BMW Club Queensland
November 2019
THE BIMMER MONTHLY November 2019 Presidents Message A crazy busy couple of months since the meeting at Westside BMW on Friday 4th October. VIDEO We were honoured to have a club member, Dominic Corkeron present that night and regale us with the success stories of his e30 rally car.
Upcoming Events BMWCQ Border Ridges & Valleys Run 2019 Sunday 1st December 8:00am - 2:30pm
Due to bushfires and road closures, the Border Ranges Run route has been changed to a Ridges and Valleys run. There will still be a great variety of roads with lots of twisty sections and open valleys for the enjoyment of drivers and passengers. You're sure to travel roads you have never been over before.
https://youtu.be/kVza8112_LA Then, the next day, Saturday 5th October, whilst 6 of us were en route to the USA for the 50th Anniversary of the BMW Car Club of America celebrations, Page 9, our motorsport heroes were at Mt Cotton where they entered two teams in the CAMS Hill Climb Challenge and Team RX Racers won the day.. Well done all! See the report and photos on Page 4
We will meet at the Park Ridge Tavern car park, Jedfire St, Park Ridge at 7:45 am for briefing at 8:15 am. Please don't be late. The first group will depart at 8:30 am. Coffee etc. is available across the road at Maccas. Our lunch destination is the Mt Warning Hotel at Uki. You will be able to order A-La-Carte from the menu as you please. You can expect the drive to take about 3.5 hours with a rest stop along the way. Please read the BMWCQ Run Guidelines For details & to register click HERE
BMWCQ Last Supper & Meeting
Friday 13th December 6:30pm - 8:30pm
That wasn’t enough action for the weekend... Sunday 6th October, John Tait lead a field of 28 cars off on the Spring Brekky Run to Mt Mee, the destination was Birches Restaurant. For pictures, video and drive report, see Page 5
Our final meeting for the year WILL be short, then we can start the Chrismas cheer with a sausage sizzle and a couple of quiet drinks.. Come along and join in the fun! Register HERE please (For catering)
It was a busy month for Motorsport. 13th October, this time at Queensland Raceway for the RX Automotive Regularity Session.. A field of 15 entered and the best BMW on the day was the famous 635 of Larry Crouch closely followed by a novice, Dale Francis, only 1 point behind.. Girl Power! On to November and back at QR for round 6 of the Queensland Touring Car Championship with a massive field of 38 cars hitting the track at on the weekend of the 2-3rd. Out of a field of 32 cars, 14 of them were BMWs.. What a great turn out and result. See the report, photos and video on Page 7
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BMW Club Queensland
November 2019
More Presidents message!! November and we kicked off a little late this month due to so many of the committee being away, so first on the calender was the club meeting at Brisbane BMW on Friday 15th. Great to see a number of new and potential members there. It was a long and interesting meeting. Thanks to one of our new members, Russell Thomas from Events Cinemas, we were able to hold a major social and promotional red carpet screening of the new Ford V Ferrari movie at one of their cinemas at Browns Plains on Sunday November 17th. As well as our members, we invited many of our club sponsors and supporters along for the afternoon. The cost of admission was a Gold Coin for SE Queensland drought relief. We took the opportunity to showcase our club on the ‘Big Screen’ prior to the feature with this promotional film Read the story Page 6
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BMW Club Queensland
November 2019
CAMS & ICC Hill Climb Challenge - Mt Cotton 5 Oct 2019 .....by Denis Weisz th
October was a busy month for Club Motorsport with 2 events involving club members. The first major event was the Queensland round of CAMS Hill Climb Challenge, also a round of the InterClub Challenge this year. The club furnished 2 teams with 7 entries total, however with the last minute withdrawal of one team member, that meant we had the minimum of 3 per team. With 12 teams in total entered from many clubs, it made for a very mixed and varied entry list. New competition rules for this event meant there were no classes with basically all entrants were competing against themselves, with the difference from their two fastest runs taken to give a score, and added to create a team score, with lowest scoring team winning. Our team of Simon and Pierz Harrex and Alan Moore achieved some very close times, with Pierz and Simon both achieving just 0.04 seconds difference in 2 runs and Alan a 0.16, giving a team total of just 0.24 seconds. Especially impressive from Simon who had not driven at Mt Cotton for 28 years. With such a low score, the outcome was inevitable, with Team RX Racers coming first and winning a hefty $2500 for the club charity fund. Our second team, The Beaming Beemers of Chris Price, Peter Mastalir, and Charlie Tutt followed up in 7th place, a fantastic effort all round. More PHOTOS
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BMW Club Queensland
November 2019
Spring Brekky Run - QR 6 Oct 2019 .....by John Tait th
The Spring Brekky Run went off without a hitch with 28 cars. We had a pretty clear run along most of the interesting roads. Everyone seemed to thoroughly enjoy the drive and the excellent Farmer’s Big breakfast at Birches Restaurant on Mt Mee. Birches did a fabulous job of getting the meals out to all 49 of us within 30 minutes. We were joined by 7 non-members on the day, hopefully some of these may now be members. A free raffle for the non-members with a prize of 12 months BMWCQ membership was won by Nick Domrow. Congratulations Nick.
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A big thank you to Russel Thomas for the PHOTOS and video.
RX Automotive Afternoon Regularity Session - QR 13th Oct .....by Denis Weisz Our next event was a long awaited return to our weekend Afternoon Regularity Sessions, and last event for our Sprint Series for 2018-19. This time at QR. With a good field of 15 entrants, including 7 M cars and a GT3 Porsche, a couple of MX-5's and even a Holden HSV, we were set for some interesting competition. After a practice round and goal times nominated, 3 more runs were enjoyed. When the results were tallied, the trophy was taken by Clive Huebler from the MX-5 Club on just 84 points, followed by our regularity master Larry Crouch. Congratulations also to Michael Francis wife, Dale in 3rd place, showing the boy’s how its done, just 1 point behind Larry. Not bad for her first time on track, proving these events are ideal for the novice as well as the more experienced.
Thanks to Russell Thomas for this video and more PHOTOS https://youtu.be/BYD2dBQzi8M
BMW Club Queensland Membership Monthly
November 2019
EVENT Cinemas - Ford V Ferrari Social Sunday 17th November 2019
405 As a special thank you to our sponsors, supporters, members and guests, we organised the premier screening of the new Ford V Ferrari Members since 5th October 2019 25 movie at the Event Cinemas at Browns Plains. As well as our members, there was a lot of support from BMW Club Gold Coast.. 1639 Julie Evens Buderim Great to see you all there! We also raised money via Gold Coin E90 335i Msport 1735 Grant Green Ashgrove donations for SE Queensland drought relief. X5 M 50D - Radical SR3 We would like to thank Russell Thomas, and the staff at Browns Plains 2039 Chris Kamitsis Spring Hill for making the day so special. We also took the oportunity to F30 328i 2013 - E92 M3 2011 showcase some of the BMW Club Queenslands activities up on the 2155 Nick Domrow big screen. If you missed it, HERE it is again. More PHOTOS here. E82 135 2156 Ian Kilpatrick Bullyard E36 318is 2157 Brian Davies Samford Valley Current Members:
E85 Z4 2158 Philip Sanderson Narangba F01 740i - F10 535D 2159 John Ashton Hamilton 1M 2160 Alistair Squires Toowoomba Z3 2.8 2161 Craig Pardoe Eatons Hill E83 x3 - E34 525 touring - E34 540 2162 Andrew Donohue Woolloongabba BMW 135i 2163 Warren Henry Hendra E30 325i 2164 James Stewart Banyo MX5 2165 Michael Hewitt Westend 1985 E30 323i 2166 Justin Greenway Mango Hill E30 320i 2167 Bernie O’Brien Eatons Hill 123D Coupe 2168 Athol Flett 230i 2169 Dean Wort Laceys Creek E46 2170 Craig Celliers Thornlands F87 M2 Competition 2171 Shams Arifin Redbank Plains G01 X3 M-Sport 2172 Tony James Middle Ridge E89 Z4 2173 Mark Vigors Lawnton F30 340i 2174 John Parker Fortitude Valley 135i 2175 Will Cook Thornlands E38 735il 2176 Alex Wilson Margate F34 328i
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BMW Club Queensland Bimmer Classifieds 1989 E30 318i (323 conversion) Replaced M20 engiine, M3 Calipers, 5 speed Getrag, new exhaust new starter motor, no rego, body need work. PHOTOS Jarron Skeratt jarronsk@outlook.com $Offers 1996 E36 318i One Owner “Benson” 300k very god condition excppt for cracked head, in box with parts. Everything else well maintained. $Offers Chris Szigeti PHOTOS 0418 317674 chris@mortgagescando.com.au 2004 E46 M3 SMG PHOTOS One of the best unmolested E46 M3s 135500 Klm. Dark silver/grey 19" CSL wheels (Unmarked) Rear Subframe reinforcement completed Dec 2016 Wayne Lamb. 0408 872 316 or wlamb.wde@gmail.com $37,990 Ready to negotiate with serious buyer
1989 E30 318i PHOTOS 2dr Coupe Structurally sound but mechanically decayed. Suit restoration Keith Harmes 0402 14 4547 Offers 2004 E46 325Ci PHOTOS First Registered 2005, Automatic, black with beige interior. 56,000 km genuine. Two owner, good condition, new Michelin tyres. Jeff Pinchen 0417 050 335 jpin@bigpond.com $12,000 ono Number plate MMM140 Brand new. never used, sold car.... Slimline White on Black $400 Vaughan Wishart 0419936 025
November 2019
2019 Racer Industries Queensland Touring Car Championship ....by Richard Gresham Queensland Raceway hosted the 2019 QTCC Grand final on November 2-3. In Class A1, Chris Sharples (Monaro) had one hand on the championship trophy coming into this weekend, and by the end of the opening day, he had secured his first QTCC title. Piers Harrex (BMW E30) was the only threat to Sharples, but a costly seventh place finish, in the opening race, put pay to any hope the BMW driver had of causing the upset.
Quick Stats: 39 Cars ran in Saturday qualifying & 14 were BMWs: In order of qualifying results: Mitch Wooller E36, Pierz Harrex E30, Matt Swarbrooke E46, Lance Jurgeleit E36, Leon Kemp E36, Gary Lange E46 John Swarbrooke E46, John Phoenix E36, Maddii Crowe E46, Scott Kelly E36, Andrew Knight E46, Peter Jolly E30, Malcolm Douglas E30, Richard Gresham*2002 VIDEO PHOTOS (Fiona Carmichael – Fi Fotos) & RESULTS
Richard Gresham’s story: Car dropped an oil line on the first hot lap of qualifying - I spun on the oil - so no qualifying times set. You have to set two times as this gives grid positions for Races 1 & 3, so I had rear of grid starts for those two races. Battled from 39th to around 25th when the throttle cable broke on lap 4 – so that meant another RoG start for race 2.. Battled my way from 36th to 12th, but of course did not start there for race three as I was RoG again and finished 17th. Race 4 saw me pick up a few more spots to finish 11th in the final race and third of the BMWs home behind Pierz & Mitch. In Car Video
JAY LENO'S GARAGE TOUR! Join Jay Leno for a tour to take in some of the eclectic mix of cars on display. Inside the halls are a huge variety of different automobiles, motorcycles and automotive memorabilia. From modern super and hypercars like the McLaren P1, Porsche Carrera GT, Ford GT and Acura NSX, to the almighty BMW ///Mpowered McLaren F1.
There is no other collection like it in the world when it comes to sheer variety and the impressive nature of Jay's knowledge about each and every one of them. VIDEO
BMW Club Queensland
BMWCQ Christmas Party .....by Gary Schweikert
November 2019
2020 RX Automotive Sprint Series Rnd 1
The BMW Club QLD Annual Christmas Celebration was held on Sunday 24th November and this year we returned to Casa Domrow, with Peter and Leanne our hosts at their wonderful property at Domrow Road, Camp Mountain. Thank you! There was no excuse to get lost, was there Rebecca!
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A record field turned out for the first round of next year’s series with our track day partners, the MX-5 Club at Lakeside on Friday 22nd November.
The weather was a cracker and perfect temperature for a cool drink and a swim. There were about 60 guests there and it was wonderful to see a number of new faces joining in the one of the clubs special social activities. Check out the PHOTOS
Congratulations to Ben Malpass for the fastest (sub 60 second) lap of the day closely followed by Rick Catania. The highlight of the morning was the presentation of trophies to the individual class winners and announcement of the club’s outright champion for 2018/19. Again, congratulations Ben Malpass for taking out the 2019 RX Automotive Sprint Series. Ben started the year driving his F80 M3 in ///M class, then with an E36 M3, he moved to T1 class for race cars.
Of course, what would a Christmas Celebration be without a visit from Santa to distribute gifts to the children. In past years Santa has arrived at our Christmas parties by Jet Ski, convertible, and even Mini Bike, how did he arrive this year?
I would like to thank all 81 club members who participated in track events this year as well as our track day partners, MX-5 Club and all the non-members who made this our biggest attended year ever. We look forward to seeing even more at our track days next year and, on behalf of all our attendees, wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe New Year. Denis Weisz, BMWCQ Motorsport Director Thank you again to Russell Thomas for the great VIDEOS and PHOTOS .
November 2019
BMW Club Queensland
.....by Gary Schweikert
BMW Car Club of America https://youtu.be/luDfmMQ0haE
Some of the Aussies (and the Kiwi) were asked to be judges for their Concours on the Wednesday. The main street was closed and the array of BMWs were awesome. The only dampener was the rain, which kept the numbers of cars and people rather low.. PHOTOS BMW CCA celebrated their 50th year with their O’fest in Greenville, South Carolina from 14 -19th Oct. Their club has 70,000 members so you can imagine the scale of a special celebration like this. There were 9 Aussies visiting including Luke Wise, President of Club ACT, Simon Branston ACT, Greg & Leanne Tymms, John & Maryann Fairman and Sue & I, all from BMWCQ. The 9th Aussie was Ian Branston, ex ACT, who now lives in Greenville and is married to Lindsay Sizemore-Branston, the CFO of BMW CCA. We flew into Georgia the weekend prior and had an amazing time at the final round of the 2019 IMSA championship at Road, Atlanta. BMW was a major competitor there and on the last lap of the 10 hour Petit Le Mans, Bill Auberlen in a BMW M6 GT3 caught and overtook the leading Mercedes to win his class! VIDEO
We could not leave South Carolina without a tour of the BMW Group Plant Spartanburg. This is where the entire X range of cars are built for the world. The numbers are staggering... 11,000 employees, $10.6 billion invested, 7 million square feet, they have produced 4.7 million vehicles, and currently produce 1,400 vehicles daily. Unfortunately PHOTOS were only allowed in the museum, not in the factory. But let’s not forget what this trip was about. Great cars with amazing motor racing heritage. That’s why I spent the money for a charity ‘Hot Laps’ ride in the famous #25 3.0CSL PHOTOS
https://youtu.be/VqJ5gOopn9M O’fest started on Monday with a Ladies Day at the BMW Performance Drivers Centre. Leanne & Sue did extremely well, considering they were driving on the wrong side of the car and road. Photos & Video Here is the Complete Schedule of the weeks events. Tuesday, it was the boys turn on the track and we Aussies were joined by Gerry Hodges, President of the New Zealand BMW Club. PHOTOS
And now for something completely different..........
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The celebrations were based at the Hyatt Regency Greenville for the week where there were countless social, technical and BMW focused events with displays, workshops, food and drink in abundance. Thanks Dinan! We were made extraordinarily welcome.
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“Call that a hat?”
One of the companies that is based in South Carolina not far from BMW is Michelin. They have incredible testing facility at Laurens with numerous testing tracks and we were fortunate to be given various cars to try out their tyres. PHOTOS VIDEOS The week closed with a BBQ, beach party and official opening of the BMWCCA Head Office. Great times, many memories and lots of new friends. Thanks to everyone who made this trip possible! Congratulations! “Surfing USA Dance!” VIDEO