I’ve always dreamed of driving in the Rolex Monterey Motorsports Reunion. It’s exactly the kind of racing I want to do: no stakes, classic cars, and an iconic racetrack. Sadly, I’m no racing driver, nor am I someone special enough to get seat time in a race car for such an event. However, I can watch onboard videos from race cars in the event, and that’s about as close most of us will ever get. So if you’re having a boring day at work, or you need to take 15 minutes to unwind, watch this video from Mike Skeen, who drove Emanuele Pirro’s 1992 BMW E30 M3 DTM at the 2026 Rolex Reunion at Laguna Seca.
The E30 M3 DTM is the most successful DTM cars of all time. With its 300-horsepower four-cylinder engine, revving to 8200 rpm, and its flickable, lightweight chassis, the E30 M3 dominated DTM in the late Eighties and early Nineties. It was an absolute motorsport phenom that gave birth to one of the most iconic road-going sports cars of all time. So it’s no wonder that it’s sensational on track in this video.
Mike Skeen
Of course, it can’t keep up with more modern, more powerful cars in the straights. They just have too much power for an Eighties four-pot to keep up. However, the E30 is still competitive through corners, thanks to its combination of size and light weight. Well, it’s competitive on corner entry, where it can carry more speed than other cars into the corner and brake later, but then its power deficit means Porsches and more modern M3s run away from it. But Skeen was probably having more fun than almost anyone else on track.
This video is pure eye and ear bleach, cleansing your brain of the stresses of the day. The sights, the sounds. It’s just spectacular. What a machine. What an event. Check it out.
