LONDON: A Munich-based museum’s 1978 March BMW 782 F2 car recently underwent a full restoration process and subsequently took to the Silverstone track for a shake down session before debuting at the upcoming Goodwood Festival of Speed.

The car, weighing roughly 500kg, is powered by a 2.0-litre 310hp engine and is owned by BMW Museum AG commissioned Cars International to restore and race prepare the car before returning it to Munich, Germany.

Cars International is renowned as experts in the sales and preparation of historically important F1 cars and the company’s funder and former racer Paul Osborne took it through its paces on the track despite experiencing torrential rain conditions.

“It is perfect, unlike many cars from this era, it feels a part of you. The engine is brilliant. So is the handling, even in the monsoon like conditions… when a car has been restored and rebuilt by World Championship winning Formula 1 engineers, it is as we expected,” said Osborne.

After the shake down, BMW engineers were impressed enough to allow the car to run in the forthcoming Goodwood Festival of Speed, where second in the 1978 F2 European Championships Marc Surer will be the guest driver to pilot the car.

It was Bruno Giacomelli, Surer’s teammate, who took the championship and emerged top in the standings – both drivers dominated the season9 that year

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