Racing on public roads has become more and more frequent these days, with a lot of heavily modified sports cars being engaged in dangerous burn outs and drag races.

This is exactly what happened with the driver of this nitrous E36 BMW M3 who believed that his ride was more powerful than the 1,300 HP Volkswagen Golf RS V10.

As we can see in the video below, the driver of the M3 was reckless enough to push the pedal to the medal, activating the car`s nitrous in an attempt to fast pass the Golf RS seen here.

Both models are found on a freeway, with the M3 driver losing control while trying to tackle the Golf model by activating the nitrous mode. In his attempt, the driver lost control and the car`s rear stepped out the freeway, even if he tried to gain control by hard breaking. Eventually, the driver hit the barrier extremely hard, flying and spinning throughout the air, reaching the opposite lane; fortunately for him, he got away with just a few bruises.

The impact could have been harder and the driver could have suffered serious injuries if it hadn’t been for the additional roll cage and other safety measures inside the cabin.

The E36 BMW M3 seen here “was” powered by a 5.0-liter V10 and fully packed with nitrous injection, while its “opponent”, a Volkswagen Golf RS V10 was taking its power from a 5.0-liter twin-turbo V10 with whopping 1,300 horsepower, which is just about enough to take on any hypercar available out there on the market today, not to mention an E36 M3.

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There are a lot of BMW petrol heads that didn`t quite love the E36 BMW M3 and we are not sure why, perhaps because of it`s vintage look and not that sheer performance under the hood, and that because it might have been over-shadowed by the E30 M3.

But from where I stand, we wouldn`t have the latest generation M3 if it hadn`t been for this lad seen here wearing the gorgeous Estoril Blue wrap and being admired with a plethoro of styling parts, all courtesy to European Auto Source Californian tuner.

We have to admit that time has passed and the dust might have covered the old-timer E36 M3, but it`s tuners` job to make it shine once more. And EAS knows how to do that.

As we can depict from the photos, the E36 BMW M3 received some body stying upgrades, like custom front bumper, new wheels and rear wing, which appears to have belonged to a limited model.

Besides the body parts, this particular model has been also fitted with KW V2 coilovers, Hotchkis sway bars, Rogue Engineering rear shock mounts, Macht Schnell wheel spacers, Powerflex rear trailing arm bushing kit or OEM LTW front strut brace.

Besides the aforementioned mods, we are not sure if there were also any upgrades carried out to the car`s straight-six engine, which led the way to the E46`s S54 mill.

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Like a lot of other car makers out there, BMW has been in the business for quite a while now and can be considered to have a rich history.

Fortunately for the Bavarians, most of this history is a proud moment for the company and not many failures were recorded.

One interesting trait that can be attributed to Bimmers, and M3s in particular, is a nice racing pedigree. And not just any kind of racing, but rallying. As racing goes, rally racing is one of the toughest tests, both for driver and vehicle.

We came across some very interesting footage of an E36 BMW M3 in what seems to be a rally stage in Estonian woods. The interesting part about it is the fact that the M3 catches some serious air time, and the driver manages to stick the landing rather well. You just don’t get that in other kind of racing.

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The 2014 BMW M235i super sports coupe is finally drawing the lines by competing in one of the most important racing events, skid pads and drag strips in North America, the One Lap of America event.

Behind the 2014 BMW M23i stands an entire army of engineers and drivers, like Michael Renner and Stephen Maguire from United BMW Roswell of Atlanta.

The BMW M235i 320-horsepower coupe will be competing in the SSGT2 Small Bore Stock Touring class against the Subaru BRZ, three Volkswagen Golf GTI and an E36 BMW M3 in the non-stock Small Bore class.

The BMW M235i is put to some hard work, as there are 400-mile daily stages to be partaken, with some several stops, including at the BMW Performance Center at Spartanburg, South Carolina.

There will be an overall 3,249 miles to be partaken in seven days, with the event presently on the roll, with the “final skid pad course” on the 10th of May.

The One Lap of America event began in South Bend, Indiana and goes all the way to New Orleans, Atlanta, Washington D.C. and New York.

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