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This was the first opportunity to meet with CarBahn Motorsports and their
owner Steve Dinan. Dinan is well known in the BMW community having
raced in years past and developed performance parts for BMWs for many
years. Some time ago he sold the business under his name and " retired " .
He discovered that he wasn't ready for retirement, so he's back racing
BMWs. His cars have shown good speed but haven't finished well yet.
I'm sure, however, that Dinan will be successful with his return to motorsports
with the BMW brand.
The VP Racing Sportscar Challenge is a developmental series for
■ (Above ) Paul Miller M4 GT3 GTD Pro in the Snake heading to the
Climbing Esses..
drivers rated as silver or bronze by the FIA (Federation Internationale de
l'Automobile). There is a separate Bronze Cup for the bronze rated drivers.
These races include LMP3 cars and GT cars. A weekend includes two 45minute
races, so there's ample track time for driver development. Entered
in the VP series were the G82 BMW M4 GT4s from Turner Motorsports,
Auto Technic Racing and Split Decision Motorsports. Turner has the
familiar Vin Barletta, who has driven for them in both the VP series and the
Michelin Pilot Challenge. Auto Technic was running an M4 for Mark
Brummond with Patrick Wilmot driving from Split Decision.
In the Michelin Pilot Challenge, it has not been a strong year for the
M4 GT4s. We saw quite a show at Daytona, but then many of the cars
experienced fuel problems. Since then, the BMWs have been down on
power. During the visit with Turner Motorsports, the suggestion was that
Turner hasn't qualified well but has done better in race settings. We've seen
during the season that the Turner cars come through the field late in the race
to get their best finishes. The BMW GT4 cars can have the power adjusted
via insertion of different USB sticks as part of the BoP process. Coming to
VIR, Turner had Megennis and Machavern fifth in the season point
standings, with Foley and Selldorff in ninth. The CarBahn team has shown
excellent promise, but no luck at all. Both teams got reasonable results at
the earlier race at Road America finishing sixth, seventh & ninth.
For the GT Challenge at VIR, we had the Paul Miller Racing M4 GT3 in
■ (Above) The #1 Paul Miller Racing BMW M4 GT3 in Hog Pen on its way
to victory.
GTD Pro and the Turner Motorsports M4 GT3 in GTD. Coming to VIR,
Turner got the GTD win at Road America with Miller finishing in second in
GTD Pro. So there were good solid results in the previous event. Miller
■ (Below) Madison Snow and the Paul Miller M4 GT3 lead the field at the race start.
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