SAMSSONZ

Lacr Wednesday 05/09, Irwindale 5/10

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Attention MB owners,

1/4 mile drag , once again at LACR 20.00

www.lacr.net, wed night from 5-10p.m. Hopefully not as windy. It would be great to get some more AMG cars together only 45 minutes North Of LA. For those in the OC will be a longer drive but dam it is fun. E63's Where are you guys? E55's.. We will be there with at least two CLS 63's. PM me with interest . Also if anyone has an M5 or M6 we gotta get this done.

On Thursday we have an 1/8 mile track at Irwindale 20.00

Test and Tune racing
Grudge Match racing
Girl Power racing
Burnout Contest

lbE55

Have you been to LACR recently? Last time that I was there (well over a year ago) the track prep sucked.

MB_Forever

If everybody seem to agree that LACR is crapy track, why don't you guys go to a decent track?

lbE55

I don't go to a lot a tracks. What is your suggestion on a "decent" 1/4 mile track in the Los Angeles area that you can get a good number of runs in?

juicee63

Nothing as close as LACR. Plus because the track sucks you get more runs and just imagine, when you do get on a "good track". Best track is in San Francisco! and Sacramento. Most the tracks here are 1/8 mile. Nothing on the weekends! The birth place of drag racing and we have really minimal choices.

juicee63

PLUS everyone is on the same track so it does not diminish the fun. I do tthink the inside lane is better SHHH! The track equalizes the cars and makes it a real drivers challenge to deal with traction! Plus Sam ran a 12.59 which is the fastest CLS time in the USA!!!! Uncorrected it was 12.9 but we get a nice correction factor that equalizes the track to other tracks that have OPTIMAL conditions. If we are running 12.6 here it is likely we would run 12.6 @ Englishtown or MIR or Moroso! So you get a huge data base to compare your time. Tell me another track in the USA you can manage 40 plus runs in 4 hours?

lbE55

Like I said, I have not been to LACR in a while (would usually go for the Wednesday nights "run what ya brung" events) . . . I had heard that it was closing, changing hands, or something . . . thought maybe that the track prep had improved if it was still open.

I've never tried an 1/8 mile. It just doesn't seem right.

juicee63

We got some decent runs. I have never been to a "good" track" Come on out Wednesday man, we will have a blast and they did use VHT and there were efforts to keep the track sticky. Weather was really bad and wind was 60 mph. 1/8 mile is ok, a good place to just get your 60 ft times down and see if you can trap above 85. Good time to practice launch etc.. You will have a good time if you decide to come out. Have you ever lined up against a 63?

lbE55

Sorry, but what is VHT?

60 mph wind? You should have a lot of wind tonight, too.

It is still a bit of a drive for me coming from Long Beach (add to it afternoon traffic in Southern California). I won't be able to make it anyway because I will be traveling to the Midwest.

I have never run against a 63, but would love it. I did run against a M5 in early April (first time that I came across one that wanted to play). We were lined up at a light and we both hit it. Because of our posturing at the light, I had assumed that he had pressed all of his super-duper buttons and levers necessary to be at 100 percent power. We got up to about 60 before he shut down. I jumped out ahead pretty easily, but he hung in there. He turned off quickly, so I didn't get to speak with him.

Anyway, have fun tomorrow, and be safe.

Kid97GTS

Sorry, but if you don't know what VHT is, you probably are not qualified to comment as to whether the "track prep sucked," either. The problem with LACR is the altitude. Other than that, it is somewhere between the old Carlsbad and Pomona tracks in terms of quality.

lbE55

Well bitc* slap me . . . and . . . go fu*k yourself.

I am qualified to opine as to whether a track is sticky on a particular day as opposed to other experiences that I have had.

I had an inclination that VHT is a material used in preparing a track. However, having never prepared a track myself, I was not familiar with the term. I apologize to you, being the brain-trust that you apparently are, for not knowing precisely what VHT is:

"The compound originated as a high temperature coating made for NASA by the Sperex Corporation; VHT is a brand owned by Sperex. It was taken up by drag racers, and Sperex soon began producing formulations specially made for the sport. Sperex was purchased in 1989 by P. J. Harvey (a businessman, not Polly Jean Harvey the singer) and is now part of PJH Brands."

juicee63

Thanks man , I will be at the drags all summer long so hopefully we can meet up at one event or another!

Benzito11

A good track is famoso,.. Its over 100 miles away from LA but you wont be stuck in traffic since youll be on the road at around 6 am and on a dead freeway in general on a saturday as oppose the congested 5 and 14 frwy at rush hour on a wed or fri to get to lacr. So puttin all those together itll probably take you around the same time to get to famoso as it would to lacr. One bad thing is that you wont get as many runs at famoso as you would at lacr, about 5 runs as opposed to about 15

juicee63

I did over 40 runs last wed @ lacr! Im down to go to FAMOSO Lead the WAY Benzito.. Set it up and I will race your p car woooooowooooo all 4475lbs !!!

juicee63

18 Friday Night Test and Tune, gates 6pm, BAKERSFIELD eh? so home by 1am?

MB_Forever

+1 for famoso... I live near there....

Let me know if you guys are coming, I'd like to come and film the event...

By the way, famoso is a VERY busy track, so if you can't make it by 6:00 or 7:00 pm then most likely you won't be able to get more than 1 or 2 runs.

SAMSSONZ

lets organize and rent california speedway, MBs only

Jrocket

We already did that,track prep sucked.

SAMSSONZ

U did that at calif. speedway?
Do u know how much it was?

Jrocket

Yes,Fontana.Around $2500.00 for the day,1 lane open only.

Rudyrono

I know a lot of guys that have trailered cars to Famoso from Las Vegas. They say the track is pretty fast. Is that the case? I know it's got to be faster than Vegas.

We were actually going to have a little get together at our track tonight, however, one of the cars coming down had some technical issues on the way and had to turn back so we called it off. We were going to shoot video. Too bad. I won't mention any names but he really wanted to see what his car would do. We'll probably have to wait till fall now due to temperature. I did a DA calculation for tonight and it was about 5700'

SAMSSONZ

1 lane, thats ghey

Jrocket

Alot of tracks are that way,for test n tune days.

SCM3

There is a big German event at LACR on May 13th Sunday. Its called German Invasion and the track is rented out privately from an Audi shop. Only German cars are allowed.

LACR is one of the worst tracks in the US. Its usually very hot, windy, sandy (dust storms on track), high altitude, no traction etc...

What have you guys ran at LACR?

My Supercharged M3 ran 11.9@123 there on a bad day.

blackbenzz

Are you runnin your M3 on sunday? I wanna see vids!