Bmws Have Broken The 20 Year Old Standing Start 1Km Record

[f-wolf]

April 8, 2010

From South Africa

Two Castrol Edge backed BMWs have broken the 20 year old Standing Start 1km record of 24.318 seconds for road going cars that was set by Peter Manelis in a Pontiac Trans-Am back in March 1990.

The cars, a 595kW BMW E46 M3 Turbo and a 410 kW BMW E36 328i Turbo, piloted by Sav Gaultieri and Mark Jones respectively, ran average times of 20.889 seconds and 22.731 seconds to not only break the old record, but also post new records in class 9 and 8 of the SA Speed Record register.

Both cars ran faultlessly and the times achieved were backed up within the regulatory one hour window period, while Motorsport South Africa representatives kept a close eye on proceedings to ensure that everything was conducted as per the rule book.

The real relevance of this feat becomes clear when you come to know that both the cars, whilst being turbocharged by aftermarket BMW specialist Savspeed Auto, ran in street legal form at only 1.2 bar boost and were shod with over the counter everyday Yokohama Advan Sport rubber.

What this means is that there were no stripped-out interiors, plastic windows, NOS or special drag type slick tyres used on the day, and this was mainly done in the interest of seeing what these everyday cars could do against clock and also set the benchmark for future challengers to compete with similar street cars and not out-and-out race cars.

From : http://www.autodealer.co.za/top_story/e2a094cb9565e7f4e400e2664b164050/

Edited 09/04/10 02:15 AM by f-wolf

[XF Falcon]

Interesting that the record held for 20 years.

Is this something that isn't attempted to be beaten all the time? Because you would imagine there would have been many cars within the past 20 years which could have beaten the record you'd think?

[NB4C]

It's quite possible the Veyron could beat that. It has 700 kw and does the quarter at around 10 seconds. The only catch is that they have to be road cars, and the Bugatti is street legal.

[seduced]

Saleen s7 does it in 22seconds. I imagine the bugatti isnt far off that pace either.

Its like someone decided to look up the standing mile record one day and went "oh crap, its 20 years old, obviously no one has bothered to give this a crack since..." and them promptly smashed it.

[our06t]

22 sec is still over a full sec slower than the M3 it is modified though , I'd imagine the top speed and high speed stability would be major factors ,surely the 300km an hour mark would be in the picture after 1km of full throttle.

but yeh suprised some million dollar super car hasn't had a go at it yet

Edited 09/04/10 04:45 AM by our06t

[Buf-Phoon]

Imagine piloting one of our ships at 300 kph even with some suspesion work.

North of 250 ( on a proper track ) they start to waft and are bit of a handful

[tinyplums]

I dont think any of this is right, the McLaren F1 does it in 19.6 @ 177 mph

pretty sure this was broken by the ultima gtr 720, which also holds the 0-100-0 record

[power_slide]

where could I test the ute, I wanna give it a shot

[_Spin_]

lol.. everytime a forum member is in Europe, particularly Germany they post: zomfg I wish I had my F6 or T here!!!!

I`d love to see what mine would do. What would a 400rwkw T do?? Mines not that powerful but still.. Be interesting eh.

PS, didn`t those Seth Efrican fellas also set a BLIND kilometre record? With a blind gy driving??

Edited 09/04/10 11:42 AM by _Spin_