{"id":35387,"date":"2022-11-06T03:21:58","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T08:21:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=35387"},"modified":"2022-11-06T03:21:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T08:21:58","slug":"fastest-motogp-qualifier-francesco-bagnaia-wins-bmw-m3-touring-new-m2-selected-as-2023-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/?p=35387","title":{"rendered":"Fastest MotoGP Qualifier Francesco Bagnaia Wins BMW M3 Touring, New M2 Selected As 2023 Award"},"content":{"rendered":"

The 2023 M3 Touring served as the BMW M Award<\/a> this year and Francesco \u2018Pecco\u2019 Bagnaia received the keys to his super wagon this weekend. During the final qualifying session of the 2022 MotoGP season, the Ducati rider was officially crowned as the fastest qualifier this year. The car in question is a stealthy example with an Individual Frozen Black matte paint job and optional Frozen Gold wheels (1000 M) from the M Performance Parts catalog.<\/p>\n

Franciscus van Meel, CEO of BMW M GmbH, and Carmelo Ezpeleta, CEO of Dorna Sports were on location to hand over the M3 G81, one of the many M products presented this year. Speaking of which, the M2 G87 was also there, presented in Zandvoort Blue<\/a>. The speedy coupe celebrated its Spanish debut at the track in Valencia and BMW says it will be next year\u2019s M Award.<\/p>\n

Francesco \u2018Pecco\u2019 Bagnaia secured this year\u2019s M Award by taking the pole position five times this season, during which he collected a total of 293 points. After all the qualifying sessions in 2022, he had an advantage of 11 points over his closest rival, Jorge Martin.<\/p>\n

BMW is celebrating 50 years of M this weekend in Valencia with a special \u201cLegends Parade\u201d encompassing all safety cars that have been used since 1999. No fewer than 15 cars will take part in the festivities: Z8, 645 Ci, Z4, M4 Competition, M8 Competition, M8 Gran Coupe, 1M, and the current safety car fleet based on the M3 Touring.<\/p>\n

It wouldn\u2019t be a complete M celebration in Valencia without showcasing the first dedicated M car since the M1. While it\u2019s sadly no mid-engined supercar, the 2023 XM<\/a> plug-in hybrid SUV paves the way for the impending electrified future of the \u201cworld\u2019s most powerful letter.\u201d All full-fat M cars coming from 2023 will be hybrids, and sooner or later, there\u2019s going to be an electric M model.<\/p>\n

Source: BMW<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2023 M3 Touring served as the BMW M Award this year and Francesco \u2018Pecco\u2019 Bagnaia received the keys to his super wagon this weekend. During the final qualifying session of the 2022 MotoGP season, the Ducati rider was officially crowned as the fastest qualifier this year. The car in question is a stealthy example […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":35388,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=35387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/35388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=35387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=35387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/autosector.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=35387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}