Brands Hatch Indy lap times!
 

What lap times does a CSL do at Brands Hatch Indy.

Just wanted to compare against the race cars this weekend.

Daz and Curlys best in Standard Class CSL CUP were 54+ secs so Id guess around 52 secs for a CSL would be about right:bigcry:

sorry i meant 57+ secs :hahaha:

you should be in 55 shim on cups its a short lap

Both of our cars were actually M3's as well that season, with just slicks and a bit of weight shaved off .. so agree with Curly around 55/56

Clives E30M3 at Snett was about 1m 26+ so say 6 secs slower than the CSL. (but Snett is a pooooower circuit to a degree) and at BRands Clive was running 57sec+ so i guess 55-56 is gota be about right although the E30 handles well on the shorter slower circuit

When we were there back in the summer I think I timed Matt at around 58/59secs on his Dunlops and KK was a few seconds quicker on his Cups.

I was slow as fook as had never done the circuit and couldn't get the line right! :bigcry::hahaha:

Don't forget KKs fancy after market suspension :thumbs: and my well used O.E. stuff :bigcry: which as good as it is @ the Ring :thumbs: doesn't suit Brand's "short & twisty" circuit that much :bigcry:

Gent's e46 was in the 48s earlier this year :D

I think it was Alex's boots that did the trick! :hahaha: ;)

Impressive :thumbs: but I bet it wasn't very standard :whistle:

:thumbs: very helpful Nath :hahaha:

What :whistle: these ?

That's the ones! :smokin:

Had a K&N and a Peco big bore exhaust :thumbs:

Yeah Right ?!?! :hahaha: Was that on the E46 318i TD Beast ? :whistle:

Why shim you doing the msv race thingy next year?you would walk it in the csl,yer gona have to at some balast;)or you could get thorney to detune it:whistle:

Nah, dont think the CSL is the right car - too quick and not really in the spirit - after seeing Clive in the MAzda, low cost has got to be the way forward as long as you have a few mates doing it and some other cars to race!

Anyway - i could always get Thorney to detune the MX5 and add a few Halfords spoilers :whistle:

Yep Special lightweight ones with built in rocket booosters!!! ;)

What size & compound are those Alex? :clown: :hahaha:

Size 8 and medium compound aren't they Alex ??? ;) :hahaha:

Soft compound but with steel toe caps! :hahaha:

There's always ONE isnt there !! ;) ... quick lap mate ! ... was it yours though ... not clear in original post !:hahaha:

The CSL isnt in their list of approved cars ...currently anyway !

dunc just take off the csl badge and get yer name down:thumbs:

Nothing to do with me buddy, it belonged to Keith Gent, hence "Gent's" ;)

:thumbs:

Ya fookin muppet !!! .. I thought YOU were addressing us as gents ! :banghead:

You wolly! :hahaha: :hahaha: :bigcry:

wELL I DONT FOOKIN KNOW WHO THE HELL kEITH gENT IS DO I !!! :hahaha:

No, but you know you ain't a gent :whistle:

Thats it then !! signature mod required methinks !! :hahaha:

No but as above! :bigcry: ;)

Shimmy,

Going back to your original question....

My last track day this year was at Brands Indy.

According to my Racechrono software, in my fully spec'd heavy M3, with Kuhmo V70a's, HSD coilovers, and AP front brakes my best time was 57.01 seconds.

I'm still a bit of a novice, so I would have thought a decent driver in a CSL could knock a couple of seconds off that?

Cheers Paul, sounds like a v good time!

It was quite a good day as many went home early, leaving the track quite empty.

Being able to do a few clear laps in a row seemed to make quite a difference in improving.

This is one of my better laps from the day, (although not the best) and you can see how empty the track is.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTTLlsM2o8M

Hi,

Andy Prialux was testing on the Brands Indy
circuit in Oct 2008 with the 2007 spec car.

It was in a 2007 WTC spec car, but not the
car he actually races.

Was not cold but not warm that day,
Track was very dry and was quite well 'rubbered',
they were doing some testing on tyres with revised
Suspension settings etc.

His best lap that afternoon was 52 secs +/-,
they said that in full race spec etc then they
would expect about another sec or so off.

What was interesting was they did 2 full on laps
with wets, in the Dry.

Something about how rapid progressive tyre degredation
impacts on suspension and handling.

There was also Z4 M in ETCC spec, but I never saw that do
any laps that afternoon.

Don't know if that tells you much.

Regards,

The Gorilla.

I was doing about 1min 2/3 which I didn't think was too sad for my first track day on a cold Feb day, with cups.

Kev Clarke's car dips into the 48s on new rubber, too.

Anyhting sub 50 secs is good for a E46 racer. Anything above starts becoming fodder for the E36 GusBus! (best lap 51.1, but will be nearly 1 second better on new rubber)

I think mine and Chalkie's road CSLs used to be in the 54s on cups, but that was a while back so my memory may be wrong!

:D

Once upon a time, in a galaxy far, far away this happened :hahaha:

http://i260.photobucket.com/albums/i...brands-201.jpg

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amazing how still pictures manage to hide the swerving.