VIR 13 hr enduro

[BLINGMW]

Well, while Ryan's team was all busy being slow, Bimmerworld brought a nuke to a gunfight in order to demonstrate a modern tortoise and hare story. Our very clean, well prepped (for sprint racing) e36M3 with built S54 showed up about 10 min into the 30 min qualifying session on Friday evening. James took it straight off the trailer, ran maybe 3 laps, hit someone and destroyed the front splitter. We had qualified 1st by almost a full second. :lol: Zip ties and duct tape got the bumper back together, sans splitter.



We were out front for a few hours until our shifter broke. Lost ~4 laps fixing that. While making up for lost time, some rough driving broke a radiator mount, damaged one of two oil coolers, oil getting into alternator, a big mess. Some zip ties and oil cooler bypass later, we were back out, maybe in 30 somethingth place out of 90+ cars. 1st wasn't an option anymore unless the top 2 crashed out, but we could realistically get back up to 3rd or 4th. Heck our fast lap was 4+ sec better than anyone else, and there was a lot of race to go. Somewhere around 8:15, things were looking pretty good. We were in 9th and climbing. Then the nuke went off in the right rear:



I don't really know what happened back there. But it spun the car, ended up partially off track, a few cars went by, then a Honda was out for a pass, I guess not paying attention, (the yellow had to be out, but who knows, it was dark as hell) and went straight into the back of us. :dunno:



Game over man!