World's Luckiest Squirrel Escapes Death By BMW At The 'Ring

A squirrel is seen narrowly escaping a squashing as it scurries in front of an M235i racing car at a VLN event

27 Jun 2017

Today is one of those rare occasions when we bring you a story from the Nurburgring that doesn’t involve a lap time, a crash or an epic save. We’re also pretty sure it’s the first time we’ve reported anything squirrel-related from the Nordschleife, too.

The incredible footage above shows the moment a squirrel scampered in front of a race-spec BMW M235i at a recent VLN event, narrowly escaping a squashing…

Growing up on a diet of World Rally Championship highlights and lengthy Gran Turismo 2 sessions, a life in cars was as good as inevitable for Matt.

Comments

Almost lost his line, but managed to dodge squirrel and keep going..

Ikr? Glad he didn’t swerve away

I guess you can say it was Squirrelly close for the squirrel

Hopefully no stereotype is about to be born about BMW’s and squirrels.

Yeah, dude almost lost his life!

Meanwhile in Brünnchen nothing happened that day lol

That squirrel be like

katchoo

Who cares?

PETA, furries, animal lovers, people with hearts etc.

Oh, please.

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Oh god, squirrels. Two birds one time almost nearly escaped death by my 5-pot ride in a 20mph zone! I honked at them twice, they didn’t listen. So I just accelerated and they nearly escaped.