Tuesday morning crews awoke to torrential rain, but this put a huge smile on the faces of our team of Mike Renner, Tom Lappin and Michael Broad as this weather will certainly highlight the true capabilities for BMW’s xDrive system.
At the track a driver meeting was called to discuss options for the day as track and One Lap officials deemed it too dangerous to run the drag race and full time trials as the circuit crosses over the start of the drag strip. It was agreed to run the two time trials as Solo 1 type events, starting and finishing either side of the strip.
With the weather in our favor Mike put the pedal to the metal and recorded a 1:42.331, just 3 seconds slower than the leading Nissan GTR driven by Catesby Jones! And just for good measure repeated the same for the afternoon session 1:41.198 for Mike and 1:40.326 for the GTR.
Once our runs were completed the team packed up and headed south east to Motorsport Ranch in Cresson, TX. With these two excellent drives from Ike we left Pueblo in P13 overall, can we maintain this climb up the leaderboard to get inside the top ten? But first another long transit section and with the team short on sleep, it was nice to have the ability to switch the X6M controls to full comfort mode and grab a few zzzzzzz’s, except for the driver of course!