You can paint carbon fiber car parts yourself, but you have to do it right

Carbon fiber looks easy to repaint, but multiple prep and finishing steps determine whether the result holds up or fails completely over time.
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BMW Invented What Comes After Carbon Fiber, And It’ll Be in Your Next M Car

BMW‘s carbon fiber roof parts will soon be replaced with plant fiber. When the BMW M4 GT4 hits the Nürburgring for its next 24-hour race, it’ll be race-testing the same flax-based natural fiber ...
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Natural Flax Fiber May Replace Carbon Fiber On Your Next M Car, And BMW Already Tested It In A 24-Hour Race

Rowe Racing claimed BMW's first overall victory in five years at the Nürburgring 24 Hours last Sunday. A record crowd of 280,000 spectators saw the white-and-yellow No. 94 BMW M4 GT3 Evo cross the ...
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New Porsche Race Car for the Nürburgring 24 Hours Has Wood and Flax Body Panels

This is not your grandfather’s woody. It’s a 425-horsepower, flat-six Porsche 718 Cayman GT4 Clubsport MR, with MR meaning that it has additional go-fast mods by Porsche’s Nürburgring-based speed shop ...