Announcing new Autocross Classes
The Autocross committe has spend long hours and many emails to come up with
updated classes for our events. The changes take effect after the June 27th Runoff.
Explaination of the process and the new classes are
now available here
News Coverage of Street Survival
KUSI covered the Tire Rack Teen Street Survival school that the
BMW Club put on with the help of lots of volunteers. 36 teen drivers had a
chance to learn how to control their cars at and beyond the limit in a
safe environment. See the video here
Rug Cunningham Runoff Results
The complete results for the Rug Cunningham Memorial Runoff Saturday qualifier are
here.
The class winners from Saturday that qualified for Sunday's runoff were:
| J. Farina | 4 cylinder Modified |
| Rick Jung | 6/8/12 cylinder Stock |
| Mike Andre | 6/8/12 cylinder Modified |
| Pete Engels | M Stock |
| Damon Martin | M Modified |
| Joe Hebel | Mini Cooper |
| Mike Van Aken | Non BMW |
Congratulations to Sunday's run-off winner, Pete Engels, besting the field by 1.8 seconds in the 325 station wagon.
San Diego BMW CCA Twitter feed
The chapter now has a Twitter feed for updates, announcements and info that
fits in 140 characters. If you would like to find out what
what Twitter is all about you can get a tutorial here.
Thanks from Military Outreach Ministry During the Autocoss and Street Survival events the chapter collected three large boxes of food and $107 of cash donations from the Military Outreach Ministry which supports the young familys of our Marines. See the thank-you note for more information about this very worthy charity
Street Survival Coverage
A number of volunteers from the club supported a very successful Tire Rack Street Survival event on
April 5. See the News 8 coverage here
2008 Bill Brecht Service Award
Congratulations to Gordon Anderson, our 2008 Bill Brecht service award winner
San Diego BMW CCA Facebook Group
The San Diego chapter now has a Facebook group. If you haven't joined Facebook, you can find out
what it is about at www.facebook.com. If you already have an
account, the group is
San Diego BMW CCA
Patch-a-palooza 2009
On Saturday January 10th a number of 25 avid autocrossers and friends donned their work clothes and
headed down to Qualcomm stadium. The group spend the day patching the West Lot to make it better for our
Autocrosses. We joined the Porsche Club and SCCA for a day of fun with concrete. We poured 81 60 lb bags of
concrete, which is the gross weight of a 760Li. We stayed longer than the other clubs and filled the biggest
holes as well as produced the smoothest patches. See the gallery
for the pictures of the fun and the video for local
media coverage
Dyno Day Results Results from the chapters most recent Dyno Day at The Dyno Shop. Results table
Anatomy of an Autocross
Learn what it takes to pull off a San Diego Chapter
Autocross in an article by
our Autocross chair
Dan Tackett's milestone birthday
Several Chapter members surprised Dan Tackett before his milestone birthday
with a cake and singing at the October Autocross. That evening, Roundel
Editor Satch Carlson shared some verse he had written to commemorate Dan's constant wordplay...
An L-egy for a Pundit, By Satch Carlson
October 26th Autocross Results
The results for the October 26th Autocross are available here
Pictures from Speedfest
Our newsletter editor, Bill Woolard, was at the Speedfest. Here
are some of his pictures.
Poker Rally
It was Sunday, September 21st. An overcast day but perfect for an early morning drive. As I drove up
to Cunningham BMW's used car lot, I immediately noticed an issue....
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Hot Fun, Buttonwillow 2008
It was all about Bertha really. Was she going to make it over the Grapevine this year? You see,
last year my wife and I named our club truck Bertha; big, wide, slow, clumsy ...
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Buttonwillow 2008 Photo Galleries
Club Race
Driving School
Video of our First Driving School
Our first Driving School was way back in 1989 at the desolate Holtville airport raceway (near El Centro).
We had some
unexpected guests, the British Royal Air Force paratroopers who offered to exchange rides in their vehicle
for rides in ours. Easy decision. We also wanted to set up a photo of them flying over a line-up of cars.
The first pass provided the perfect photo opp, a shot that made the cover of the newsletter. But then they came
back unexpectedly for a second pass See the video here
Cunningham Autocross Runoff
The return of an autocross runoff was inspired by the memory of Rug Cunningham and his legacy
of friendly competition.
Jeff Gerken, Center Operator of our autocross supporter Cunningham BMW, offered to create
the Rug Cunningham Memorial
Trophy to award to a BMW CCA member every year.
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