Anybody heard if there is going to be a BMW car corral at Road Atlanta for the Petit Lemans Sept 29 - Oct 2?
Not that far away.
Gotta support the GT M3's.
PT officers can chime in here any time...............
Gary Beck
88 M5 Black/Black- 1 of 30 imported
Peoples Choice- Best 5er at The Vintage 2011
Engine rebuilt by owner 9/08
CP Pistons, B36 Cams, Miller MAF w/War Chip
Euro Headers,
Dyno@294 RWHP 345 HP at crank. 302 Torque.
Newest project- 1972 3.0CS
Yes, indeed! It's been in work for a couple of months now, so expect news soon!
-Shawn
Peachtree Chapter BMW CCA Secretary
the last one at the walter mitty race was a great success!
i will def see you guys there!
85 635CSI Euro
89 325IS
98 M3 (sold)
87 535is (sold)
01 m coupe (sold)
Well, I spoke too soon. Unfortunately, we are getting no buy-in from other chapters and the numbers just do not make sense. It was going to be upwards of 5k out of the Chapter's funds, and that's after charging the attendees for the parking and hospitality portions. So, there will not be a Peachtree Chapter corral this year.
I'll be there almost the whole time shooting. Should be interesting.
Ill be there, cant wait.
wtfomgbbq?!?! The one year I join bmwcca and plan on going to Petit, and the corral gets cancelled. Bummer.
I understand though. Everything land/sponsor/event related at Petit is retarded expensive. I think it was like $1500 for a little 10x10 square for the SPSU FSAE team 2 years ago. I can't imagine what a whole parking area costs now.
I used to have a picture of an E30 here.E46 M3 Vert <> E36 M3 Crew Cab Track Car <> E70 35D <> Jason's YouTube
Yeah, we're sorry about the lack of a car corral, but the catering requirement made it impossible (unless we charge our members some ungodly amount to park in the corral and eat). We agonized over this decision for a long, long time.
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My group just parks our cars next to each other on turn 2/3. Seems to get the job done.
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Shawn,
Have you checked with BMWCCA about some support from them?
They usually will kick in and especially since the BMW's are running at
Petit and are in the race for the series.
United and others have kicked in also.
It would be pretty embarrassing not to have a coral for all the fans that will come from all over the US just to see how BMW does.
Not sure who arranged the coral last year but you might want to check with
Patty too.
Of course last year O Fest was here and that made it a done deal.
Gary Beck
88 M5 Black/Black- 1 of 30 imported
Peoples Choice- Best 5er at The Vintage 2011
Engine rebuilt by owner 9/08
CP Pistons, B36 Cams, Miller MAF w/War Chip
Euro Headers,
Dyno@294 RWHP 345 HP at crank. 302 Torque.
Newest project- 1972 3.0CS
Gary,
All of that has been considered and taken into account.
-Shawn
Last edited by Shawn D; 08-17-2010 at 09:24 PM.
Well thats to bad.
Seems like BMW could afford to support their race team in different parts of the US.
This just came from the BMWCCA web site and was posted yesterday. 8/17
Billions in 2010, up from mere millions in 2009
BMW's second-quarter results have produced a stunning net profit, some seven times stronger than anticipated. If the income and profit numbers were written as strings of zeros, this story would look like computer code.
BMW spokesmen said that net profit climbed to €834,000,000 ($1,100,000,000) from €121,000,000 in the same period a year earlier. Dow Jones analysts had projected a slightly more modest figure of €674,000,000. The fall of the euro has raised the value of dollar-denomination sales.
"The evident market recovery since the beginning of the year continued to gain pace during the second quarter 2010," said BMW, with practically British understatement.
The group delivered 380,412 BMW, Mini, and Rolls-Royce vehicles in the second quarter, a gain of 12.5%, and posted an 18.3% jump in sales to €15,348,000,000. Operating earnings before interest and tax soared to €1,717,000,000 from just €169,000,000 in an extremely weak second quarter in 2009. For the first six months of 2010, BMW swung from a loss of €31,000,000 in the first half of 2009 to a profit of €1,158,000,000.
Luxury-car makers have seen a complete turnaround this year, with emerging countries like China setting records. Looking ahead to the rest of 2010, BMW anticipates a unit-sales gain of around 10% to more than 1,400,000 vehicles and profit margins on core operations expected to be more than 5% for the automobiles segment. That is expected to climb to 8%-10% by 2012.
BMW motorcycles also did well, despite unfavorable market conditions, with a 21.6% rise in sales to 36,175 units, while the financial services division sold 3% more contracts.—Paul Duchene
Gary Beck
88 M5 Black/Black- 1 of 30 imported
Peoples Choice- Best 5er at The Vintage 2011
Engine rebuilt by owner 9/08
CP Pistons, B36 Cams, Miller MAF w/War Chip
Euro Headers,
Dyno@294 RWHP 345 HP at crank. 302 Torque.
Newest project- 1972 3.0CS
I used to have a picture of an E30 here.E46 M3 Vert <> E36 M3 Crew Cab Track Car <> E70 35D <> Jason's YouTube
"My philosophy, in essence, is the concept of man as a heroic being, with his own happiness as the moral purpose of his life, with productive achievement as his noblest activity, and reason as his only absolute." - Ayn Rand
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