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Hey guys, it was great seeing everybody up there.
I really thought more people would of shown up tho, as we only had about 8 or so 335i's there.
As expected, track prep was significantly better today than a few weeks ago when there was none and it was like ice!
People were actually getting some decent traction. That's relative for LACR as it never has ATCO like traction. But the guys were cutting 2.0 60' times. And the officials there, actually stopped the runs about an hour in and sprayed down more DHT which aids in traction even more.
So, ET's were good because of the traction, but traps were down because of the heat (low 70's at 10 am, warmed to low 80's by 1 pm).
Everyone of course did their best runs in the first hour or so.
Once it started to heat up too much times increased.
Terry had the best time of the day at 13.27 @ 105 as would be expected as he had the most mods, the least weight and the only one with DR's.
Nice work Terry.
There was two guys with PROcedes.
Jon has a PROcede only in his car, everything else bone stock.
He ran a 13.398 @ like 104.
Very good considering all else was stock he had 1/2 tank of gas and at 230ish pounds is no lightweight like myself (165 lbs.)
SoCal335i also ran a 13.3x @ 104 as well in his PROcede coupe, but I think he also has exhaust, lowered suspension, and aftermarket wheels/tires.
Turbo Tuner cars were running 13.7's best @ 102+
The surprise of the day was HotRod162's car.
He has a factory freak!
He ran a 13.46 @ about 101-102 on a totally bone stock auto sedan!
He was averaging like 13.8's @ 101 and getting 2.0-2.1 60 ' times on the stock runflats!
He didn't even manually shift, just put it in DS and ran.
The only other stock car there was running 13.9's best, and averaging 14.0's @ 100
He did a heads up race with one of the turbo tuner guys. HotRod got the jump, but the Turbo Tuner car reeled him in BARELY and won the race by like .04 seconds and trap of about 1 mph more.
HotRod definitely has a keeper of a car, she runs like the wind!! Nice work Warren!
Of course because of the ridiculous DA, the 335i's walked all over the E46 M3's which were all in the low to mid 14's best.
The s/c M3's were running low 13's.
It was great fun for me just meeting everyone and watching.
I wish I had my car to run today too, but oh well, another time.
Everyone was great, and I think we showed the mostly Audi crowd that the BMW's are fast cars.
To give you guys a better idea of the conditions up there.
There was a guy with a bone stock Mercedes CLS 63 AMG.
Very nice guy and he was impressed with the 335i's.
He hasn't been racing too long, but his best time in the CLS 63 was a
13.3 @ 107+
Even he admitted that today was the best traction he's ever gotten at LACR, but still was having difficulty getting out of the gates without spinning too much...welcome to LACR, even on it's best of traction days, it stinks!
Take care all, will let the racers chime in with their official times.
Good job everyone!
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