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They brought her out before the heat settled in. White paint carrying traces of weekday dust, S65 V8 idling like a calm heartbeat before the sprint. CarBahn and Auto Arzt circled her with that quiet confidence only real tuners have. No drama. No overbuilt madness. Just a naturally aspirated E92, daily driven yet razor sharp. Today she wasn’t here to impress. She was here to dethrone.
She looked modest beside the history she was up against. The previous benchmarks were monsters: turbo E92s pushing big boost, supercharged builds that barked louder than they cornered. Cars that made headlines with horsepower sheets thicker than phone books. But this one didn’t rely on pressure. Her power came from precision. Eight cylinders reaching past 8,000 rpm, throttle response crisp enough to cut, suspension tuned to the decimal, alignment carved for maximum bite. No shortcuts. No noise for the sake of noise.
When she rolled out onto Sepang, the air shifted. First lap, clean. Second lap, sharper. Third lap, something clicked – like the car remembered who she really was. She carved the high-speed bends with a balance the boosted cars never quite mastered. The S65 sang at full stretch, unfiltered, uncompressed. Braking zones hit perfectly. Exits clean. Every move looked like she was drawing a new line across the asphalt.
And then she crossed the line faster. Faster than the turbo builds. Faster than the supercharged ones. Faster than the cars everyone assumed would keep their thrones forever. A naturally aspirated daily, walking past forced-induction legends with nothing but discipline and engineering purity.
CarBahn and Auto Arzt built her to be lived with, but tuned her to be feared. Sepang just got the reminder. Daily Driven, Racing Breed – now, record breaking.
This piece is filmed in collaboration with CarBahn and Auto Arzt.
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