okay let's flash it I'm going to get out I'm going to put my coat on I'm going to try and keep warm chis whack Tire warmers yeah you go whack your tire warmers on it's one each right he thinks he can go quicker so we need you to reset this and we'll get it working and we'll win that always happens Hey guys you're on your phones you're just doing a little bit of what bit of Instagram bit Tik Tok data loging what is the data login showing just done a launch in the top of second it breaks up when you say break up what does that mean like misfire misfire okay do you think you're going to be able to fix it we're going to be able to run it or do you think we're going to have to retire it I re we can fix it how long do you reckon that's going to take get done next 5 10 minutes oh okay get it ready cuz I'm a very impatient person I know this he's definitely on Tik Tok it's vertical you're like landscape okay eventually okay let's see if they fix this car before I race it so I'm just going to hold on the brake no it's not happy oh I got an idea stability control off oh we're on we're happy ooh excellent excellent that feels strong 3 2 1 W oh yes where is he I thought you said yours was broken it was broken and then it wasn't broken uh uh and it's going quite well now that did not look like broken they uploaded some software it was just to do fueling or something but now it's working perfectly how about your bike so I was gentle with the clutch on the launch but then after that where I normally would reel you back in I was on the limiter no clutch slip up through the gears I just couldn't pull it in totally honest with you Chris I had no idea where you were I'm just concentrating on going forwards cuz this thing weaves a out the place oh wow they've got slightly wider tires on the back than standard and on the front and I think it messes with the car's differential and it just causes it to it's like doing this thing where it's almost like it's slipping and sliding but it's not just something OD it's very terrifying so I'm just like come on just go straight please and it did of with that in mind should we do a roll on then no no before that we need to know about the actual times on this let's find out how quick this actually was and how not so quick that was so then what exactly happened well the m41 it completed the standing quter Mile in 99.9 seconds the bike took 10.4 seconds want to sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price then head to car while to have over 4,000 trusted dealers ready to bid on it in an online auction first enter your car's registration to get an instant approximate valuation then if you want to proceed give us some more details and upload some photos and we'll help you set a fair reserve price for your car that's the minimum amount you'd be happy to sell it for once you've done that we'll enter your car into an online auction when the auction's over we'll let you know the result and the dealer with the winning bid will be in touch to arrange easy payment and free collection of your car 93% of sellers surveyed said they got the price they expected or more through carw the best bit is it's completely free I put a l in the description of this video and the Ping comment to take you directly to carw where over 4,000 dealers are ready to bid on your car or you can just click on the pop out bner that should be appearing in the top right hand corner of the screen now alternatively just Google help me carwow and we will help you sell your car quickly easily and for a fair price on with the video do you want the good news or the bad news bad news the bad news is that if you're into bikes you're feeling pretty bad about things right now because this destroyed the bike good news is it's fueling fine now what did you do so we had to adjust the map because of the timing okay because we drove it here on Pump Fuel and then we had to put raise fuel into it so the ethanol content slowly Rising right so this is not a kind of problem that a customer would face really it's your faults for not doing they didn't do their homework I'm already joking we're going to do a rolling race let's do a rolling race right then Chris now youve got an option here we're going to race over the quarter M it takes a launch out of it my four-wheel drive Advantage now you can dictate the speed and the gear what do you want to do do you want to do it in first do you want to do it in second how do you want to play it let's do second yeah and let's do 30 30 so you actually set the pace yeah and I'll look at you and we'll have a stter start us like a normal race when we're pretty much on the start line and we'll race over the quar mile you haven't put any more power in that have you no no need more power let me get into a second here we go get level with Chris Watson come on get level get level get level Watson get level get level get level 2 1 oh it's weaving like a mad thing there I can see him I don't think he's going to catch me now though oh dear sounds like that sounds like a big end you killed it I was going to say is that the big end it sounds something it could be an exhaust manifold blow did you notice a lack of power yeah it didn't go like I thought it would oh bugger not only have you beaten me you've killed my bike start it up again I think that's broken and your machine is not tuned or anything in any way that's that's a stock one do you know what you can still do though brake test do you want to do a brake test let's do a break test do you have abs I've got abs and I've turned into racetrack mode so it's not on the back wheels it's only on the front wheel so you don't lock up the rear I I can look up the rear and I can stopy yeah but I can't look the front oh got it right I got it completely the wrong way rounded night doof okay let's do this Brak test and see what happens which machine will stop at the shortest distance I'm kind of betting on this here we go here comes the line anyway let's find out oh for a split second then we were kind of level but no let's go say haha to Chris northover ha okay so there wasn't a lot in that there wasn't a lot and we were sort of breaking together at one phase that I thought he might actually beat me but no not in the end in fact the only thing he won was when I completely cocked up the launch so I just think it's fair to say that my BMW is better than yours and yours has actually broken worse than mine because my break was just some software glitch yeah mine's making a horrible noise yours is making some horrible noise how much is your bike again 30 grand for a base model this one's just about 38 so basically the price of that bike is the same as the mods on this car and the mods on their Road are no good without the car underneath no exactly anyway Chris it's been a huge laugh as ever and well done for riding the ass off that bike so much so that you broke it I've got to go and explain that now I'll let you go and do that thank you and uh what a ridiculous car it is ridiculous anyway I hope you enjoyed the video if you did give it a like and if you want to watch some other videos then just click on the Windows just click on the Windows okay just go click on them and if you click on the actual carwow logo you can go to the carwow drag race leaderboard and compare this cars quter mile times against everything else wherever drag raced thanks for watching\n"