My wife and I are on for 10:30 Am Saturday morning.
I just wanted to check if any others had signed up.

Minsoo

i'm going to the teen driving on sunday the 23rd.

I'm going Friday the 21st.

Carter

I'm going this sunday at 10:30.

I'm saturday at 1:30pm. No AM for me ;)

Minsoo,

What color is Inka?

Originally posted by rwindleyme02
I'm saturday at 1:30pm. No AM for me ;)


yeah mines 1-5

Is it 1 or 1:30 Jimmy? I wrote down 1:30 when I talked to the lady on the phone.

I think Jimmy's is the Teen driving course.

I am going to the 8:30am session this morning...the 15th.

Originally posted by bcart1991
I think Jimmy's is the Teen driving course.


yup. pretty sure mine is at 1. i got a card in the mail though, a confirmation card that says what time its at so i'll check later.

Hey Alfa,

In the 70's funky name and color palette years,
Inka = Darker Orange. IMHO, my 2002tii looks perfect in this color.

Originally posted by punknamedjimmy
yup. pretty sure mine is at 1. i got a card in the mail though, a confirmation card that says what time its at so i'll check later.


i checked and mine is at 1

Ok, I went to this Precision Driving Experience thing at 1:30pm today and man, I had a blast! We drove 330i Sports and after driving this thing, I have officially decided that my next car will be an M3. It was amazing how much lighter the 3 felt compared to my 5 (duh!). I felt like I could do anything in that car. We had 4 instructors and the one that instructed me used to drive F1 race cars.

Anyway, we had a race at the end and I GOT THE FASTEST LAP TIME of the class. I even beat one of the instructors! They gave me this little cone with a Roundel on it that says, "Best Performance" for a trophy. Someone asked if I had done this before (there were people there that had done it before) and I just said, "Well, it's a lot easier throwing a car like that around out there than my 540."

Anyway, I am now hooked on Autocross. I must sell my car and get an M3, then I will start autocrossing and taking more driving classes.

If you haven't done one of these, I highly recommend it!

i'm hoping we will do the same things in the teen driving school.

how much was it for that class ryan? oh yeah, Conan rules.

Originally posted by Ali
how much was it for that class ryan? oh yeah, Conan rules.


mines free, i think his was too.

i went today and did the 330i at 11:00am. My time was in the top 5 (around 22.5 seconds), as was Minsoo's. It was a great time for free.

Any one of u dudes that doesnt try to go to one of these sessions is just crazy. FREE AUTOCROSS? can you beat that?

oh and we drove the 745 for the breast cancer charity thing, and i felt the fear of being carjacked on the route they had us going around on near turner field. sheesh Atlanta. clean that area up!

Yeah mine was free. I couldn't test drive cause random people were walking up for test drives. They said they could let me drive a sports wagon. No thanks.

Can't beat free autocross!

Oh yeah, Mark all the courses were different. My time was 24.10 on my course. The best instructor was 23.4.

Hey Mark,

Great job on our times. Our team would have won (thanks in part to our solid performances) if one of our instructors didn't gather us a 5 second penalty for not stopping in the box. As it was, the overall time were still close even with that massive penalty.

Yeah, I was disappointed in my performance overall though. I should have been able to dip into the 21 second zone and beat the other team's fastest time, but when I got strapped in, the seat was so far away from the steering wheel that I felt like I was driving from the rear seat. A better way would be to let each drivier get adjusted in, do their run and then add up the total team times. This eliminates the "LeMans" style tag offs but, i think it would be better overall.

Minsoo

Originally posted by MGRMLN
Hey Mark,

Great job on our times. Our team would have won (thanks in part to our solid performances) if one of our instructors didn't gather us a 5 second penalty for not stopping in the box. As it was, the overall time were still close even with that massive penalty.

Yeah, I was disappointed in my performance overall though. I should have been able to dip into the 21 second zone and beat the other team's fastest time, but when I got strapped in, the seat was so far away from the steering wheel that I felt like I was driving from the rear seat. A better way would be to let each drivier get adjusted in, do their run and then add up the total team times. This eliminates the "LeMans" style tag offs but, i think it would be better overall.

Minsoo

they should let us short people go first lol

We actually did line up, tallest to shortest. And theoretically, each of us would scoot the seat up a little as each driver got in. The reality of it was, jump in, click belt, floor gas and go.

i'd be the person that jumps in and couldn't get the seat belt on lol

i'm guessing its too late to sign up? when is the next one?

Originally posted by Ali
i'm guessing its too late to sign up? when is the next one?


probably but why not give them a call?

We went shortest to tallest. I think it helped. I had trouble with the seat belt when I got in cause the instructor fucked it up and it locked.

Anyway, it was a blast. They have one next weekend I think. You could try and sign up. I signed up in october.

how doyou lock a seat belt?

Bump for Friday afternoon!

Carter

Originally posted by punknamedjimmy
how doyou lock a seat belt?

You know, like what's supposed to happen when you slam on the brakes really fast or hit something... the thing a seat belt is supposed to do... it locks to keep you restrained.

If you pull it too fast while putting your seat belt on it will do the same thing and lock. That's what happened, the instructor didn't give me enough slack and it locked.

The Time That Ryan Decided an M3 Was The Car For Him

That's how I'll remember this event, anyways...

Yes... Yes... A glorious moment. ;)

Originally posted by rwindleyme02
You know, like what's supposed to happen when you slam on the brakes really fast or hit something... the thing a seat belt is supposed to do... it locks to keep you restrained.

If you pull it too fast while putting your seat belt on it will do the same thing and lock. That's what happened, the instructor didn't give me enough slack and it locked.


well i knew what you meant in the locking in braking sense but i don't think i've ever done that while putting on a seat belt.


crazy.

Jimmy, you haven't lived until you've pulled a little too hard on the seat belt...

Carter

Originally posted by punknamedjimmy
well i knew what you meant in the locking in braking sense but i don't think i've ever done that while putting on a seat belt.


crazy.

Well it was a timed tag-team type of thing so everyone was trying to switch drivers as fast as possible. They moved the seat for you, put the car in gear and handed you the seat belt with some slack in it so that you could jerk it and save time. Then they closed the door so all you had to do was hit the gas.

Pretty fun.

That sounds kinda silly if you ask me.

:crazya:

wait. wasn't the car an automatic?



how'd they put it in gear for you and not have the car rolling forward?!?!?!

The cars were autos?

Now I KNOW it was silly.

Originally posted by Ron17
The cars were autos?

Now I KNOW it was silly.


even if they were manuals, i'm still not picturing this. does the guy hop in the car, make all these changes and then hop back out when you get there?

They were autos. Here's how it went:

Team Driver #1 starts off with the car in a square on the track. Instructor in Passenger seat. Driver #1 takes off and does 2 laps. Stops car in square, When stopped, instructor slams tranny into park and hits the seat belt release. Driver #1 gets out and runs to Driver #2, tags him and Driver #2 heads for car. As driver #1 and Driver #2 are running, another instructor outside the car adjusts seat and get seat belt ready for driver #2 . Drive #2 reaches car, jumps in, buckles seat belt. Instructor outside car slams door. Instructor in car puts car in drive and Driver #2 hits gas.

Honestly, the automatic wasn't too bad b/c the course was small enough to where you could have done the whole thing in first. One of the guys tried to be hot and use the steptronic transmission to change gears but he ended up with a very shittly time.

Anyway, it was fun enough for free. Silly, but fun.

Would they throw you out if you did the following:
1. Put car in Neutral
2. Rev and bounce off limiter
3. Drop into "D"
4. Lightly hold brake as instructors gasp in horror
5. Jump out the car and roll and say the car was going to blow up
6. Get on your cell phone and threaten to call your lawyer

OR

1. Look intoxicated with bottle of whiskey in your hand
2. Hand whiskey bottle to previous driver
3. Proceed to run the course in Reverse while putting your burned cd of hilarious chase musc in the cd player and cranking it to full blast
4. Proceed to roll out the car

or what if you purposely make the car spin and see how many cones you can take out

and then get out and say "I was supposed to go around the cones?!?!"

I'd say the first two scenarios wouldn't be tolerated. As for the spinning out and going off the track, I don't think they had a problem with that. One of the guys there went WAAAY off the track and took out like 6 cones.

As for tearing up the tranny, While I was there, two car's trannies broke and wouldn't shift out of 1st. Another X5 on a test drive went up an embankment and broke an axle. Fun stuff.

i what kinda tires the cars have.

Didn't catch what tires. They were sport versions so maybe Geordie can shed some light on what tires come stock on the 330i sport package.

Originally posted by punknamedjimmy
i what kinda tires the cars have.

:95

Speak English.

Great, now I have 2 things to look forward to this week.

I have an interview Thursday morning - wish me luck! Hopefully this will get me out of public service...

Friday afternoon should be a good release from all the tension I'm building today and tomorrow.

I want to say the 330i sport comes with Michelins stock. My mom just got one (5-speed of course), but I could be mistaken.

Carter

I am going on the 23rd in a Z4. 330s are too boring:). It looks that this thing is better than expected. I can't wait now :)

Florian

I drove the Z4 at Homecoming. Fun, but believe it or not, I found the 330i's with Sport Package to be more fun to drive on the autocross.

The Z4's tend to understeer far too much for my taste.

And of course, nothing is as involving as the M Coupe.

Originally posted by Ron17
:95

Speak English.


woops i changed what i was saying midsentence and i forgot that to fix it.

Who do you think you are, ee cummings?

frankly, i have no idea who that is.

Originally posted by punknamedjimmy
frankly, i have no idea who that is.

So... we can file him and capitalization under:

Things and People Jimmy Does Not Know

Y'all are ALMOST as bored as I am. I'm too bored to even post. Wait a minute...

Oh, well.

Carter

Originally posted by Ron17
So... we can file him and capitalization under:

Things and People Jimmy Does Not Know


that must be a huge list.

Originally posted by MGRMLN
I drove the Z4 at Homecoming. Fun, but believe it or not, I found the 330i's with Sport Package to be more fun to drive on the autocross.

The Z4's tend to understeer far too much for my taste.

And of course, nothing is as involving as the M Coupe.

That is interesting since my observations are quite the opposite. I drove 330s and Z4s at Spartanburg and the Z4 was by far the more nimble and involved drive of the two. Hell, it even felt more fun to drive than the SMG M3 which felt pretty heavy and was understeering pretty heavily. Not to mention that it filters way too much from what the car is doing.

Florian

The 330i's have less tire and because of this, feel a bit more willing to rotate. Useful during the tight bits on an autox course. More adjustable.

The Z4 is an involving drive for sure, but the larger 18" wheels of the 3.0i sport model make the car feel a bit too over-tired for it's power to me.

uhhh.


jeep > z4?

Originally posted by MGRMLN
The 330i's have less tire and because of this, feel a bit more willing to rotate. Useful during the tight bits on an autox course. More adjustable.

The Z4 is an involving drive for sure, but the larger 18" wheels of the 3.0i sport model make the car feel a bit too over-tired for it's power to me.

As I mentioned above. I think I finally disagree with you about something regarding cars :). Z4s are way lighter and smaller than 330s and for me they are the more fun car to drive. An S54 in that car would make a hell of a drive. But I respect other people opinions :)

Florian

i am forfeiting my spot for this for this sunday, the 23rd. if any of you wants a spot with a z4, mine will be available later today. tried to trade my day with someone, but no one responded. i'm still up for trading for a thursday or friday time this week if anyone wants sunday, instead. i'm signed up for the panoz track school at road atlanta this weekend, so i can't go.

Sorry Adam.

Maybe I'll head up to RA and watch you this weekend?

Florian,
Well we agree to disagree, finally.
I can respect that.

we need to find some good locations and do photoshoots



like with the 3 m coupes. yuuum.

I like the m5.

I can't wait to see the new V10 M5.
That ought to be awesome!

interesting to say the least.



kinda wierd looking to say a bit more.

Originally posted by MGRMLN
I can't wait to see the new V10 M5.
That ought to be awesome!

man i'd be happy with a 2000 M5, i'm saving up!

Originally posted by Ali
man i'd be happy with a 2000 M5, i'm saving up!


I'D be happy with 95 m3.



i'm saving up.

set your expectations high and you'll achieve them.

There were showroom cars at this thing too.

A new 330i, a Z4, an e39 M5 an e60 545i sport and an X5 (whatever the small engine is).

I sat in the M5 and was happy with the world. If only the battery wasn't dead and I had the key...

Sat in the new 545 too. It was VERY cushy. Nice interior.

Note to self: take extra battery and hotwire tools to driving school tomorrow.

Look for me in the arrests section of Friday's AJC.

Bump for tomorrow afternoon.

Carter

I think newspapers only publish sex offenders, don't they?

Just WHAT are you planning on doing, Carter? :confused:

Originally posted by bcart1991
Note to self: take extra battery and hotwire tools to driving school tomorrow.

Look for me in the arrests section of Friday's AJC.

Bump for tomorrow afternoon.

Carter

They had the new 545 inside so you'd have to drive through the little building they have set up. Do-able I think.

Drive it like you stole it!

if i stole a car, i'd drive as law abiding as possible




thats intill the popo were after me.

5 hours till go-time, feeling pretty confident after my interview yesterday *still hoping & praying*, having lunch with the wife before I head downtown...

Gonna be a good afternoon, if I can just make it through this boring morning.

Ron, it's an M5, it's less than 5 years old, and simply starting that car could be described as a sexual experience. I am in trouble...

"Atlanta police baffled as driving school attendee steals sports car and vanishes... POS Crown Victorias can't seem to keep up."

"This just in... Atlanta Police Officers are telling me that the suspect is even outrunning their radios! They just can't seem to get ahead of this guy!"

Wow, it's not even 9am and I'm bored senseless.

Bump for this afternoon.

Carter

In a related story, Police are puzzling over a jar of vaseline and a soiled towel that was found in the vacinity of where the vehicle was taken...

No chance. I leave NO evidence at my crime scenes - I know better, I watch CSI, but not the gay Miami one.

Especially since I'm in their system now...

Uggghhhhh...

Yeah, I'm in the system as well.

:mad111:

Well, I'll admit mine was legitimate. You, good sir, got screwed.

"he seems to be going faster than sound itself."