Hello everyone!
My name is Miguel and I have been lurking about the forum off and on for about two years now. When I first started getting serious about my interests to get on the track I researched the different spec series as well as looked at chump and lemons. My cousin has a chumps/lemons team up in the DC area and they invited me up to race with them about a year and a half back. That was a lot of fun. A little too loose with the safety though.
The se30 series interested me the most but the economics of life pushed me into chumps. More seat time and I could share the expenses with a couple of buddies. Before long we bought our first e30, a real beater. Ended up spinning our wheels a lot. And the project was a still born… It quietly waits for something to happen.
Fast forward a little time and a really clean m30 e30 came up on craigslist. Still enamored with the platform I pick it up. Been driving it off and on over the last year.
Signed up for Nasa mid summer and by the first event of this year I was able to get out on the track (Homestead Motor Speedway). It was a great experience. I got to meet a few of the local se30 guys and gals (Shawn, Natalie, Carlos, Jay, Michael, and Don). Its good to see a tight group of friends enjoy the class together. Nasa paired me up with an e30 driver, Michael Strasser, as my instructor; which was awesome. It was great to have someone knowledgeable with the car in the car to show me around the track.
I am not rushing into w2w at the moment but when I do I am fairly certain it will be in a se30 so I wanted to say hello and get familiar with what the class is all about and enjoy the company. Maybe by next year I will be looking into the buy/build question. For now getting track time and building my familiarity with the car is my goal.
Regards,
Miguel