klodkrawler05's One Lap Experience

Thanks everyone! It's been a blast! Our only regret so far has been that we waited 2 years before doing this! We kill time on transits talking about next year

Brock sells one hell of a drug!

Yesterday at Road Atlanta was "a good ole fashioned big boy track"

Matt has been there before so we elected him to drive while I hang out and do parade laps. He was there in August last year and ran 1:41's on re71's and no aero.

This year on lesser tires with the aero I was timing him at low 1:39's on stop watch so the tires don't suck and the mods seem to be working.

We knocked out a 13th overall morning finish and 14th in the afternoon. Bumping us up to 16th overall

We're now at Sebring which is another big boy undies track. Matt is driving again and I'll tackle CMP tomorrow.

Our starting position in grid is humous. We can't even hear that our car is running

Coming off track, time to pack up and leave!

Interesting phenomenon, every time we pack this space gets larger. We originally had this stuffed with gear:

Great choice, awesome looking exterior. Any more interior shots? I'm curious about the bucket seat. Is it on sliders or are both of your drivers the same height?

Keep up the posts! -Durty

And we are en route to GRM HQ. the all seeing google says 2 hours ETA at our current pace and traffic.

Started today at Sebring with an awesome hotel room view of the racetrack:

Did some more track stuff! Rather uneventful (good) day for us with this many events under our belts the results are somewhat stabilized. Our overall position hasn't changed the last several days although most of us are getting 5 less points per session now that the RS boys have a new engine in the EVO and are back in action:

Forgot to share this picture a few days ago, we chatted with the guy and he was quite nice, his close buddy has a BMW so the plate was in jest of that:

We tried live streaming from the roof of the car, Sebring is too bumpy for that. Amazingly the phone survived tumbling off at speed with these scuffs as the only damage

Since Durty asked about the interior, figured I'd give a few glimpses into the transit side of the event. The seat is a fixed back Corbeau hard mounted to the floor, Matt and I are similar heights (we're sharing one driving suit for this event for less to pack)

During transit the Bimmerworld race shifted is surrounded by caffeine and cables:

This little USB splitter turns one cigarette lighter into 5 usb charging ports and has been invaluable. Bonus it accidentally fits perfectly in the coin tray area next to the aux input which keeps us supplied with Spotify tunes:

The upper dash consists of a ram tablet mount, where we monkey around with race capture, stream funny YouTube videos late at night during transit or study the next track, as well as a nifty phone mount that clips onto an air vent to keep the drivers phone in plain sight. We're running Waze and Spotify from this phone as the waze audio overrides the music to ensure we know about upcoming police, never miss an exit or highway change:

The rollbar does make packing the back seat area tricky but the stock passenger seat flips forward to allow a little more access room:

And lastly, snacks, conveniently located under the co-pilot seat: hand wipes, a map and some Tylenol in case the "because racecar" nature of the exhaust and solid suspension bits become too much (so far so good) also forgive my legs.

And finally. A picture of Matt talking to JG during the live stream/passage control:

Very cool to meet you guys, and have a great event.

Leaving now for CMP. Posted my cell number in mazduece's thread if you guys need anything.

Steve

Well on a quick recap of the other OLOA threads it looks like I missed out on meeting some more GRM members. My head wasn't in it today, I was mentally unprepared, I have multiple excuses but they're just that.

The morning was decent, found CMP'S surface to be low on grip Sleepyheads tips helped me make the most of a few tricky corners and the kink was a good test of braveness.

The afternoon I was far more prepared. Studied video from my morning session and made mentals notes of spots to improve. First turn out it became obvious the grip was gone. The track was greased right up. Did my warm up lap a bit slower than the usual "race pace" in an effort to keep tires cooler. I then proceeded to ignore my mental warnings about grip being low.

That resulted in a spectacular display of Ice mode late braking into turn 1 and using every inch of available surface. Ok messaged received. "Don't be a dummy"

My line for the rest of the session was much smoother and better than the morning. Excitingly as I was heading towards the kink on lap 2 I saw the yellow flag out, looking ahead I saw smoke and a corvette facing backwards in the midst of turning around.

Approaching the kink i could see he spun a good ways down track so the coast was clear to carry on my lap.

Despite my better line, the lap 1 bobble and momentary slowing of pace netted me a time 6 seconds slower than the morning. The really pointy end guys went 5 seconds slower so I'm ok with that.

And we learned a very important OLOA lesson. To finish well you must finish consistently. The vette that spun lost so much time/many points that we bumped up ahead of him. And are now sitting 15th overall! Which is at least 20 spots higher than we expected to finish heading into this.

Awesome... glad to here you're learning the OneLap lessons both great and small

I was not envying these guys this morning as we finally got the rain we had been hoping for

Note to self next year bring bigger tarp:

Session one looked to be pretty quick for us and then on lap 2 we overshot a turn a little bit, thankfully Matt was able to scrub most of his speed, drive off and then back on and continue. That bobble cost us some time but we still took a 15th overall. No damage to the car!

Session 2 was drying. We got bumped up a run group (score we can leave even earlier!) Matt drove cleanly and was visibly reeling in some cars in our session that are normally much faster than us in dry conditions. That wound up being good for an 11th overall finish. We are now 6.5 ish hours from the hotel provided we manage to avoid deer, trafffic and bored police in our "street car cleverly disguised as a race car"

This thing looks awesome for conditions like today, pops up and down with one button and single person operational unlike an ez up.

And because the audio is just too glorious not to share, this is the s54 at full song around Road Atlanta: Glorious noises

Glad to hear the off track excursion didn't result in any damage. Sorry to have missed you at CMP, but every time I looked over I didn't see anybody near your car. I wasn't 100% sure that was your car, but seeing photos now I am sure that was your car. I wasn't sure about the Bimmerworld stickers.

I am home. I am tired. I had too much fun!

I'll recap some more tomorrow but for now...sleep. Maybe a local autox event in the morning if I wake up in time.

Was great to meet more GRMers today!

Alright!

When I last left off we left Dominion on quite the high after a superb rain drive by Matt netting us an 11th place overall finish in the afternoon! Our overall for the week hadn't shifted and we still sat in 14th overall.

The 720 mile drive to MI wasn't nearly as bad as we anticipated due to the oval being canceled due to rain. We arrived at our hotel in South Haven at 11:55pm which resulted in us being the luckiest lap puppies ever never arriving at a hotel after midnight.

Gingerman is home track for me and very familiar turf for the RS boys. We took the opportunity to not walk the track and bled brakes and rotated tires. Not that we were in dire need of either but we figured it prudent to prevent any last day drama.

Session 1 is where I knew I'd have the biggest advantage over those who've never been there and it went off great, I had a few spots I'd been playing over and over in my head that I usually mess up. I mostly nailed those. Woo! that resulted in a 12th overall finish for the morning.

Here's a one lap from that: youtube linky

My goal for the afternoon was to do more of the same and just manage the time as best I could knowing that some of the big HP cars would likely beat us in the afternoon now that they've sighted the track at speed. That happened. a big turbo 1M and a 5th gen z28 snuck past in the afternoon dropping my afternoon finish down to a 14th overall.

That kept us in 14th overall with just the dry skid pad to go. We had been chipping away points at the couple cars ahead of us but save for a significant bobble we weren't likely to move up in position but the teams in 15th and 16th overall were in easy striking range should we bobble.

Since we only had 60 miles to transit for the final day we stopped for ice cream at Shermans had far too much delicious frozen sugar then headed to the hotel for the final night party.

Saturday dawned and there was an odd feeling of emptiness. We didn't have to rush to an event to see the track before hot laps started, there was no car prep to be done and we knew after the skidpad we were done

Off to the skidpad, Things went well for us, we tied for 16th on the skidpad which we assumed would solidify us in 14th overall.

While watching other competitors we saw the 12th place GTR spin off through the lights effectively killing one direction of the skidpad. Could we move up?

Alas, no, Mike Maier who had been sitting 13th about 100 points ahead of us had an amazing run on the skidpad this bumped him up into the 12th spot and the GTR held 13th just 90 points ahead of us!

Still, we couldn't complain about finishing our first one lap 14th overall and 2nd highest rookie of the year behind Mike Maier!

A couple pictures from gingerman:

All done! we don't look as tired as we felt:

And we won our class! cool!

We've already started talking about next year (still 50.5 weeks away ugh!) and have a few ideas one of them being take my car instead of Matt's:

Congrats!!! You guys did great.

Ohh, I see an intercooler there SC?

You guys are what makes people come back. Fast and nice and helpful and excited to bring more speed next year. I'm glad we got you over to Howard for maple syrup shots. You have officially left your lap puppy status behind.
I'm looking forward to see you two again next year, the "fast" car, and whoever else you can convince to join you in this lunacy.

"You people" are going to be cited in the court documents for the reason I get divorced. lol

It's law to stop at Shermans whenever you are at Gingerman

Slippery wrote: Congrats!!! You guys did great. Ohh, I see an intercooler there SC?

Thanks! yes indeed, it's got an ESSTuning supercharger kit on it, supposed to be 550hp crank hp but I haven't made it to a dyno yet to verify. aside from the added power it's nearly identically setup to Matt's car which we took this year.

needs more aero

And 345's. We all know 345's are where the big boys play.

Klod, those hood vents rock...custom made or part of a mega $$$ hood package thingy?

sleepyhead wrote: needs more aero

I was working on that last night actually should have a similarly fashioned aero package setup before Gridlife in June

mazdeuce wrote: And 345's. We all know 345's are where the big boys play.

That might be.....a stretch! we are fairly confident we can fit 295's without any visual modification to the fenders (weak) 305's seem like they'd be in the "yea they were a little tough to fit under there" category....315's....that's where I want to be next year. Likely will require similar front fender work to what the RS boys did although we will have an easier time fitting them in back than they did.

The "one lap" part of that is the tires in 315 widths are not generally tires you'd chose for OLOA, so maybe we stop at 305 but on a very wide wheel to maximize our width... idk, still too far away to know. Route would also potentially play into tire selection

759NRNG wrote: Klod, those hood vents rock...custom made or part of a mega $$$ hood package thingy?

They're part of the mega $$$ vorsteiner carbon fiber GTR style hood. the painted hood with exposed carbon vents looks amazing although I don't think functionally it works as well as the Track Spec hood vents for e46 (which are also far cheaper)

Klod, big thanks for the Track Spec lead...looking to see if the C6 vent will work on my 2nd gen V

759NRNG wrote: Klod, big thanks for the Track Spec lead...looking to see if the C6 vent will work on my 2nd gen V

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