Doing the Dubai 24hr in a 120D

[e21Jason]

Just spent an amazing 40 hours doing the Dubai 24 with a local team SVDP racing which is entirely made up of amateur spanner men and club drivers, and we were the only amateur team on the grid and beat 4 professional teams to take the class win in with the BMW 120d, and we even got a mention on pistonheads.
http://www.pistonheads.com/news/default ... ryId=26944
Practice was limited to a few laps to find the turbo went so replaced that, then a few laps till the engine failed. Which resulted in a 1:45 drive in drive out engine swap which was enough to get the drivers the minimum 2 timed laps each. We on the last row (77th) and after remapping the engine for reliability with cardboard and gaffer tape, dealing with the up’s and down of endurance racing we finished 37th and chased down, passed, got passed, passed again a car which was 10 secs a lap quicker to get the lead.
So here are a few pics
Engine swap

What the pit looks like at midnight before the race





Car prep done 2:00 the morning before the race

Pitstop during the day

Night Stop

Wining


The team after the race


And a video of the first lap
http://s225.beta.photobucket.com/user/e ... 0.mp4.html

A few more High res pics
http://www.slrpm.com/galleries/SVDP%202 ... index.html
And more pictures from the event http://www.crankandpiston.com/articles/on-the-track/

[Francisco]

Brilliant!!! Thank you for sharing.

[bss325i]

Epic!

This kind of thing is what I dream of doing if I had a major win on the lottery!

What let go on the engine?

[Cook318IS]

Awesome! I was watching some of it on the livestream. If you ever want a team photographer...

[e21Jason]

Yes i great todo and show's you don't need a massive budget.

Engine issue was No.3 piston ring the third one, we reckon it the map which was done in holland (they had a 120d bmw backed single make race series) as a copy of the race series map, thats why we put a cardboard block under the throttle to limit the power therefore boost.

[maxfield]

Thanks for sharing, sounds like you enjoyed yourself.

One of our customers has bought a Z3M britcar and has discussed doing the Dubai 24hr but that's as far as its got so far

[Demlotcrew]

Very very very cool! I had a few friends over there too, one day I'll make it to any 24hr race!

Go on the Scotch

[e21Jason]

the Z3m here blew the engine so I wonderded up and made the dutch team a cheeky offer at 4 in the morning for the car less the engine and box, yet to hear back.

If they want to do the dubai get them to do Barca first in sept run by the same people and most of the same teams, and if he can sort some sponsorship we could help with running the car in dubai.

The team did britcar 2 years ago but can be bolthered with the rain any more to do it again

[daimlerman]

Well done!

[rix313]

Nice one dude!! Good effort! 24's are amazing to do. Was gutted not to be there this year but new team has plans to do it in 2014