BMWCCR race report

#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:

#31

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]

You want to drive in the enduro at CMP in February?

#32

David White wrote:

The new enduro season is quickly approaching…

#33

Alright Dave, we can enduro my car for the NASA event, yours at the Club Race. :slight_smile: Sounds fair.

#34

jim Pantas wrote:

shhhh, don’t tell anyone :wink:

michael davidson wrote:

possibly…supposed to be at vir that weekend but might be able to do the enduro on friday…might already have a car lined up but will let you know…do you have a fat boy seat? lol

Craig Geiger wrote:

so i noticed :stuck_out_tongue:

Michael Skeen wrote:

hmm, you drive a hard bargain…

#35

David White wrote:

I think you will fit in it haha. It’s not a wide seat though. How tall are you?

#36

michael davidson wrote:

5’10"

what kind of seat do you have? i can fit in most "regular" size seats (sparco evo, pro 2k, etc)

#37

He said how tall are you, not how wide are you:P

Nice job on The IP cahmpionship

#38

Damion Moses wrote:

:frowning:

thanks!

#39

David White wrote:

[quote]michael davidson wrote:

5’10"

what kind of seat do you have? i can fit in most "regular" size seats (sparco evo, pro 2k, etc)[/quote]

Well I’m 5’10" so you should be good. The seat is a MOMO Cup GT which is the same width as most sparco’s.