Think you’re hardcore? Less than 24 hours after registering it, Mister Fister’s “new” E46-chassis BMW M3 was already wearing numbers. And that was just the beginning.
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My buddy bought his E46 M3 on the way to Barber Motorsports Park. It must be an M3 thing...which is to say AWESOME.
I think Andy Hollis has to get some sort of award here for running the One Lap in a new GTR he'd owned for less than a week. His ratio of total mileage to race mileage is excellent.
For me, it was about a week. And it wasn't a car purchased to be a race car.
I autocrossed my 2002 two weeks after purchase back in 1970. My competition was the salesman who sold me the car, in another 2002. He paid for may entry fee. I beat him, had to pay my own entry fees after that . . .
Corvette was the following weekend, still not registered. Changed the engine oil, went auto-x'ing.
Bought Wednesday, stickered and at autocross Saturday.
On the way home from the dealership. Hour one.
I took the Corvette out to Blackhawk four days after I bought it. I was the only one out there with a temp tag...
Sunday purchase, 900 mile tow, one day parking lot build to racing Friday in the $2014 Fiero fiasco.
Other than that purchased my first miata on a Wednesday put new wheels and tires on it before Saturdays autocross event.
Bought Saturday morning, raced Saturday night. Four blown shocks meant I was a laughing stock. Did some suspension work that week, took it back out the following weekend and I airmailed a rod which resulted in taking out 15 cars on my oil slick. Racing delayed 90 minutes. Not a popular guy.
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