Season Finale at Buttonwillow

Round 7 and the season finale at Buttonwillow where a Spec E30
Champion would be crowned for the 2011 SoCal season.

Something new to the mix, Spec E30 Series director Shawn Meze led the
way friday after the track closed to do a course walk with a handful
of drives. Very few drivers have actually laid foot to the asphalt and
a better understanding of the track was had by many. I know one driver
would walk the course again on saturday and figure out something in
sundays race to move up in the pack. Could this be the next ritual for
the E30 drivers for the 2012 season? We will see!

Words can not describe so watch for yourself!

A little bit of fun from the the October race weekend. Enjoy!

Spec E30 and Round 6 at Buttonwillow Raceway Park!

The weather in October at Buttonwillow is always difficult to predict. It can either provide the blazing heat of summer, or it can be full-on winter cold. For the Spec E30 races the weather would be nice and cool with sun filled skies and a light breeze all weekend. A new record number of drivers showed up for this event – 14! Yes 14 drivers showed up to battle it out on the track.

Round 5, July 30-31 at Auto Club Speedway

SE30 returned to California Speedway with nine drivers, many of them
had the track record in their sites once again, but the hot weather
would control how fast they could run.

June 25th – 26th @ Buttonwillow

A NASA region with a growing class of Spec E30’s and cloudless 95 degree weather would not be the only story for the weekend at Buttonwillow! There would also be one of tough battles and an ever changing track conditions! 10 competitors would show up to play in the sunshine and, play they did.

Saturday morning warm-up went off without a hitch. 10 cars would take to the track for qualifying. 3 first time racers would join us for a weekend of racing bliss!

May 21st-22nd @ Willow Springs

May at Willow Springs, ah yes, warm weather with a guarantee of wind, “EasyUps” will be sacrificed! The weather absolutely controls every competitor’s ability to go fast at this track. This weekend would prove to be one of the best weather days at a NASA event here at Willow Springs in years, as a result many class lap records would fall, and SE30 was to be no different!

April 9th – 10th @ Buttonwillow Raceway Park

Round 2 of the Spec E30 season brings us to Buttonwillow Raceway Park. The cool weather and bright sunshine were a good combination for sticky tires, making power and maintaining our Tans! The teams arrived at the track and the Midnight Oil Semi took center stage in the E30 village where all the teams all pitted close together. We were to share the race group with the BMW Club and the German Touring Series which meant a lot of very fast German iron on the track!

Season Opening Race at Auto Club Speedway

A new season for Spec E30 in SoCal at AAA Speedway marked a competitive view on whats to be expected for the rest of the season.

Saturdays qualifying brought Allan Hauser to the pole with a very good time of 2:04.954! Only 2 tenths off the lap record set late last season. Winning the pole is not always a guarantee of victory as the race showed that Rius Billing battled hard and was able to take the top spot and in the process, laid down a 2:04.760 which is pretty close to the lap record by a few thousands! Allan Hauser suffered some on track damage and retired to make sure the damage wasn’t more serious, which it wasn’t and he would return Sunday to battle again. Kieran Gobey experienced some new race jitters and missed torquing the lug nuts on his front wheel and had to pit to make repairs. He was able to rejoin the race and finished 3rd in his blue dream machine behind Frank Reed in his red #11.