http://bimmer.roadfly.org/bmw/forums/e46m3/forum.php?postid=3256415&page=1
Too bad, it was a nice car (brakes, wheels suspensions, ...)!
Too bad, it was a nice car (brakes, wheels suspensions, ...)!
rain = attention
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Another bad part is that I just sold them that Brembo front and rear big brake kit, SSR comps and Michelin Pilot Sport cups a week before the event. That's about $7000.00 worth of goodies! He had about another $5000.00 of other extra's installed at the same time from the shop I sold the upgrades to. Not fun 
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Ps- The sport cups can be groved for the rain or not for the dry. These were the dry version, on a newly wet track
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Ps- The sport cups can be groved for the rain or not for the dry. These were the dry version, on a newly wet track
Really sorry to hear that. Good thing is that the driver was ok. Sadly the car sounds totaled after all the money was invested. But it's just money, money comes and goes. We only have one life....
Man that probably hurt.
note to myself - don't take my own car to the track unless i become a rich guy...
tararan said:
From what I understand, since we own NSX's that automatically makes up rich..
The way the rear left rim is torn apart concerns me... it looks like they have little strength in them at all (almost like plastic)
i think the tyres are designed like that; for varying weather/road conditions. but i'm no expert.
i think the tyres are designed like that; for varying weather/road conditions. but i'm no expert.
Why does everything happen to those Bimmer guys?
Joel said:
Interesting you should say that. On 8/9 at Pocono, there was a new M3 (heard less than 1,000 miles), that got totalled. He didn't negotiate the righthander on the backstraight (running 3 mile Double Infield configuration), went off track, hit a concrete barrier and rolled over. He was stretchered off but I heard he was ok. I also heard he had been blackflagged (for lack of track courtesy I think) 2x in that run and ignored them until the crash.
Here is one from May @ Road America. He was in front of me in the advanced group @ the braking markers going into 5. At first we thought the wheel failed....SSR Competition which have failed on other cars prior. We later found out the motor blew, throwing connecting rod back to the tire and caused the spin into the wall and then again into the wall across the track. Noone hurt.
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Joel said:
there are just more bimmers on the road/track than NSX's.
but maybe its the demographics?
