diff --git a/CIValidations/Benchmark/CMakeLists.txt b/CIValidations/Benchmark/CMakeLists.txt
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..0e5a87c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CIValidations/Benchmark/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,8 @@
+foreach(TEST
+    MaCh3Benchmark
+    )
+
+    add_executable(${TEST} ${TEST}.cpp)
+    target_link_libraries(${TEST} PRIVATE Catch2::Catch2WithMain MaCh3::All MaCh3Tutorial::samplePDFTutorial)
+    catch_discover_tests(${TEST})
+endforeach()
diff --git a/CIValidations/Benchmark/MaCh3Benchmark.cpp b/CIValidations/Benchmark/MaCh3Benchmark.cpp
new file mode 100755
index 0000000..6460e30
--- /dev/null
+++ b/CIValidations/Benchmark/MaCh3Benchmark.cpp
@@ -0,0 +1,38 @@
+// MaCh3 spline includes
+#include "mcmc/MaCh3Factory.h"
+#include "samplePDF/samplePDFTutorial.h"
+
+#include "catch2/catch_test_macros.hpp"
+#include "catch2/benchmark/catch_benchmark.hpp"
+
+TEST_CASE("Benchmark MaCh3") {
+  // Initialise manger responsible for config handling
+  auto FitManager = std::make_unique<manager>("Inputs/FitterConfig.yaml");
+
+  // Initialise covariance class reasonable for Systematics
+  covarianceXsec* xsec = MaCh3CovarianceFactory(FitManager.get(), "Xsec");
+  covarianceOsc*  osc  = MaCh3CovarianceFactory<covarianceOsc>(FitManager.get(), "Osc");
+
+  // Initialise samplePDF
+  auto SampleConfig = FitManager->raw()["General"]["TutorialSamples"].as<std::vector<std::string>>();
+  auto mySamples = MaCh3SamplePDFFactory<samplePDFTutorial>(SampleConfig, xsec, osc);
+
+  // Create MCMC Class
+  std::unique_ptr<FitterBase> MaCh3Fitter = MaCh3FitterFactory(FitManager.get());
+  // Add covariance to MCM
+  MaCh3Fitter->addSystObj(xsec);
+  MaCh3Fitter->addSystObj(osc);
+  for (size_t i = 0; i < SampleConfig.size(); ++i) {
+    MaCh3Fitter->addSamplePDF(mySamples[i]);
+  }
+  // Benchmark
+  BENCHMARK("MaCh3Fitter::DragRace") {
+    MaCh3Fitter->DragRace(1);
+  };
+
+  delete xsec;
+  delete osc;
+  for (size_t i = 0; i < SampleConfig.size(); ++i) {
+    delete mySamples[i];
+  }
+}
diff --git a/CIValidations/CMakeLists.txt b/CIValidations/CMakeLists.txt
index 9de8b3b..0e20ec0 100755
--- a/CIValidations/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CIValidations/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -39,3 +39,7 @@ install(DIRECTORY
 if(MaCh3Tutorial_UNITTESTS_ENABLED)
   add_subdirectory(UnitTests)
 endif()
+
+if(MaCh3Tutorial_Benchmark_ENABLED)
+  add_subdirectory(Benchmark)
+endif()
diff --git a/CMakeLists.txt b/CMakeLists.txt
index b7972b3..5862819 100755
--- a/CMakeLists.txt
+++ b/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -39,6 +39,8 @@ file(
 )
 include(${CMAKE_CURRENT_BINARY_DIR}/cmake/CPM.cmake)
 
+include(CIValidations)
+
 ##################################  MaCh3  ######################################
 # KS: Here we try to find tag matching tutorial version. If we can't find one then use develop
 # This will allow to grab tutorial for tagged MaCh3 version without a need of manually changing version
@@ -67,13 +69,30 @@ if(NOT DEFINED PYTHON_ENABLED)
   SET(PYTHON_ENABLED false)
 endif()
 if(NOT MaCh3_FOUND)
+
+  set(MaCh3_OPTIONS
+    "MaCh3_PYTHON_ENABLED ${PYTHON_ENABLED}"
+  )
+
+  # KS: For benchmark we turn off logger to not interfere with output messages.
+  # Also to have code compile let's turn off Werror
+  if (MaCh3Tutorial_Benchmark_ENABLED)
+    list(APPEND MaCh3_OPTIONS "MaCh3_WERROR_ENABLED OFF")
+    set(LOG_LEVEL "OFF")
+  endif()
+
+  # Add LOG_LEVEL if defined
+  if (DEFINED LOG_LEVEL)
+    list(APPEND MaCh3_OPTIONS "LOG_LEVEL ${LOG_LEVEL}")
+  endif()
+
   CPMAddPackage(
     NAME MaCh3
     GIT_TAG ${MaCh3_Branch}
     GIT_SHALLOW YES
     GITHUB_REPOSITORY mach3-software/MaCh3
     OPTIONS
-      "MaCh3_PYTHON_ENABLED ${PYTHON_ENABLED}"
+      ${MaCh3_OPTIONS}
       "Prob3ppLinear_ENABLED ON"
       "NuFastLinear_ENABLED ON"
   )
@@ -92,8 +111,6 @@ if(MaCh3_VERSION GREATER MaCh3Tutorial_VERSION)
   cmessage(WARNING "MaCh3Tutorial_VERSION (${MaCh3Tutorial_VERSION}) is smaller than MaCh3_VERSION (${MaCh3_VERSION}), this most likely will not work")
 endif()
 
-include(CIValidations)
-
 ############################  C++ Compiler  ####################################
 get_property(MACH3_CXX_STANDARD GLOBAL PROPERTY MACH3_CXX_STANDARD)
 if(NOT DEFINED MACH3_CXX_STANDARD)
diff --git a/cmake/Modules/CIValidations.cmake b/cmake/Modules/CIValidations.cmake
index ce7f232..5af2b61 100755
--- a/cmake/Modules/CIValidations.cmake
+++ b/cmake/Modules/CIValidations.cmake
@@ -1,5 +1,6 @@
 option(MaCh3Tutorial_UNITTESTS_ENABLED "Whether to build MaCh3 Unit Tests" OFF)
-option(MaCh3Tutorial_Coverage_ENABLED "Whether to build MaCh3 Coverage " OFF)
+option(MaCh3Tutorial_Coverage_ENABLED "Whether to build MaCh3 Coverage" OFF)
+option(MaCh3Tutorial_Benchmark_ENABLED "Enable benchmarking" ON) # WARNING FIXME
 
 CPMAddPackage(
   NAME NuMCMCTools
@@ -14,7 +15,7 @@ install(DIRECTORY
     DESTINATION ${CMAKE_BINARY_DIR}/NuMCMCTools)
 
 ############################  Catch2/CTest  ####################################
-if(MaCh3Tutorial_UNITTESTS_ENABLED)
+if(MaCh3Tutorial_UNITTESTS_ENABLED OR MaCh3Tutorial_Benchmark_ENABLED)
   find_package(Catch2 QUIET)
   if(NOT Catch2_FOUND)
     CPMAddPackage("gh:catchorg/Catch2@3.5.2")