HP4 Race White

HP4 Race White, the white of a BMW circuit machine

A white named after the BMW HP4 Race motorcycle of 2017. It is not a production road machine: the HP4 Race was sold purely as a circuit machine without homologation for use on public roads, and the white on it makes up the largest continuous surface of the bodywork.

The machine behind the name of the shade

BMW built the HP4 Race by hand in a limited series of seven hundred and fifty examples. The machine came with neither lights nor plates for road use, because it counted on a closed circuit only, and its equipment matches that right down to the controls on the handlebars. The bodywork is divided into large white surfaces on which the colored stripes and the plates for race numbers rest, and that is exactly why white is the color there is most of on a model of this motorcycle rather than a complement. The difference from the brand's road machines is visible in how little lettering there is on the bodywork.

Which parts the white lies on

• the front fairing and the side panels of a circuit motorcycle
• the plates for race numbers, where the number is meant to stay legible
• the rear section of the seat and the fender above the rear wheel
• white surfaces of work stands and pit equipment for a diorama

Who the white will serve best

Builders of motorcycle models in the larger scales, where the bodywork parts are large and an uneven light tone on them would be visible at first glance. It also suits those who build circuit machines with number graphics of their own and need a light base on which the numbers will not go dull. On the real subject the light panels lie right beside the unpainted carbon of the frame and the wheels, and it is exactly this transition between a smooth surface and the structure of fibers that tends to be the first thing a person notices on a finished model.