MopàrBCN
09-07-2008, 11:39 AM
Hi,
this weekend was the 10th Maxi Tuning Show in Montmelo.
Montmelo in Spain is what would be Indianapolis for US Race Enthusiasts. So big audience and a big track.
The event itself is the biggest gathering in Spain for Tuning freaks. Now, Tuning in our terms is taking a farting bumblbee and putting on a lot of spoilers big exhaust so a 12cui engine is audible as well. The other aspect of tuning are asien cars pumped up to its limit with super- or turbochargers.
The contrapoint to those 2 groups are people like me who are interested in american cars. This group is quite small and enjoys purity in terms of visual aspect but performance under the hood. I in turn are the black sheep in this group because I am the only one going with a 4 cylinder car. All others are V8 from all decades.
So to have an opponent and an enemy for those tuning guys they invite our club every year and actually pay us to participate.
The Drag Challange was in front of ca. 10 000 Spectators. It is made up of around 60 cars competing. Of those cars let's say at least 20 cars are thrown in from professional tuners, round 20 of our cars and the rest individuals who want to show off their rides.
Important is that all of our cars are prepared by individuals with a lot of passion. This weights even more if you know that half of the Top 10 cars in this event are US Cars from our club. The remaining cars without exception are from professionals who use this event to advertise their cars. The winner is every year the same and is paid by the main sponsor. Ironically it's an US Car as well, a VIPER with round 1000hp.
Unfortunately (this is Spain) I don't have the results as yet. I don't even know my timeslip yet.
Only so much:
I did not qualify for the eliminatories (top 16 Times out of all cars).
But I won my cualifying race (challanged by a Honda CRX VTI - something with a supercharger and said to be between 200 and 300 hp) He challanged me, so I was happy to compete and to win.
The results I will post once I have them, but upfront some unfortunatly not high cuality pics but just to give you an idea of the event:
1. This was lining up to enter the track (take note of the spectators block!)
http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081819qb5.jpg
http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081941dx0.jpg
2. My Daytona getting ready....
http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081951oe2.jpg
3. Looking at where I would be lined up soon...
http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081942im3.jpg
4. Finally stagin (it was dark by then....)
http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609082120wk8.jpg
This foto no mirrors in no way how impressive it really was.
Edit, I don't know why the fotos don't display: Here the link to the pics:
http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081819qb5.jpg
http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081941dx0.jpg
http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081951oe2.jpg
http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081942im3.jpg
http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609082120wk8.jpg
This race and having a croud cheering after the win I can say was the most emotional moment since I got my first Turbo Mopar!
Results and official info I will post once available.....
this weekend was the 10th Maxi Tuning Show in Montmelo.
Montmelo in Spain is what would be Indianapolis for US Race Enthusiasts. So big audience and a big track.
The event itself is the biggest gathering in Spain for Tuning freaks. Now, Tuning in our terms is taking a farting bumblbee and putting on a lot of spoilers big exhaust so a 12cui engine is audible as well. The other aspect of tuning are asien cars pumped up to its limit with super- or turbochargers.
The contrapoint to those 2 groups are people like me who are interested in american cars. This group is quite small and enjoys purity in terms of visual aspect but performance under the hood. I in turn are the black sheep in this group because I am the only one going with a 4 cylinder car. All others are V8 from all decades.
So to have an opponent and an enemy for those tuning guys they invite our club every year and actually pay us to participate.
The Drag Challange was in front of ca. 10 000 Spectators. It is made up of around 60 cars competing. Of those cars let's say at least 20 cars are thrown in from professional tuners, round 20 of our cars and the rest individuals who want to show off their rides.
Important is that all of our cars are prepared by individuals with a lot of passion. This weights even more if you know that half of the Top 10 cars in this event are US Cars from our club. The remaining cars without exception are from professionals who use this event to advertise their cars. The winner is every year the same and is paid by the main sponsor. Ironically it's an US Car as well, a VIPER with round 1000hp.
Unfortunately (this is Spain) I don't have the results as yet. I don't even know my timeslip yet.
Only so much:
I did not qualify for the eliminatories (top 16 Times out of all cars).
But I won my cualifying race (challanged by a Honda CRX VTI - something with a supercharger and said to be between 200 and 300 hp) He challanged me, so I was happy to compete and to win.
The results I will post once I have them, but upfront some unfortunatly not high cuality pics but just to give you an idea of the event:
1. This was lining up to enter the track (take note of the spectators block!)
http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081819qb5.jpg
http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081941dx0.jpg
2. My Daytona getting ready....
http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081951oe2.jpg
3. Looking at where I would be lined up soon...
http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081942im3.jpg
4. Finally stagin (it was dark by then....)
http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609082120wk8.jpg
This foto no mirrors in no way how impressive it really was.
Edit, I don't know why the fotos don't display: Here the link to the pics:
http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081819qb5.jpg
http://img382.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081941dx0.jpg
http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081951oe2.jpg
http://img374.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609081942im3.jpg
http://img378.imageshack.us/my.php?image=0609082120wk8.jpg
This race and having a croud cheering after the win I can say was the most emotional moment since I got my first Turbo Mopar!
Results and official info I will post once available.....