The BMW 269 is one of the Bmw entries the open record knows by name, and by little else. That is not nothing: a name in the catalogue is where a car's story starts to be recoverable.
How it came about
The BMW 269, also known as the BMW F269, is an open-wheel Formula 2 race car. Designed by Len Terry, its chassis was built by aircraft company Dornier for BMW to participate in the 1969 and 1970 Formula 2 European Championships. It also took part the 1969 Formula One World Championship as F2 cars were admitted to the 1969 German Grand Prix on the very long Nürburgring, and exemption that was started in the 1950s.
The hardware
the output is 250 Hp. On the scales it comes to 690 kg. That is roughly 362 horsepower per tonne: genuine supercar pace. These are manufacturer figures carried by Wikipedia and Wikidata, not road-test measurements.
Family and rivals
In the Bmw line-up the BMW 269 has a clear place: it replaced the BMW HH; it handed the line to the BMW 270. Its Bmw stablemates include the BMW 116 and the BMW 3 Series.