So far BMW M has not disclosed yet the official Nürburgring Nordschleife M2 CS lap time.
Some considerations:
- FWIW: back in January 2016 a German source stated that already in 2015 BMW was testing an M2 pre-production car with the S55 engine (instead of the N55 engine) and that it lapped the Nürburgring Nordschleife "more than 8 seconds faster than the M4" (see here); remember that the Sport Auto M4 lap time was 07:52 (see list here);
- M2 Competition lap time:
- reference is usually made to the 07:52.36 lap time by Sport Auto (Horst von Saurma) in October 2018 (M-DCT M2 Competition - no manual) (see list here + full lap video here);
- Sport Auto pinned the following comment under its video: "Hi guys, just one more information: The official lap time of BMW M testdriver Jörg Weidinger in the M2 Competition was 7.50 min";
- during the closed room M2 CS preview event in Brussels (Sep 17), a BMW guy mentioned "about 10 seconds faster than the M2 Competition";
- on the M2 CS release day (Nov 6), a Belgian YouTuber posted an M2 CS walkaround video (see here); he mentions (02:35-02:40) that the M2 CS laps the Nürburgring "8 seconds faster than the M2 Competition".
As 07:42 is the lap time of the first generation Porsche Cayman GT4 (981) (manual, of course - no PDK) clocked By Sport Auto (Christian Gebhardt) in 2015, I hope that the M2 CS manages to perform that lap time. I think that it's gonna be a close call (± 07:43).
BMW M lap times (source:
here)
- 7:27.88 = F82 M4 GTS
- 7:35 (previously 7:38) = F80 M3 CS + F82 M4 CS
- 7:38.92 = F90 M5
- 7:4?.?? = F87 M2 CS
- 7:48 = E92 M3 GTS
- 7:50 = E46 M3 CSL + F87 M2 Competition (BMW)
- 7:52 = F82 M4
- 7:52.36 = F87 M2 Competition (Sport Auto)
- 7:54 = F10 M5 Competition
- 7:58 = F87 M2
- 8:05 = E92 M3
- 8:07 = E52 Z8
- 8:09 = E63 M6
- 8:12 = E86 Z4 M Coupé
- 8:13 = E60 M5
- 8:15 = E82 1M
- 8:22 = E46 M3
- 8:22 = E36/8 M3
- 8:35 = E36 M3
- 8:50 = E30 M3