List is updated above

 

Can we just show up and watch? If so, do you know the times the Minis will be running?

 

First car out should be aroun 9 AM and it should go until about 4:30 give or take. The cars will be randomly put into the four run groups, so MINIs should be out on course throughout the event.

 

It's almost time !!!!!!!! woot woot!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

A group of MINI's will be leaving at 4.20am Saturday morning for this event.

If you would like to join us the address to meet is:

1950 Sepulveda Blvd.
Los Angeles
CA 90025

It's right off of the Santa Monica 405 Exit.

See ya'll tomorrow bright and birds chirp early.

 

Did anyone see my slippers ( Quicksilver) at the event? I believe I left them where we all sat around. Next to the pink chairs. Let me know if anyone seen them.

thanks
jimmy

 

Oh, man, I saw them, but I didn't grab them, since I didn't know who they belonged to. Sorry.

 

I am tired and drunk, so the pictures are unedited and the web page is not working as it's supposed to, but here is a link:

Auto X pictures

I will put up some videos as soon as Google processes them.

 

I had a BLAST today....... Jimmy, Roy, Dave, Joe and everyone else that I didnt get your name, THANK YOU

 

good to see everyone there.

here are my photos: http://www.motoringunderground.com/f...?t=1937&page=2

 

It was nice to see everyone again! Hope my car is broken in properly, going into 700 miles woooohooo. Hope to see you all next week's event.
Hollis3, Jerry, those pictures look awesome!! Love them.
Here's my pictures I took at the event. add comments if you like.
http://flickr.com/photos/92238457@N0...7594192839709/

Also, you can't go with this video of Matt!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gHyHTkjUS4c

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsD_TT6JpxQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W51RkkWBrDg

Jimmy

 

Charlie,

You got second place and a trophy. Next time in SD make sure you pick it up. You can also contact Gordon via e-mail and he'll make sure it's there for you. Go to their website sdbmwcca.com of his e-mail addy.

I ended up with fast BMW time of the day only to find out during the awards that Mini's aren't BMWs so they gave that trophy to a M Modified guy.

Other than that dissapointment, I had a blast. The F1 simulators were cool, hanging with the Mini crowd was cool and whooping up on the M Modifieds was cool.

Once again, a good time was had by all (except maybe the red M3, ouch).

 

Aside from the unfortunate M3 crash (this was only the second auto-x crash at a BMW event in 22 years...the other being a minor fendor bendor), I had loads of fun.

It was great meeting everybody and I'm glad you guys made the trek down from LA. Congratulations on the great time Rory!!! Until we all meet again, I'll see all you all on the boards.

Joe

 

Charlie,

What kind of tires were you running?

 

dood I saw them but didnt pick them up because i thought they belonged to the bmw guy.

Anyway, it was a great day, I had lots of fun, and am content with my time considering the circumstances.

I hope ya'll had a good time.

 

Charlie was running some nice sticky 60 treadwear Yoko Advans 215/45R17.

Charlie, sorry I didnt pick up your trophy, all of us L.A. folks left in a hurry, and didnt stick around for prize giving :(.

Jimmy, thanks for posting that vid of me creating my own autocross course. Email me the full version of the vid if you can. THanks.

Glad you all had a good time.

Joe, was nice meeting you.

 

Here are the videos I shot with my digital. There is a lot of quality degration (pixalation, can't see the far away cones) which is not present on the original videos. If anyone wants a copy I can set up a download link. They are about 28mb each. Hope you like it:

Teresa's first three runs. She got her times down to 82.05 before the BMW crash and the course change.

Rory's run. I only got one of his. He ended the day with a time of low 75's.

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_lis...CA62A7EFBC9FE7

 

To the person that asked about tires Matt is right, Yoko Advan R048 215/45/17 (offset +42mm)

Matt / Rory - Thanks for the heads up on the trophy - I will go back down again sometime soon, had a blast. Much nicer with a longer course and elevation changes than what I have done at other autocrosses.

Sorry been off the boards getting up at 3AM was hard enough, but after driving back to L.A., I went curling until 10PM and had to help set up which included moving about 50 stones that weigh 42 lbs each !!!

this morning I feel like a train ran over me

Best,

- Charlie

 

Here are a couple of them: orginal files
http://intranet.sxpress.com/~jim/bmwcca/

 

RESULTS and PICTURES have been posted on the SDBMWCCA site.

"Fastest BMW Time of Day" was in ///M Modified
32 75.2 MM Ted D BMW M3 Fast BMW Time of the Day

But Rory was quicker!

25 75.1 MC Rory H Mini Cooper S Mini Cooper 1st
20 77.83 MC Charles E Mini Cooper S Mini Cooper 2nd
40 79.88 MC Joseph H Mini Cooper S
23 80.42 MC Jerry P Mini Cooper S
22 81.89 MC David B Mini Cooper
19 82.31 MC Matt R MINI Cooper S
26 85.02 MC Paul M MINI Cooper
64 85.15 MC Hai P MINI Cooper S
21 85.28 MC Jimmy S Mini Cooper S
24 86.35 MC Teresa P Mini Cooper S

 

Here are links to the google videos. Much better quality for some reason:

Teresa 1st run

Teresa 2nd run

Teresa 3rd run

Rory's run

 

Cool vid Jerry (mine Teresa :-)). That was my first lap of the day with an instructor that wouldn't get out of the car after his "show me the track" drive.

 

Here are the results from the day... (finally got them off the damn camera)