BMWCCR race report

#11

John - it was nice meeting you as well, glad you learned a lot. I wish I had taken the time to do that type of research (and listened to what I was told). Unfortunately like most of my lessons they came from hard knocks. Especially listen to everything Patton told you, he’s forgotten more about building these cars then 95% of us know.

Scott et al. – Merry Xmas from Bimmerworld and Factory 3 Performance. Don’t say these guys never gave you anything! Seriously remember to always help the people that help you!

http://racing.brandnewengine.com/traqmate/roebling_12_9_07

Here are the keys to the kingdom I’ll lead everyone to water but I’m not going to hold the cup and twisty straw. These files are me, James Clay, and Chuck. You’ll have to guess who is who, and do your own interpretation. If you want to hire me as your data engineer give me a call I’m available to explain anything you like, haha.

I’ll also tell you from very recent experience (ie Sunday). Knowing what to do is half the battle, doing it is the other half. Some of this stuff is very subtle and some is obvious and some is just two brass balls knocking together.

Thanks again to Clay for spoiling any of my car related excuses.

#12

Been wanting a traqmate bad. Chuck any chance for a group by?

A traqmate and a new motor coming soon. You boys are gonna be in trouble next season:woohoo:

#13

That Traqmate data is too cool. It’s really interesting seeing the lap times of first lap, having to brake for everyone, vs the second lap. It’s a 30-40 second difference. I never would have guessed that.

Jim, I’m assuming your lap is the one that says "Jim Robinson"?:stuck_out_tongue:

John

#14

Thanks Jim for sharing. Boy that’s some speed.

For those who do not have a Traqmate, there is a free program to view these runs.

Go to:
http://www.traqmate.com/share_download.php
and down the Traqview program to view the files.

#15

John Haynie wrote:

Can’t fool you guys, I did try to keep James and I unique but we did share the enduro, etc. so some of my cr@ppy laps are polluting his.

#16

Now if only someone could show me how compare this traqmate data to my Racepak G2X data???

#17

Video of Sunday’s sprint race, start and some assorted highlights.

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-866410339492595968&hl=en

#18

LOL @ 4:25!

You think Nissen had fun in his first race? :ohmy: :woohoo: Surely he wants a SE30 by now.

#19

He’s starting to get angry everytime we mention it.

I’ve tried to organize an amish barn raising where we steal his car and return it spec e30 legal.

4.25… whoops. I get a little carried away.

I think I touched off ww3 on BF with that video.

#20

Jim, here’s my clips from the Sunday sprint. My favorite part was the start, where everybody moved over and gave me room to move way up.

At the 6:00 mark, you enter the scene as we invert for the SE30 race-within-a-race. My race got hosed after I spun avoiding the white car. I ended up half on pavement, which I why my first movement after restarting the car was backwards!

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3520961216459492215&hl=en

Here is the first half of the Saturday enduro, with Seth driving my car, and chasing Clay driving Jim’s #008
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6140895864342250294&hl=en

#21

Chuck - do you and Seth find that hitting the windshield wipers makes you go faster?

#22

Shh, you just gave away the only speed secret I picked up from the video footage.

Now I’m going to have to buckle down and actually learn how to drive.

Thanks for the big mouth, Bub!

That reminds me, though, of something else funny that happened to Seth.

I warned him before the race about the magic shiftknob that will pop off sometimes. It never happens to me so I forget to fix it, but he said that during the race it came off a few times.

The first time it flew down into the footwell and rattled around for awhile. Eventually, on the straight, he spotted it down by the pedals, worked it backwards with his left foot, and was able to reach down and pick it up. The virtue of long arms I guess.

That must have been a nice bit of multitasking. Too bad the camera wasn’t wide-angle enough to pick up the gymnastic routine.

#23

Chuck,
Thanks for posting the videos. It was pretty fun watching Seth and James duke it out in Spec E30 cars. I thought it was interesting how Seth keeps it in 4th gear all the way from T6 onto the front straight. Seems like he lost some ground every time through there. Looks like you guys had a great weekend.

#24

Chuck Taylor wrote:

[quote]
The first time it flew down into the footwell and rattled around for awhile. Eventually, on the straight, he spotted it down by the pedals, worked it backwards with his left foot, and was able to reach down and pick it up. The virtue of long arms I guess.

That must have been a nice bit of multitasking. Too bad the camera wasn’t wide-angle enough to pick up the gymnastic routine.[/quote]

Its not like there is a whole lot going on in the straights in our HP monsters. :side:

#25

You can’t beat TraqMate for evaluating your laps compared to someone who can drive better. It sure beats the "follow Patton as he goes off" routine that I almost did saturday morning at Roebling. Between him and Chuck I thought the fastest way around Roebling involved dirt shortcuts - unfortunately I had built a lead on them when the Panther’s engine started banging like an old steam locomotive :angry:

I have a TraqMate on my list for Factory 3 Santa this year…

#26

Chuck Taylor wrote:

[quote]Shh, you just gave away the only speed secret I picked up from the video footage.
[/quote]
strategic use of windshield wipers (moveable aero device? :blink: ) and fishing around for loose parts in the cabin is what separates the "pros" from the "joes" :stuck_out_tongue:

thanks for posting the vid, definitely fun to watch those guys go at it!

#27

Here it is from the team coat tail car. Not as much action since Clay was in front most of the time :laugh:

You’ll have to download the video if you want to watch 380mb or so, Google’s dark grainy video quality makes me sad.

#28

David, when are you gonna sell that monster car of yours and build a SpecE30? You know the racing is better!

#29

Chuck Taylor wrote:

i need to whore out some more co-drives to make sure i like spec e30 :stuck_out_tongue:

#30

David White wrote:

[quote]Chuck Taylor wrote:

i need to whore out some more co-drives to make sure i like spec e30 :P[/quote]
:blink: me thinks you’re just skeered :silly: