BMW "Driver Education"

Well, in reality, some member of the BMW club (he's some big time doctor) privately rented out the track for the morning, and let anyone who was a member of teh BMW club come out and go as hard and as long as they wanted to on the racetrack. I went to take pictures and try out the new camera, but I was peer-pressured into taking the 'Ring Taxi, as they affectionaly named it, out for 5 runs or 3 laps each. Here is what happened(and yes, I had 5 people in my car at the time)


That car^ is the 335i(twin turbo). He's got teh new intake manifold, and other boost adding goodies plus fully adjustable software. He's pushing over 400lbs of torque at 1800rpms at the wheels, no lies.





Unfortunatley those are the only photos that turned out decent. I'll try to touch some up to make them look presentable. And bare in mind, I was playing with all the settings, so most of the pictures look like shit
And jsut for reference sake, my fastest time(with 5 people in the car) was 1.54 mark, while my dad in the '97 ///M3 did it in 1.51, some guy in a z3 2.8L did it in 1.58, and a guy in a '96 318iT did it in 2.00. I figures I did farely decent for what I had... I'll be uploading an in-car video as soon as I figure out how to

Sickness, I love the 335i. You should get some coillies on your car!

Well here is a link to me takign my boat of a car around the track. tires had 32psi in them. 4 people in the car, and I had the transmission in sport mode. the rattling you hear is the change in my ashtray sliding around.
http://www.new.facebook.com/video/video.php?v=39249855774

Aha, so this is the suprize! Looks like a fun time man and your car actually did pretty darn good for all the factors haha.

Where was Jason? Or is he some sort of BMW outcast?

he doesn't fancy the idea of being at the track at 8am.

FlyingBrick wrote:

he doesn't fancy the idea of being at the track at 8am.

Sounds like he should join a Honda club or something

FlyingBrick wrote:

Well, in reality, some member of the BMW club (he's some big time doctor) privately rented out the track for the morning, and let anyone who was a member of teh BMW club come out and go as hard and as long as they wanted to on the racetrack. I went to take pictures and try out the new camera, but I was peer-pressured into taking the 'Ring Taxi, as they affectionaly named it, out for 5 runs or 3 laps each. Here is what happened(and yes, I had 5 people in my car at the time)


That car^ is the 335i(twin turbo). He's got teh new intake manifold, and other boost adding goodies plus fully adjustable software. He's pushing over 400lbs of torque at 1800rpms at the wheels, no lies.





Unfortunatley those are the only photos that turned out decent. I'll try to touch some up to make them look presentable. And bare in mind, I was playing with all the settings, so most of the pictures look like shit
And jsut for reference sake, my fastest time(with 5 people in the car) was 1.54 mark, while my dad in the '97 ///M3 did it in 1.51, some guy in a z3 2.8L did it in 1.58, and a guy in a '96 318iT did it in 2.00. I figures I did farely decent for what I had... I'll be uploading an in-car video as soon as I figure out how to

Why do i only see three?

we weren't taping the run that time. unlike events at the QCMA, we get to do as many runs as we want(as we usually have very few people come out), so I got a few times to try out the car before we decided to tape a run.
And I'll try to get a list of all the official times once they are posted.

what was the course layout

Nice! I've been lookin for a course overhead view forever! Did you draw it?

no, Alan Fong(the guy who rented the track) drew it out, along with all teh other possible track layouts that we voted on