Photos and Video of Alpine White 1 Serie M Coupé on Track on Spa

[edwardio]

Originally Posted by hwelvaar

These corners are called "Eau Rouge" and "Raidillon". After a long straight down, it's a short left followed by a long, right upward corner (which we see both in the vid), and then blind into the next left corner.

After some practice, I dared to enter this corner at 160 KM/h (100 M/h) with my stock 335i.
I noticed they guy in the M3 video does it at 180 KM/h. Now watch how slow those GTs are compared to F1.

Mind-bending !!

where are the F1 cars ??

[hwelvaar]

Originally Posted by CDR_UK

my best time in my 135i was 2.58s, and I'm not a professional pilot...

Damn, you're going insanely fast with that thing. Is your 135i stock ?
What hardware and software do you need to make the track overlay and track time, like in your vid ? Haven't seen that before, but it's really cool. Me want

[hwelvaar]

Originally Posted by edwardio

where are the F1 cars ??

??? Here :

Originally Posted by MrRoboto

While on the Spa topic...speed comparison GT vs F1

[hwelvaar]

Found this on Dutch website:













All pics here:

http://www.driving-fun.com/1821/home...-Spa-2011.aspx

[superchargedman]

Thanks!

[edwardio]

Originally Posted by hwelvaar

??? Here :

it was meant to be a joke..du-dum

[BenTrovato]

Great thread... these pics are awesome! Anything at Spa is awesome really. Cool video with the F1 GT comparison.

[BAMxi]

iPhone app doesn't allow for the use of the ampersand. He's trying to say " k and n"

[tunedone]

Love the photos, getting mine same color in June

[Diver]

Nice!

[bvez3ro]

Nice find.
I really love AW on the 1M. Fantastic colour.

Is there any chance to get the pictures in a higher resolution for a wallpaper?

[steve79]

So nice! Maybe i will switch from VO to AW!! I love Spa, i was there with my 135i, on Public days, so nice to drive! I don't know my lap-times, but i made eau Rouge also with 160 km/h, such a nice feeling!

[Grey Dove]

@ steve79,

Steve, if you go there on monday, don't forget to take pics please.

Thnks

[devo]

Thanks!

I'd be pissing my pants afraid I'd whack the 458 into something!

[Grey Dove]

Originally Posted by CDR_UK

my best time in my 135i was 2.58s, and I'm not a professional pilot... The best I have on video is here:

I would hope to do better in my 1M next year.

How would you discribe yourself then?

a) a very devoted amateur

b) a natural gifted amateur

c) owner of a dorned good car

d) or a mix of all things

e) ................... (fill in as you like!)

Cool vid, mate

[vladberca]

^ Also, that 135i is a stock car?

[CDR_UK]

Originally Posted by hwelvaar

Damn, you're going insanely fast with that thing. Is your 135i stock ?
What hardware and software do you need to make the track overlay and track time, like in your vid ? Haven't seen that before, but it's really cool. Me want

135i was not stock in that video. 225 section Toyo R888's all around, JB3 map 3, KW clubsport coilovers, and stock brake disks with RBF 660 fluid and Carbonetic C-spec brake pads.

Still, this is directly comparable with the M3 video, which also has R888's in a wider section, stoptech brakes, a chip-tune, exhaust, etc. Honestly I think the M3 with those mods can run Spa 10s faster than what that "Professional" guy did.

I also had a failing HPFP which terminally failed in the session after the one in the video. I had to drive 700KM home at 90-100KM/h - not fun! This video is from the day before at the Nurburgring, where you can see that HPFP started failing (around 7m50s) and stopped my fun:

To capture the data I was using RaceChrono on a nokia phone, with a 5Hz Qstarz BT-Q818X Bluetooth GPS Receiver. I then used RaceChrono2AVI to make the telemetry videos, and then inserted them as PiP using a video editing software.

Originally Posted by gs/e60/1m?

How would you discribe yourself then?

a) a very devoted amateur

b) a natural gifted amateur

c) owner of a dorned good car

d) or a mix of all things

e) ................... (fill in as you like!)

Cool vid, mate

e) a guy having fun on track once or twice a year

Originally Posted by vladberca

^ Also, that 135i is a stock car?

As above, the car was not stock, the year before I had stock motor with bilstein PSS10 - the car understeered so much! Anyway, I also ran 3m4s (same as the M3) with that setup, including a passenger and full tank of fuel:

I hope in the 1M with R888 or PSC, and better compound brake pads that I could run at 2m55s.

[Clap135]

Man you have some serious rubbing issues. Becarful before you snag a fender the wrong way and end up in the wall

[m3bs]

I happened to be at Spa last week (just watching, unfortunately), and snapped a couple of pics. Lots of other impressive machinery there as well.

[natelam]

sick pics