ChumpCar Racing

[turbotalon1g]

Csm with the 1.6 turblowed would be the shiznit i bet.

[Halon]

Turblow = more gas consumption.

[mlomker]

Not too exciting but a look at the cars.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-A1y73wawrU&hd=1

[Matt D.]

I'd say it was a successful weekend.

[CarRacer]

You guys are the winners in my book. All of those BMWs are boring and make it too easy to win. It takes far more skill and talent to make something else perform. I was following the updates online and you guys were laying down quick times all day on both days.

Congrats on the awesome finishes.

[Tachyon]

Nice work on the podium finish. Keep up the good work!

[Matt D.]

Originally Posted by CarRacer

You guys are the winners in my book. All of those BMWs are boring and make it too easy to win. It takes far more skill and talent to make something else perform. I was following the updates online and you guys were laying down quick times all day on both days.

Congrats on the awesome finishes.

For sure. Both days we were surrounded by BMWs, 4 E30s and one E36. Team Short Bus and their VW were pretty quick but they had a few problems. I think it says a lot that we are bringing something completely different and we're successful with it. Thanks for the kind words.

Originally Posted by Tachyon

Nice work on the podium finish. Keep up the good work!

Thanks!

[Halon]

Yeah you guys were flying Matt. Great job! Keep in mind my buddies E30 team were all newbs to this, so they weren't going to be much of a threat. They were there for the fun and experience, and I think they had a blast!

[Matt D.]

Yeah, Derrick seemed pretty excited even with all the problems they had. It's definitely a bummer, but they all got seat time so that's what matters the most. It took us a couple events to find all the weak links in our car, so they aren't in the clear yet.

[simulatedwood]

Thanks for all the kind words guys, the MR2 is like bringing a knife to gun fight against the BMW's. We are so happy to get on the poduim, everyone was cheering for us to win on Sunday. We were so close.

I think our weekend could be summed up by the drive home when we were passed on 94 by the chumpcar crew in a rental car and they put up the sign "Got Gas?" in the window for us to see..

Doah!

[Matt D.]

LOL Shawn, that is awesome. I think we've made our mark on Chump Car.

[mlomker]

Originally Posted by simulatedwood

"Got Gas?" in the window for us to see..

bwahaha. Only need gas until the checkered flags.

I'm thinking about spectating at nationals.

[Shane@DBPerformance]

We broke on Saturday, passenger side front wheel hub/axle sheared off. The only thing left holding the wheel on was the brake caliper around the rotor. We quickly found out early on Sat morning that we had no chance of getting a podium finish due to our fuel consumption and small gas tank. If we ran at normal power levels we would have to pit for fuel 2 times more than the teams that would end up winning, which would cost us at least 11 minutes of track time. Two of the guys drove back to the cities to get parts to fix the car and we got it back running.

On Sunday we tried turning the boost down to save gas. I didn't get to drive on Saturday due to the failure, so I went out first in the morning, after maybe 40 minutes the car started overheating. It wouldn't totally go out of control, but it wasn't good, so I babied it until I starting sputtering from lack of fuel and brought it in. We kept going the whole day, if we kept the RPMs under 5500 or just went 50% throttle we could keep the temps from going out of control. With us babying the car and running slower times, we were able to run pit one less time and get it down to only 1 too many pits. We ended up 6th with 199 laps, shake and bake was 3rd with 200 laps, so things are very tight out there. I did a 360 coming into the carousel in the morning on Sunday, lost a little time waiting for a clear spot to get back on the track. A couple laps later another car did the same thing right in front of me in the same spot. Had a couple minor off track excursions, that only cost a couple seconds and passed a car in heavy traffic with all 4 wheels off the track between turns 5 and 6. I drove the last stint on Sunday and mostly just fell in behind other decently fast cars and just followed them to keep the car from overheating and finish the race, by then the tires were getting pretty bad and I would see chunks fly off the front drivers side in turn #2 at around 105 mph.

It's likely that we will dump the turbo setup for the Chumpionship in Iowa, because every time you pit there is 6-10 laps lost. Iowa is wheel bearing/hub killer on Hondas too, we destroyed two of them at the last race and the hub failure we had at BIR also happened to another Honda at Iowa, guess they weren't actually built to do high speed cornering.

[Matt D.]

ChumpCar has a blog going, they post frequent updates there during races.

http://chumpcarworldseries.blogspot.com/

Saturday's Results
1. #38 Chump Races Chump Faces, BMW, 203 laps
2. #70 Speed Doctors, BMW 325, 201
3. #26 Shake N Bake, Toyota MR2, 201
4. #33 Tubby Butterman, BMW 325, 198
5. #66 Holy Rollers, Acura, 194
6. #58 Speedlab, BMW 325, 193
EC #23 Brake Dusters, BMW 540, 179
7. #3, Three Sheets, ford Contour, 178
8. #22, North Loop Motorsports, BMW 325, 178
9. #81 Team Party Cat, Mazda Miata, 175
10. #99 Team Short Bus, VW Golf, 173

Sunday's Results
EC #23 Brake Dusters, BMW 540 - 204 laps
1. #70 Speed Doctors, BMW 325 - 203
2. #58 Speedlab, BMW - 203
3. #26 Shake N Bake, Toyota MR2 - 200
4. #33 Tubby Butterman, BMW 325 - 200
5. #38 Chump Races Chump Faces, BMW 325 - 199
6. #49 Slugworks, Honda Civic - 199
7. #3 Three Sheets, Ford Contour - 189
8. #99 Team Short Bus, VW Golf - 182
EC #37 Acme Racing, Honda Prelude - 179
9. #66 Holy Rollers, Acura - 174
10. #6 Hackcent, Hyundai Accent - 169

Team Shake and Bake





Slugworks

[s1ngletracker]

lol, I love that last one.

It was a blast ripping off 1:58 laps on saturday, too bad I could only do that for about an hour before I needed gas

[Matt D.]

Here's the Flickr photo stream of the guy taking pictures at the races: http://www.flickr.com/photos/winktim...th/5804355015/

[Halon]

Cool video Derek's bro-in-law made for their team.

http://vimeo.com/24948179

http://vimeo.com/24948179

[mlomker]

Never been a fan of music in videos since I love listening to engines but great editing. I stood in all of those filming locations while working on my sunburn.

[Matt D.]

Sweet video. Maybe he should talk to ChumpCar about doing a promo video for them.

[turbotalon1g]

I wish I could do this. You guys make it sound so awesome.