Road racing debut at Motor Sport Ranch in Ft. Worth

Our Lemon Bimmer Project, conceived as an experiment in racing on a budget, built up from a parts car, had its track debut this weekend in Ft. Worth, TX. The 1.7 mile short course there is an exciting racing venue, and almost 20 BMW Club Racers gathered for the first club race in the region. Early and late M3 cars in various states of modification made up the bulk of the field with experienced drivers and these guys are fast. Way faster than any unmodified e30 can ever be.

But still it's alot of fun to be out there racing. Ahmad Lutfeali flew in from Atlanta to drive the car, since he'll be one of the drivers this summer in the 24 Hours of Lemons race in California. George Adkins drove the car up to Ft. Worth, using less than a half a tank of gas, then Ahmad drove the car for practice, qualifying, and racing on Saturday - using only a 1/4 tank more. THIS is budget racing - the car didn't need any work throughout the whole weekend, and barely used any gas. And finished first in class! Wow!

Click Here to read a letter about Lemon Bimmer from
Dr. J. Lynn Cochran

Here's a Pirate Update from Ahmad, driver of Lemon Bimmer:

"This past weekend at MSR was surely a blast. Thanks to Bob M for hosting a
great event. The track is quite technical and the Texan JP boys love door to
door racing ;)

Terry Sayther provided me an opportunity to arrive and drive in the E30 325i
which he has built for the 24 Hours of Lemons race.

Well, racing does not have to be expensive (to have fun ;) Boy, that
thing is a hoot to drive (heck we even broke the KP track record in a $500
car). Terry and his team has been working diligently and were ready for this,
this car was driven to and from the track, not to mention Terry did some 16
odd hours of racing in Mexico.

I wanted to thank the Lone Star Chapter for a wonderful weekend; for those
of you who have not been to MSR, its worth the haul (IMHO)".

-Ahmad