I want a sequential in one of my cars!!

This is in the Dutch Supercar Challenge. This BMW has a 2.0 litre engine. The car is a ex BTCC car. There a various cars driving in the same race, but in different categories. They are separated bij power to weight ratio in about 3 different classes.

It's a transmission called a dog box. The gears have dog teeth sticking out that engage the gear next to them.
In a dogbox the gears mesh and unm esh when changing into other gears.
With a normal everyday car gearbox the gears are always meshing. I'm pretty sure he is running a Hewland tra nsmission.
If your thinking of getting a dogbox for a everyday road ca r, don't...
Every gear down change you have to blip the engine so you don't get engine compression lock ups through the driven wheels.
And i 'm sure you won't wanna pay 20,000USD per tranny. And don't forget about t he rebuilds, straight cut gears don't last that long so you'll be paying a nother 8k per set of gears.

what kind of engine have this?

yes the noise is the race tranny ... straight cut race gears sounds like th at ...

It is indeed the gears. Also, with straight cut gears, you are less likely to break something if you don't have rev's matched quite right on a shift.

Hope he wore ear plugs too. The engine could bearly be heard over that whine. Did he actually make it back all the way to first? There were more than one class of cars obviously, as he wasn't catastrophically faster than the latter of the cars..

That sounds like it has somthing wrong with it. They get so close to each other its amazing

It seems to be the rear differential as the whinning increase with the speed of the car and not the rotation speed of the engine; I would not be confident about it ! Apparently this BMW was much quicker than some GT cars (were there some Marcos on the track ?)

Sweat jesus, my ears a bleeding from that...