MotorTrend - 2010 One Lap of America: The Rise of the Giant-Killers at Mid-America
"Yet there were four bewildering performances by newbie teams, aka "Lap Pups" as they're affectionately been dubbed. The highlights follow.
1990 BMW 325is
BMW is easily the most represented brand this year. The One Lap crew is using a fleet of 5 and 3 Series graciously provided by the BMW Performance School, and there's a small army of M-badged coupes and roadsters flooding the pits. The fastest one, though, is a 1990 325is. It's sitting comfy at 12th overall right now after two top ten finishes today.
How? It's stupid fast. "It's above 400-horse -- probably 450 to 500 horsepower," says car owner and builder Kevin Kreisa. The engine is a straight-six from an E36 328i with an 82 millimeter Garrett GT35 turbocharger feeding air to Extrudabody individual throttle bodies. All the plumbing, in fact most of the car, is Kreisa's handiwork: He fabricated it all with hand tools in his shop, DTR Performance.
At 2750 pounds in race trim, the Bimmer's exceptionally light too. Driver Anthony Magagnoli, a regular Spec E30 racer, was "well into fifth" at Road America yesterday, putting speed at above 150 mph.
"I was genuinely concerned for my life," he said -- it was his first time there.
Despite using technology two decades old, first-time One Lappers Magagnoli and Kreisa are clobbering genuine giants. Their cumulative lap times for both events today bested those of both a Porsche GT3 RS and a Turbo."
Read more at: http://blogs.motortrend.com/6674511/
MotorTrend - One Lap of America: Edging Towards the Home Stretch
"Kevin Kreisa's BMW 325is continues its shockingly breakneck pace. Driver Anthony Magagnoli knows Mid-Ohio well, placing the 1990 3 Series third in the morning and fourth in the afternoon. The team is sixth in overall points, quite frankly competing in a way that a two-decade old car shouldn't."
Read more: http://blogs.motortrend.com/6646019/
MotorTrend - 2010 One Lap of America: The Crucible of Road America
"In the midst of all the drama, there are some great performances. Leh Keen and his TopSpeed GT2 ultimately claim the day, but the GT-Rs are nibbling close behind. Dan and Kyle Corcoran are hungry too, and Dan puts his Corvette in the top five in both events. A highly modified but nonetheless late-80's BMW 325is managed to fend off a new Porsche 911 Turbo for seventh in both events".
Read more at: http://blogs.motortrend.com/6674409/
MotorTrend - One Lap of America 2010: Local Legends and the Exhibition Class
"Kevin Kreisa and Anthony Magagnoli's E30 325is sneaks up to fourth in the morning session, but gets pushed to fifth in the afternoon by the Corvette Z06 of Jeremy Herzberg, Danny Popp, and Todd Rumpke."
Read more: http://blogs.motortrend.com/6643420/
MotorTrend - One Lap of America 2010: The End
"With a 0.962 g average, Hugh Bate and Rene von Richthofen's stock Porsche 911 Turbo falls to fifth overall. Replacing the Porsche is the turbo E30 325is, which lays down a 0.995 g average."
Read more: http://blogs.motortrend.com/6647090/
AutoBlog - One Lap 2010: The Weekend That Was
"Perhaps more interesting than the top five finishers is the appearance of some unlikely machinery in the top 10, including the #39 BMW 325is of driver Anthony Magagnoli. The 1990 3 Series seems like an unlikely sixth place finisher, even wearing its period M3 bodywork. But thanks to an extensive diet, and a E36-sourced motor with a Garrett turbo strapped on, the elderly BMW has been surprising more powerful and far costlier machinery since One Lap began. Proving its performance was no fluke, Magagnoli would back up his first run with another sixth place finish."
Read more at: http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/04/
Autoblog - 2010 One Lap of America: No. 3 Porsche 911 GT2 outlasts all comers
"The massively tuned No. 39 BMW 325is of Anthony Magagnoli and Kevin Kreisa was impressively consistent, coming through in fourth place..."
Read more at: http://www.autoblog.com/2010/05/10/
AutoGuide - 2010 One Lap of America Complete: Top 10 Finishers an Intriguing Mix of Machines
"Although the Top 3 cars might seem fairly predictable given that they’re three of the highest performance sports cars money can buy, there were also some old school and less obvious choices running near the front.
Claiming the SSGT2 class victory along with 4th place overall was Anthony Maganoli and Kevin Kreisa in their turbocharged 1989 DTR Performance BMW 325i."
Read more at: http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2010/05/
Some pics from MotorTrend, AutoBlog, and BMWBlog:
Some posts about them on internet forums/message boards:
http://roadraceautox.com/showthread.php?p=717765#post717765
http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1450878
http://www.r3vlimited.com/board/showthread.php?t=169865
http://shift518.gom-host.com/showthread.php?p=598870
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/one-lap-mazdaspeed5/21707/page1/#post343607
http://www.e30tech.com/forum/showthread.php?t=92962
http://www.bmwcca.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7306
http://forum.e46fanatics.com/showthread.php?t=761926
http://www.spece30.com/component/option,com_fireboard/Itemid,94/func,view/id,46838/catid,28/
http://www.onelapofamerica.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=809
http://www.corner-carvers.com/forums/showthread.php?p=837182#post837182
http://www.bmwcca.org/forum/showthread.php?p=38973
http://forums.bimmerforums.com/forum/showthread.php?p=19389260
http://forums.mwerks.com/showthread.php?4885906-One-Lap-of-America-winner#post65771696
http://forum.noraracing.net/viewtopic.php?p=35413#p35413
http://www.schautspeedracing.com/blog/ssr-oloa-blog/page/2/
Driving Light Summer 2010- Buckeye BMWCCCA Newsletter (page 6)
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