ALBundy
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astroboy;465957 said:We E90s were really out numbered by the E30s and E36s where the latter swept all the Group B trophies. Our steady Alalio's time wasn't bad at all for a non regular spirited driver and despite in Group B, I think he beat most of the Group A time :top: I had to take my hats off for Alalio for being such a sport! I want to interview him when we next meet on whether how hard he pushed or was he just cruising..
Its a pity that non of the regular spirited 6-potter E9x gang joined the competition, it should give the E36s even the 3.2Ls a run for their trophies.David, Rachel, Traveler and SouthIsland did show up to support us E9x gang and even bought lunch for us. :top:
My test run was messy, missed the last narrow right bender before existing the first sector car park and managed to only clock 1:02:xx.
If I not mistaken, all my 3 timed run was 1.01.xx. Can't do any better. Running on 28k km old mostly wife driven CSC2 OEM 225/45R17 RFT inflated to 230/280kpa (max recommended on the B-Pillar), half tank RON97, 5k km old SC Syntium LL engine at at MAX level, off DSC, off aircond, both front windows down, both rear window with an inch opening, DS shift mode, keep punching the accelerator to keep the DS mode lock down to low gear and of course some messy handbrake turns in round-abouts...
The sector 1 slalom was a piece of cake with a tricky narrow right bender at the end before exiting car park. The uphill straight after exiting the sector 1 car park is where all the good power to weight ratio car had all the advantage.
After the climb, is a big tricky right bender over loose ball bearing gravels. If you time your speed and entering angle right, you can instill a slight drift here due to the loose ball bearing gravel, again, FUN!! Then downhill slalom section where the car felt different due to the down slope where we will experience front heavy, light rear. Exiting the downhill slalom is a another full throttle section aim for the 1st round-about.
The first counter clockwise round-about was fun I think due to the down hill momentum and the sweet angle entering the round-about. The 2nd round-about was a bit nervous with the nearby cones from the slalom in sector 1, so can't run too wide. Exiting 2nd round-about was fun with a slight oversteer, screeching and smoking rear, with a slight counter steer, until many over shot the car park.... especially XXX..
Powering the car in both round-abouts were the biggest problem because rear body roll and limited wheel traction with one rear wheel tend to lift and spin in the air. This is where Fabian took all the advantage with his LSD clock an amazing 0.57.00 !!
Fabian's first run was 0.58.00 but knocked a cone, so plus 2 sec and became 1.00.00... I still got chance.. but on Fabian's 2nd run, it was 0.57.00, I surrender lio... so just throw the car around for fun only nia... Fabian's time was the time clocked by Ivan Khong in the Z4M !!
No offense to the 5-series, but watching them tip-toeing around the cones is like watching elephant ballerinas. They can really smoke their tyres powering out of round-abouts. Both Jerman and XXX did win the audience's applause just for this... :top:
Both Zoggee and Fabian's E30 did put up some amazing drift and smoke show :top:
Please don't take me wrong, I may have the right to brag now :15: but no.. I'm just sharing my experience here and hope to gain more in exchange.. :wink:
My rear tyres are worn out nicely, smoothly and evenly, but my front is chipping like Fabian's rear drift tyres..
I keep telling Enkil my handbrake turns very messy and so he asked me how to do it... I share some messy handbrake tricks I did and he was determined to learn the trick... I realised later, our friend is using an E36 3.2L la! Why handbrake? He has all the power he need to play with his belakang.. we 4-potter underpower ma, that's why need handbrake ma..
Many interaction between participants were going on sharing their experience. And so I shared mine here unselfishly... hope to hear more experience here.. :wink:
Some beautiful photos taken by my good friend Bob of my blackie in action..
Charging at the 2nd round-about..
At the exact moment handbrake is pulled..
Trying to pedal my way out..
STOP THE CLOCK!!! you all can see, its a huge car park, which is still not enough for some..
Seriously, I'm not bragging.. :26:
Astroboy, good write up!!
Alalio was on a mission to prove to everyone that he is a REAL Driver, more so after the Singapore drive LOL!!
As usual, the tricky part is always the roundabouts. Most cars will go in too fast and resulting in an understeer situation, the trick is to go in slow and power out. In other words, oversteer has nothing to do with speed. Of course if you have a LSD behind, it will be a lot easier, just need to learn to feather the throttle
Again, considering this is the first gymkhana for most of you, all I can say is everyone did very well!:top::top:
Cheers
