CotA: March 20-22, 2015

#4

Man, that’s so awesome. But I’m screwed. My wife will be out of the country that weekend. The boys are I are doing the bachelor thing for 2 weeks. It’s one thing to surprise the wife by taking the boys to an event a state or two away because I refused to miss a race, but COTA is two travel days distant. I’d never get away with that. Sigh.

#5

You know what they say about forgiveness vs permission, right? :wink:

#6

You know what they say about divorcing a lawyer, right?

It’d be like a replay of Terminator 1 where the protagonist is launched out of his world into into a dark and cold alley. Naked.

#7

LOL!

Discretion is the better part of valor.

#8

I’m not familiar with the BMW club racing classes.
Would SpecE30 be it’s own class, or is it a similar enough car for a BMW club class?

#9

Never mind. A quick search revealed that the BMW club recognizes SPECe30.
Tempting. Very tempting.

#10

Give in! More cars == better racing :cheer:

#11

Registered… looking forward to it!

#12

Jeff are you just looking for another southerner to come take over since I won’t be there next year? Kelly you don’t count since you relocated. lol

#13

Look, mister, I don’t care where they come from, actually.

And don’t you have a nursery to paint or something? :slight_smile:

#14

I work two jobs and over 70 hours a week. We already have a color picked out and it will be painted on my next off day. Hopefully just one coat will do. lol I still don’t have the motor back together. Have to finishing putting humpty dumpty back together again over the winter I suppose. Working on a few other thing for the car as well. All it takes is time and money right? lol and also its Mr. Mister to you Pops!!

#15

This is tempting, but that’s a hefty price for an HPDE weekend. I’ll try to at least stop by with some pom-poms for moral support.

#16

Concur it’s a pricey weekend, but I have to say the track is top notch… I’m known for my off road excursions and have to say it’s the smoothest grass I’ve ever driven on (and not just the astroturf). If not this event, definitely put it on your list of tracks to drive given the opportunity

#17

I’m seriously considering this as I grew up in south Texas.
So much that I signed up in BMWCCA last night just in case.
Zach spoke of it being an HPDE.
I was thinking its a race. For specE30’s, will we race or is it a glorified HPDE?
I need a reason to hit some Taco Cabanas and racing at COTA seems like a good excuse!

#18

They are running all of the race classes, and there are separate HPDE groups. There’s also a $55 Autocross happening at some point.

Kelly, I’ll definitely drive that track someday (maybe even for this event). So far, I did get to run the track (literally) last year. If I remember, I clocked a 29 minute lap time.

#19

Just signed up for COTA.
Now I need to badger you Texas guys to come up to Hallett for the NASA race that usually happens in June!

#20

Awesome! Shaping up to be even way more funner than last year :woohoo:

#21

I didn’t receive a Tier 1 or Tier 2 email invite for the COTA event so today was the first day I could register. Looks like I’m in for Friday DE, but the weekend DE was already full. I sent an email about wait-list or other options.

My car is being delivered in a couple weeks, will post up some pics then.

Happy New Year TX Spec E30’ers.

#22

MAD Motorsports out of Miami is bringing a Spec E30 for me to race with you guys. Really looking forward to it!

They have room in their race rig if anyone between FL and Texas needs a haul for their car and wants to race COTA with us, or MAD could just bring another rental. Either way, Diego is the person to talk to: info@themadmotorsports.com

Come say hi in the paddock if you are going - we usually have plenty of the most important thing besides tools & spares = food & beers for after the race.

#23

Awesome!