My company (Turn 14 Distribution) hosted our annual company day at Maple Grove Raceway in PA today. We rented the track for some intense bracket racing and a nice cookout ;-) Temps were in the 70s which made for a nice event.
For a 180hp/280tq, 4065lb (w driver) AWD pig I was pretty impressed with the results. I made 12 runs and my best result is pictured below. Car 102 - 15.519 @ a blistering 87.33 mph. Most of my runs were in the 15.5x range at 86.7-87.3 mph. The car is stock other than a drop in aFe filter.
I used 'launch control' every time which was pretty repeatable. The only problem I had was seen when powerbraking it for more than say ~5 seconds (waiting for the tree) The revs just drop and you will bog off the line despite anything you do.
I remember researching this car and heard people saying it was a 17 second car. I've seen results showing it as a high 16 second car. Neither are true ;-) Motorweek has a 328d sedan running 14.7@96mph here, which seems a bit hard to believe:
http://www.motorweek.org/reviews/roa.../2014_bmw_328d
Either way, the car is still slow, but better than I expected :-)
3850lbs, no driver with 3/4 tank of fuel.
