The BMW M1: a Race Car That Couldn't Go Racing - Jason Cammisa Revelations Ep. 29
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- The E26-chassis BMW M1 - the first car ever from a new subsidiary of BMW, creatively called "BMW Motorsport" - is one of few cars ever produced that started out as a race car and then was developed into a road car solely for homologation purposes.
Cars developed this way are in ultra-exclusive rarified air, but the M1's development was so fraught with problems that it was never allowed to go racing.
However, the car's fundamentals were spectacular, from its beautiful Giugiaro design to its powerful BMW M88 straight-six, to its Lamborghini-Dallara racing chassis. It received nearly universal acclaim - as quick as the 12-cylinder Ferrari 512 BB and the Lamborghini Countach, but civilized and docile to drive.
The difficulties in getting production ramped up were mostly the fault of Lamborghini, which went bankrupt during the development after misappropriating funds received both from BMW for the M1 and from the U.S. government to develop an off-road military vehicle, and then being sued for copying another company's work.
BMW was able to break into the factory overnight and retrieve its parts and tooling, and moved production elsewhere. But the car was never produced in enough numbers to participate in FIA Group 4 and FIA Group 5 racing - the classes for which it was conceived.
As a race car first and foremost, it is the purest expression of any car created by BMW Motorsport GmbH - and its impact has trickled down into every car M puts its badge on today. Which is, to say, the majority of cars that BMW produces.
Its backstory was a disaster, but the M1 itself is one of the most incredible cars of its time.
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This series is absolutely unbelievable Jason is one the GOAT’s
100% agreed!!!!!
Dude this channel itself is goated
@Catholic Firefighter ???
Nah, I am not sure.
@Catholic Firefighter Wtf do less drugs dude
Revelations are one of my favorite series on CZcams. Thanks, Jason!
Anything Jason does I will watch!
No, thank me.
Me too
That man is a national treasure!
I agree. This series is awesome.
I find it hilarious how BMW’s first high-performance car was a Lamborghini.
Yet no one else cares
@@Twinjeremy Yet you cared enough to comment that.
My dad advertised BASF so we got to see the M1 in that amazing livery racing & I could never work out why such a brilliant car just disappeared. 40 years later now I know!
Thanks internet.
Man, Hagerty is absolutely killing it. Great production quality, interesting topics, and a host with just the right amount of screws loose.
just like a first gen Neon... wait... that was too many loose screws!
I like this guy lol
Yeah, they've been killing it for a while now though.
I learn something new about automobiles every episode. I am as passionate about anything you can drive as I am about this show! I can't wait to see what's next...
The driving sequences at the end of these are the cherry on an amazing cake. You learn about the car, and then you get to feel like you are in it for a few minutes, with all the clicks, chatters, revs. GREAT SERIES!
Could not agree more. Careful with the clutch and gear changes, as they should be. Sounded beautiful, and worth the price of admission.
@@TriCkYiCe I agree that they should be driven gently. Can you explain why he blips the throttle between upshifts? I understand it on a downshift, but not on an upshift. Thanks for any info you can provide.
@@billinhouston3291 Because he doesn't know better. I came to comment the same thing. You can even watch the tach at 15:44, he shifts at a little over 6k, blips the throttle to keep the rpm over 5k, then engages the clutch to suddenly slow the engine to 4200 rpm. He's actually causing MORE wear to drivetrain components as well as upsetting the balance of the car by doing this. It's painful to watch and listen to, and a good way to send a nice car taillights-first into a guardrail if he ever accidentally approaches the limit of the rear tires. Considering his viewership numbers, I'm embarrassed for him.
@@Ben_Chillin yea I noticed this, I’m guessing the sound from the interior is of him double clutching, but that’s not actually necessary…. I blame the fast and the furious.
Even more interesting is that if the driver was to just do a regular shift at a regular pace he would probably be going pretty easy on both the synchros and the clutch….
(And in the end those are just replaceable parts, at least the clutch should be easily replaceable. Drive the car normal, don’t cater to silly fan-people. Unless you can remember watching an F1 driver by the name of Fangio you have never driven a car where double clutching is needed.)
its a perfect formula. same reason why Doug Demuro is so successful
Someone somehow even managed to make a Procar M1 road legal in Germany, you could hear that thing approach you for quite some time before it passed you on the Autobahn at full tilt. What a noise, what a car! That was a fantastic day 😍
I'm old, and when I was a teen I saw a picture of the M1 and stuck it next to my poster of the white Lamborghini Countach and Farrah Fawcett. I always wished I had a bigger poster like the other two, but I was enamoured by how cool it was while being simpler looking than the Lambo. One of my dream cars. Thanks Jason, for your fantastic story telling, more Revelation episodes please.
Farrah Fawcett not Foster.
@@richardturk7162 Thank you... I got too excited remembering it, lol I fixed it as that would bug me.
Back then I was driving a 2002 on the narrow mountain roads in Vermont but I had the red BMW factory "handout" on the wall....and Farrah.
@@TexasRiverRat31254 I wasn't alone, lol. What did you look at more?
Mine were a C-111 and Maridoth McRae (Pettycoat Junction).
This video series is so addictive. Please don't stop until you cover all the legendary stories about automobiles.
Please continue even if you run out of the stories. Just make something up and I’m sure it’ll be very much worth watching
@@Madrider1024 i would not disagree to this
Solid vid. Only thing I would add is that the wheels were made by Campagnolo, another Italian manufacturer but famous for high end aluminium roadbike components. Also inventor of the quick-release axle system, revolutionized the parallellogram derailleur, and is still leading in high end bikeparts
...and also helicopter parts.
Fun fact--after the Campagnolo "Record" came along, a Japanese company, SunTour, patented the Slant Parallelogram---and knocked Campagnolo off its perch. The day that patent expired, both Campagnolo, and the other Japanese giant, Shimano, came out with revised deraillers with slant parallelogram architecture.
I have a SunTour on my rear derailler, but Campagnolo everything else 😀
Huge props to Jason for the immaculate German. Haven't heard a non-German person speaking it so clean since a while, and this comes from a native German ^^ I actually had to rewind the video to hear if Jason really said it the way he did. Please keep up the awesome work!
Ich bin in die Kommentar-Sektion gekommen um das zu lesen 👍🏻du hast sowas von recht. Echt astreine Aussprache.
I believe he lived in Germany for a few years.
Why would you want this so badly? Imagine American english speakers praising a German for perfect pronunciation and accent when speaking english. It would sound ridiculous, like the German is mocking the way we talk
' for a while'
He went to high school in Germany. His father worked over there for a number of years
The driving segments at the end of these videos are always such a treat - I wish they were longer!
And he doesn’t talk I love it .
Yeah, especially the M1-Turbo videos should be Longer , ....
Yup, that one sounded very delicious!
Amazing video! Well done! As a German who loves motorsport and grew up with family working at BMW I really appreciate this video! Even Jasons German sounded VERY GOOD!
Yeah, thought the same thing. He must be learning German on the side or something. Wouldn't surprise me at all!
Jason spent a few years of his childhood and adolescence in Germany where his father was a manager for Opel, I believe. He´s fluent in German.
Ich wohne in Holland. 1,5 km von die Grenze und seines Deutsch ist besser als meines 😢
The way he says "München" is a giveaway.
@@EmyrDerfel the pronounciation of stuttgart also is a dead giveaway that he knows german :D
9:53
I was genuinely gobsmacked and nearly dropped my fork when Jason read that sign in perfect, accent free German…
I was really really impressed by that. ^^
And yet again, another awesome video guys! I really enjoy every single one of these car revelation episodes ^^
As a German this caught me off guard, that was really impressive
Same! Very unusual and nice to hear a native English speaker NOT butcher another language. Great job!
@@osebu absolutely
Its the first video I saw from him and when he read the sign the first thing I thougt was. "Oh, he´s german, but his english is very good. "
same
5:32 I've been waiting for the explanation about the M color origins ever since Jason mentioned it in a Carmudgeon episode some weeks back. That's definitely interesting 🤯
Always a good day when new Revelations hit
he lived in germany as a teenager
@@neoleo593 Aaaah, that makes sense! Ty :)
But calling Mr. Neerpasch Neerspach didnt count for you ;-(
The sad thing is he adds errors into his story and now you all believe his new truth ;-(
The POV driving at the very end with the engine noise is my favorite part of the episodes lol
You'd love Tedward, TheTopher and AutoTopNL, then.
@@goncalo33 They talk too much +/ their microphones aren't as good.
@@C.I... AutoTopNL and Winding Road Magazine tend to be silent.
@@C.I... AutoTopNL always make two or three separate videos. One of it always the review, and the rest is POV.
you should probably watch the hillclimb version then
I saw this little beast run at Mid-Ohio the one and only time. You know where it was around the track for the engines literal SCREAM!!! One Badass little monster. The memory is well etched in my mind.
What a gorgeous car! I sold BMWs in the late 80s and got to spend time driving the M3 and M5. The sound of the M1 engine brought back the memories!
The bribe money is to get Jason to make another video - as if he needed the incentive. Thanks again for another great video Jason!
Fingers crossed for the Lamborghini LM002
Red M1 with racing kit that belonged to the Boney M producer Franz Farian is absolutely stunning.
Frank Farian it is. Allthough funnily his real name is actually Franz Reuther.
Had to look it up and you're 100% right, such an amazing looking car.
Frank Farian lived next to the town I grew up in Solms/Braunfels. He also produced Milli Vanilli, the biggest flopsters in the 90's LOL. Wonder if he had to sell the M1 to pay for lawyer's fees.
I never realized how beautiful this car is. It's so unsung. Thank you for doing a piece on it, Jason.
I used to have a mid-80s BMW K1000 motorcycle in M livery; pearlescent white with orange and light blue stripes. It was a beautiful machine. The promise of M has alway been strong.
Camissa gang 😎
We here, cammisa🙌🙌🙌💪
I'm down for that.
That M1 does look kind of like a Lotus Esprit. Beautiful car.
Clean looks and its fast and reliable to
They're both "Giugiaro Wedges"(TM)
Just like the Lotus only slimmer.
The interior looks like the Lotus to.
This is such A grade quality content. The research that goes into these Revelations videos is so appreciated by your viewers.
Growing up, my next-door neighbor had two M1,s, and they were gorgeous.
Been waiting for this one! The M1 and the 959 were the two cars from my youth that were captivating not only for their performance, but the legends of their origins and the potential impact they failed to impart on the automotive world.
Comparing the 959, which was the singular on-par competitor to the all time great F40, to the M1 which was by all accounts a massive failure is pretty wild.
The sound that car makes is biblical, from the rev to the overrun after letting off hard acceleration!
So amazing there's a connection between the M1, the Rambo Lambo, and the Humvee. Great video! I've always loved that car and it was a pleasure to learn about it.
Germans just going in and taking stuff they reckon belongs to them isn't exactly a new thing!
*HMMWV
Thanks a bunch for the history lesson. This fan is the caretaker of two of the company’s cars: a 1973 BMW 2002 and a 2002 E46 M3. Both have been a joy to drive and maintain. One day, I’ll pass them on to someone else.
There where actually some group 5 M1’s but they where built by March, Sauber, and some privateer teams converting Group 4 cars
Thank you for the note about BMW being in the business of making money, not cars. I think Lutz said something very similar in Car Guys vs Bean Counters. AWESOME VIDEO!
Without $ there are no cars, BMW were going under year I was born, Daimler was going to use them to make trucks. By this century BMW were outselling Mercedes & Daimler had to buy AMG to compete with M.
I first saw the M1 in a car magazine as a 12 year old in 1981. Has been my dream car and made me a BMW fan since then. I still have a Corgi model M1 in its box from the '80's.
Still easily one of my favorite series on CZcams. Thanks!
🏁🏁Well good lord sweet baby Jesus…Been waiting and enticingly anticipating another Revelations episode with my guy Jason Cammisa 😎🤙🏾
JASON!!! BEEN WAITING FOR THIS DROP!! THANK YOU SIR!!!!!!
So much happened in the car world that I took for granted.
Thanks so much for sharing what you do, amazing content.
I just discovered this channel, whenever I see any video talking about the Original M1, I'll click. One of my favourite racing cars ever, since I was a kid. There were a couple of M1's in 84 or 85 in the portuguese touring car championship, I had 6 years old when I first heard the the growl of the inline 6 with open exhaust. Damn, they were LOUD! Great video, will check out the rest of your work guys
Please keep making these. They are all so well done and Jason is the perfect host.
That car sounds so good. Love these episodes, Jason does a fantastic job. If he wasn’t the one doing the episodes, I probably wouldn’t watch them or just skip to the driving. Keep the good content coming Hagerty team
Hagerty yall need to do whatever it takes to keep this series going because this is the #1 car content on CZcams right now. Keep pumping this out!
Never. Stop. Filming! Brilliant as usual, Jason!
Fantastic episode. Thank you.
I well remember reading about the M1 back in 1981...and was amazed at what they managed to produce. Then I waited to see one on the street, in the flesh. And waited. And waited. The average sale price of an M1 today is over $500k.
i8 is modern EV equivalent & you can get it for less (+ Spyder).
That drive at the end was the most perfect double-clutching I've ever heard
Yeah but on the upshifts. I have had a couple discussions with Jason about this, which I consider across purposes, since the revs need to fall to synchronize with the next gear up, and he gave me an answer...which I don't recall. Guess we'll have to go back into bloody fisticuffs to sort it all out again. And I so respect and love these shows. Jason is the best true car-knowledge host, in terms of information and entertainment.
I throughly enjoy these Revelations episodes and Jason is a natural presenting them. Please keep them coming
Great, under-appreciated supercar. Thank you, Jason and crew, for yet another superlative episode. Y'all kill it! ✌️❤️🙂🇨🇦
Since it created M (who just celebrated 50th anniversay & are going stronger & more profitably than ever), under-appreciated may be putting it a little strongly. 507 didn't sell & now they auction for million$. M1 I6 also responsible for original M5 & M6.
Oh come on, this video isn't long enough! The M1 needs at least a 20 minute video. Such a magnificent car with a fascinating story, and its impact on the company is so profound. And boy does it sound spectacular! No wonder it was the best sounding car in NFS World.
I miss NFS World, the M1 Procar was the only car in that game I shelled out real money for and it was absolutely my favorite thing to drive. Cemented the M1 as one of my favorite designs too
@@JiorujiDerako I miss that game too. I bet you had loads of fun racing with the M1 too. It was a great car in its class. I owned the treasure hunter edition M1 and I absolutely loved that car. It was one of my "go to" treasure hunting cars on the days I was in a hurry and didn't want to break my streak. I spent a lot of money on that game but I don't regret it. The memories I made in that game playing with my friends will stay with me forever. I can relate to you on the last point too, the game played a role in making me fall in love with so many cars, and the M1 is near the top.
Amazing video as usual with great production quality, thank you Jason.
You never make a video where I don't learn, laugh, and smile knowing you're one of the guys that deserves his car collection. Awesome. 👌
None of these are his.
Another revaluation in a few weeks. Niiiice.
Saw one of these in the 1980's, and was so taken by it that I just stepped out onto the road andwalked right in front of the shocked driver (she was able to stop on a sixpence thank goodness) - still one of the most beautiful cars ever made.
Awesome video !
Thanks for posting 👍
That's awesome that it worked out for them in the end. Love the synthwave vibes you put into the video. It's so fitting. My first time hearing of this car. It looks just like a Delorean but with an 850i front and minus the gullwing doors. Awesome video.
Both Giugiaro of Ital Design, M1 evolution of BMW designer Paul Bracq's Turbo Concept.
I remember reading about this car in car magazines in the 80's. The story of this car could even make for a good movie some day. I've loved the look of this car since first seeing pictures of it. I always wanted a big poster of this car for my wall as a teen. This car seemed like it was ether too late, or too early, as the rules and companies involved were always changing. I know many would have liked to see it compete as it was intended to. Being designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, the M1 should have had an Ital Design logo on it somewhere. Thank you.
I want to see the heist.
Its incredible what Jason and the team are doing. Keep it up!
I was absolutely waiting for this episode. Excellent vid again.
This series and Jason and his writers/production team deserves a full on television series.
Bravo 👏
Absolutely love every episode 🤙
This IS television.
What even is this “television” you keep talking about? LOL.
We need more Cammisa!
Dude I was having a bad day and when I saw that you had a new video out, on a vintage BMW M, and more than anything else on the M1 (which I got to see IRL at the BMW museum), well...That made me happy again!!!
Oh my goodness, the end of that video made me feel all kinds of ways. What a beautiful sound!
The BEST car series of documentaries on CZcams! This one will be EPIC!!
Wow that sound! Not actually much a fan of its looks but the specs, interior and exhaust not never disappoint.
This series is outstanding, informative and truly entertaining. I think Jason might just be the most watchable person on youtube.
The drive footage and audio at the end is the sweetest cherry on top.
I hope to see you and Thomas and James from throttle house to do a couple of videos every year it’s really a good matchup of personalities, one American one Canadian, and one Brit. Love your productions and humour , also you seem to know stuff😂
Jason is literally unable to miss...
Thank you for the awesome video and man does that M1 sound incredible
That car sounds amazing. I love the short test drive at the end of these videos, it's a really nice touch. Great as ever Jason.👏👍👍
Babe wake up. New Revelations episode has dropped.
I love my BMW 135i RWD 300hp 3.0L 6 cylinders twin turbo with M package. Pretty fast tiny car two doors. I bought a Mustang and i returned because i did test drive this BMW before.
that's a modern mk4 supra. Better in all ways than a mk4 supra btw
@@thehumanoid6543 not sure that's correct, as in, I own the latest gen (G42) M240i X drive which does have Supra/Z4 underpinnings but sits on an entirely different chassis to the 1 series, certainly a RWD 135i, as the current model is X drive.🤔
@@leccybadger Original 1er was reduced E90 3er (BMW Canada sold it as "BMW Concentrated"). Your Supra is made on same line as Z4 by Magna in Austria (original X3 built there also). 135i was ideal commuter, small but with ALL the BMW driving & engineering features. Now 1er is fwd. MINI UKL & they only sell X1 in North America.
Brilliant, as usual.
Always look forward to these👍
Jason, you are my favorite automobile journalist out there. You are KILLING IT. Thank you for all the effort and enthusiasm you put into all your work.
camissa is back woooooh
seriously hagerty, ignition, and you jason are killing it. love everything you do. and love the editing. this is truly amazing and professional work. and best of all. it is for free, and not in the payment section of youtube. thanks for all that hard work and amazing show. very satisfying and entertaining and enjoyable episodes. my favorite episodes are all the episodes with the supra mk4. they are so perfectly edited and so much informative in excellent detail and depth. you are the goat of cars sine the old top gear ⚙️
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One of the sweetest sounding engine. Just magical to hear it run the gears. Great episode!!
When I was 9 or 10 a long time ago, a dude in the street where we lived at the time, had a M1 the only M1 I have seen in person all my life.
We’ve been waiting for this since it was mentioned in a Carmudgeon episode! 😂 Thanks for delivering in such stupendous fashion Jason! ❤
I'm down for that LM002 intellectual thievery video. Please. Sooner than later.
Another well done segment, Jason. Thank you.
Great revelations video! The b-roll at the end was absolutely worth the audio sublime-ness 😉
When is the next Carmudgeon???
Next Monday!
BMW commemorate their M devision 50 years of motor sport dominance by creating a extremely large and ugly SUV...... YA perfect
Great content! I click on every one of these expecting to watch only a few minutes, but end up watching until the end. Came for the M1, got a full history of the M badge. Nice!
Amazing video Jason!
Jason is great. The passion for cars really shows.
The legal disclaimer was a good bit. Quality throughout. That sound at the end intoxicating.
Thank you so much for covering the M1 Procar, my absolute favorite GT race car
Fantastic episode on a truly remarkable machine.. and god that example being featured looks absolutely sensational - so hats off to its owners and thanks for sharing it for educational purposes.
I think the only thing that was slightly overlooked was that M-Sport did produce some very competitive models from a racing perspective across the 80s-2000s - cars including e36/e46 in particular - that competed in a configuration not wholly removed from the commercial products.
Agreeing that today’s racing cars are essentially bespoke machines sharing almost no components with their road-going siblings - and certainly that the badge has lost almost all of its race-bred cred… but it was a progression over the years that did produce some amazing “race Sunday, buy Monday” examples.
Keep up the tremendous Moto journalism!!
Never a fan of BMW cars beyond the 1990s, but if I could ever choose one to own, it's this true beauty. The M1 is simply beautiful.
I had one of these in the Black and Gold it was amazing going round my scalextric track
This episode of Revelations is the pinnacle for me as a BMW fanatic & driver, the M division is my greatest inspiration for me becoming a hardcore motorsports enthusiast. Well done 👍👏😁🟦🟪🟥
Another amazing episode, including that spectacular old sports car engine sound at the end.
Gotta love the honesty. And Jason. Gotta love Jason.
I have often wondered about this car. The history I have seen presented before was full of holes.
Nice work, now I know why I drive and early 2000's M3 that is exactly the same as my 1989 325IS; live and learn.
Jason, is just the best ❤️ this isnt the gin talking this man is a god of reasearch and video making im sooo happy new fans of cars have these videos to watch
Great video, very well mixed.
As a teenager in the early eighties and a car enthousiast, The BMW M1 was one of my favorites. I saw one in the flesh in Knokke ( Belgium ) , what a car. So it became my first plastic 1/24 model kit. I was a huge fan of its wedge shape and pop up headlights and central engine design.
Later in life, I couldn't afford a M1 ( not many can , I guess) so I bought me a Lotus Esprit S2.2. Just like the M1 it was was an 1980 car , also designed by Giorgetto Giugiaro, wedge ,and mid engined. It has similar lines, but of course it does not play in the same league as the M1
Saw an M1 at the New York Auto Show a very long time ago. Love at first sight.
This was just an absolute joy to watch - the little driving bonus at the end the chefs kiss - thanks