- 109
- 43 477
MERGESORTRACING
United States
Приєднався 21 жов 2019
Welcome to my racing and track day adventures. I participate with my BMW E46 M3 in many local NorCal track events, sometimes in SoCal and even PNW. I previously tracked a Subaru WRX (VA) and a Mazda Miata NA6.
Come along to see me go faster, and maybe even score a podium or two.
Come along to see me go faster, and maybe even score a podium or two.
Thunderhill East Bypass || BMW E46 M3 || Chasing our TT4 E36 M3
We had a test day at Thunderhill East and I brought my car in addition to testing and practicing in the E36. Surprisingly, the E36 pulls about the same as my E46 does. That's the magic of a final drive and big weight reduction.
mergesortracing
mergesortracing
Переглядів: 69
Відео
Thunderhill East Bypass || BMW E36 M3 TT4 || 2:02.303 Lap || Personal Best
Переглядів 1009 годин тому
Open test day session in our Lucky Dog Group A / NASA TT4 E36! I really liked driving this car and it's such a fun experience. Tires are our old RS4's, so a 2:02 I think is quite good for the way the car's set up. mergesortracing
Buttonwillow 13CW || BMW E46 M3 || 1:57.945 || Personal Best
Переглядів 21321 день тому
Finally joining the sub-2 club at Buttonwillow! Threw on a fresh set of RE-71RS tires and made it happen. I had the aim showing a potential 1:57.7, but I started braking for sunset a bit too early. Anyways. Took about 9 months to do it, now it's time to address the setup's limitations to get even faster! mergesortracing
Thunderhill East Bypass || BMW E46 M3 || 1:59.286 || Personal Best #Gridlife
Переглядів 367Місяць тому
First Gridlife TrackBattle event in the books! My car got classified as Street Mod because of its carbon fiber roof, which put it up against E92 M3's and Supras. There was no real competition against them, but I had one goal this weekend- sub 2 at Thunderhill East. And guess what, I did it twice! BMW E46 M3, no aero, 3350lbs @ 295WHP 1 Way Ground Control Coilovers 255/35/18 Bridgestone Potenza ...
Thunderhill West || Ford Crown Victoria || Trying out a Police Interceptor on track
Переглядів 1442 місяці тому
This is by far one of the goofiest things I've driven. It's quite fun! The fastest laps I managed to pull were 1:40, with a lost 1:39 due to a car being in the way. mergesortracing
Thunderhill West || BMW E46 M3 || 1:23.046 || Personal Best
Переглядів 2892 місяці тому
OnGrid's inaugural Motorsports Meetup was a blast, and during the first time attack session, I landed a solid new PB! Exactly 10 years ago, @DanAvon landed a 1:22 in a similar setup, so being less than half a second off that lap is a good personal accomplishment. Quick build sheet of the car: 300whp, stock motor 3300lbs w/ driver & gas TC design half cage Ground Control 1-way coilovers Rear cam...
[Sim] E46 M3 @ Circuit of the Americas PB 2:24.340
Переглядів 153 місяці тому
Two laps at COTA the first one I cut T6 a bit too much in my opinion, so I replicated the 2:24 time right afterwards. I think a low 20 is in sights if I string it together better! mergesortracing
[Sim] Rush SR @ Sonoma Raceway PB 1:44.030
Переглядів 133 місяці тому
Tried out the Rush SR at Sonoma Raceway. Pretty fun experience! mergesortracing
[Sim] Rush SR @ Laguna Seca PB 1:37.104
Переглядів 183 місяці тому
Found a model of the Rush SR and decided to replicate the GridLife Laguna experience at home. Pretty fun car, but it plows and locks up a bit too easily. mergesortracing
[Sim] E46 M3 @ Circuit of the Americas PB 2:26.319
Переглядів 73 місяці тому
What if I took my E46 M3 over to COTA? mergesortracing
[Sim] E46 M3 @ Buttonwillow 13CW PB 1:52.622
Переглядів 143 місяці тому
Definitely faster in the sim than IRL, and the track surface is way smoother in the game than it really is. The tires are way grippier than IRL too. Fun practice, though! mergesortracing
[Sim] Toyota GR86 Cup @ Ridge Motorsports Park PB 1:50.623
Переглядів 353 місяці тому
Trying out something different in between IRL track events. Here's a PB lap of me driving the Toyota GR86 Cup Car at Ridge Motorsports Park. mergesortracing
[Sim] Toyota GR86 Cup @ Sonoma Raceway PB 1:44.913
Переглядів 93 місяці тому
Trying out something different in between IRL track events. Here's a PB lap of me driving the Toyota GR86 Cup Car at Sonoma Raceway. mergesortracing
[Sim] Mazda MX5 Cup @ Laguna Seca PB 1:40.970
Переглядів 283 місяці тому
Trying out something different in between IRL track events. Here's a PB lap of me driving the Mazda MX-5 (Miata ND) Cup Car at Laguna Seca. mergesortracing
[Sim] E46 M3 @ Lime Rock Park PB 0:56.477
Переглядів 63 місяці тому
Trying out something different in between IRL track events. Here's a PB lap of me driving the E46 M3 at Lime Rock Park. mergesortracing
[Sim] E46 M3 GTR @ Ridge Motorsports Park PB 1:34.345
Переглядів 123 місяці тому
[Sim] E46 M3 GTR @ Ridge Motorsports Park PB 1:34.345
[Sim] E36 M3 Evo @ Thunderhill 5 Mile PB 3:16.197
Переглядів 113 місяці тому
[Sim] E36 M3 Evo @ Thunderhill 5 Mile PB 3:16.197
[Sim] E36 M3 Evo @ Sonoma Raceway PB 1:51.830
Переглядів 103 місяці тому
[Sim] E36 M3 Evo @ Sonoma Raceway PB 1:51.830
Thunderhill East || BMW E46 M3 || 2:00.958 || (old) Personal Best
Переглядів 1584 місяці тому
Thunderhill East || BMW E46 M3 || 2:00.958 || (old) Personal Best
Ridge Motorsports Park || BMW E46 M3 || 1:52.533 || Personal Best
Переглядів 5564 місяці тому
Ridge Motorsports Park || BMW E46 M3 || 1:52.533 || Personal Best
Laguna Seca || BMW E46 M3 || 1:41.604 || Personal Best
Переглядів 3726 місяців тому
Laguna Seca || BMW E46 M3 || 1:41.604 || Personal Best
Sonoma Raceway || BMW E36 M3 || Lucky Dog Racing League "Revenge of the Underdogs" 2024 || Saturday
Переглядів 3886 місяців тому
Sonoma Raceway || BMW E36 M3 || Lucky Dog Racing League "Revenge of the Underdogs" 2024 || Saturday
Sonoma Raceway || E36 M3 TT4 Lucky Dog Class A || 1:54.606 || Personal Best
Переглядів 1906 місяців тому
Sonoma Raceway || E36 M3 TT4 Lucky Dog Class A || 1:54.606 || Personal Best
Thunderhill East || BMW E46 M3 || 2:02.957 || (old) Personal Best
Переглядів 3297 місяців тому
Thunderhill East || BMW E46 M3 || 2:02.957 || (old) Personal Best
Thunderhill West || E36 M3 TT4 Lucky Dog Group A || 1:25.683 || Personal Best
Переглядів 937 місяців тому
Thunderhill West || E36 M3 TT4 Lucky Dog Group A || 1:25.683 || Personal Best
Thunderhill East || BMW E46 M3 || 2:03.868 || (old) Personal Best
Переглядів 967 місяців тому
Thunderhill East || BMW E46 M3 || 2:03.868 || (old) Personal Best
Thunderhill West || BMW E46 M3 || 1:24.167 || (old) Personal Best
Переглядів 2199 місяців тому
Thunderhill West || BMW E46 M3 || 1:24.167 || (old) Personal Best
Buttonwillow 13CW || E46 M3 || Shakedown (old) Personal Best || 2:00.11
Переглядів 4809 місяців тому
Buttonwillow 13CW || E46 M3 || Shakedown (old) Personal Best || 2:00.11
Buttonwillow 13CW || Subaru VA WRX || 2:05.372 Personal Best
Переглядів 15010 місяців тому
Buttonwillow 13CW || Subaru VA WRX || 2:05.372 Personal Best
Thunderhill East || 1.6L NA6 Miata || Personal Best || 2:08.724
Переглядів 389Рік тому
Thunderhill East || 1.6L NA6 Miata || Personal Best || 2:08.724
great driving! dope seeing u catch and pass Porsche's in entirely different leagues of cost
fkin ripping it!, great driving and angle
Great driving!
the crunch into 2nd gear is wild lmao
just how i like my potato chips
All thanks to the CAE shifter of course. Lol great lap
it's so good
awesome laps buddy!! Huge congraz!
That’s some damn good driving man
solid
Great lap! Is the data overlay from the Aim or something else?
Yep, the data is exported from AiM and I stitched the video with RaceRender.
Nice lines, car looks dialed in.
Great lap! I really I really like that camera angle. Are you using a special mount for the helmet?
It’s the Boss Boss mount for GoPro! I strongly suggest getting stronger tape for it and making sure the visor surface is really clean.
Nice driving!
Good times!
3:14:40😂
Great racing with you guys! we are #444
what oil do you run?
I don’t ever think I’ve once heard anyone honk their honk on a track. 😂
Nice! Just a hair faster than a base model Tesla ua-cam.com/video/9yO4oENTVCE/v-deo.htmlsi=RwGR_hgj5VTgKF69
I was there last week. Thank you for sharing insight of your lines. One day. I'll break into the 1.2X range lol.
RIP Miata 😢
If you wore long pants it would have been sub 1:24 for sure
Each inch cut from the shorts is a second off the lap time. I don’t make the rules.
Damn, that's some nice front-end grip. What tires were you on?
I was on RE71RS. Surprisingly it still kept me in the S4 class, so figured why not maximize that by the rules 😉
Nice! I really need to get my T6 turn-in speed up
Sad to see the 'Yata temporarily sidelined but hope to see it back better than ever eventually! Nice lap, e46 looks like a blast, you planning to do Shootout this year again with that car?
Yep, already signed up for Buttonwillow in May! It's now called OnGrid Time Attack :)
@@mergesortracing I'll see you out there!
Dude... nice work. I'm impressed the re71s hold on for that many laps. Great lap time. Very impressive
I really like the V730s. Mine just started to chord, assuming they're probably good for 3-4 more track days
The tie rod has developed Peyronie disease.
Such beautiful smooth driving. Nice work, sir.
Great editing ahaha thank you! Well dealt with a tedious mishap
Is that an NA Miata? God it sounds good... I miss mine.
I want a 4th pedal cam. 4 video feeds at the same time split in perfect quadrants.
Everybody messes up, it's part of life, but rejoinin that track when you saw another car cornering was pretty dumb
and here's the mayor of clowntown
Wait, who's the clown, you or the other guy?
Better to bend a tie rod than to bend a cradle or frame.
Better to know how to drive and stay on the track.
@@Formaldehydex That's why tracks have runoff areas, part of going on track is going off track. It's a safer learning environment. I'd rather see someone go off track and bend a tie rod then go off road and bend their whole car around a pole and die. Even F1 drivers go off track, I'm pretty sure they know how to drive.
@@huzudra Going off track during a track day is so discouraged that you usually only get one warning at most. If it happens again, even sometimes in different events, you are told to pack up and go home. But knowing this would mean you actually know the facts, instead of spewing uneducated drivel,
@@Formaldehydex As I said, making mistakes is part of learning. If you never make mistakes you're not learning. Clearly you must be a bot. Going off track for the purpose of overtaking is what's frowned upon. Taking a corner too hard or misjudging a hill with a corner on the other side or in some way unsettling your suspension at the wrong point and going off track in an accidental manner during a session happens to everyone at one time or another. It happens in amateur and it happens in professional racing. If everyone who ever went off track got banned from each track they went off at then there'd be no one on any track ever anywhere because they'd all be banned.
@@huzudra This is a track day, not a race. There is no required safety equipment other than a helmet. The fact that he bent the tie rod so badly meant that he could have even rolled because he was going so quickly and the wheel struck something substantial. It appears to be a badly deteriorated side road that is no longer used, or possibly a concrete pad. You are totally clueless and have no idea whatsoever how track days are run and what is completely discouraged. He also could have easily taken out the car behind him that he was likely trying to make sure he didn’t need to allow to pass, which is also against the safety rules. Did you even pay attention to the audio? “This is watch mojo and today we are counting down our picks for the 10 most stupid people”.
Well done! Glad to see you still going at it and breaking your PRs
How do you do that first corner
press hard on brake coming in hugging far wall, as you approach apex, ease of brakes and full thottle our of corner but adjust as needed so you backend doesn't slip to much so that the kart doesnt need to fire up again. That works for me but I still slip a little too much sometimes. Probably better ways to do it
I go flat out on that turn, go near the wall but not to close. Brake a little if necessary
WOOF!!
That’s wild! I went to East a couple weeks ago in my NB2 and only managed a slow 2:20.5 with old 205 RT660s, alright brakes, and cheapish coilovers. I feel like my car has at 2:15 in it with more seat time and driver mod though. What’s your suspension, brakes, and tire setup?
I have Ohlins Road & Track coilovers with 7k and 10k springs, along with SPL tie rods. Gives me a good amount of camber adjustment. For brakes, on the fronts I have the Wilwood BBK with DTC-30 pads all four corners. For wheels/tires, I run 15x9 Konig Dekagrams with 205/50/15 RE-71RS tires for this lap. I now normally just run 225 RS4's to reduce my costs.
3:34 homey aggressively honks at Corvette lol 😂
Great driving. Was interesting to see the speed you’re able to carry into and through some of the corners. Good stuff. I’m going to try some of your lines. Great video.
Clearly, I should not be editing videos after a whole race weekend. The correct tire size is 225/45/15, not 255.
How did you feel the dynamics of these cars compared to your Miata? (other than the power of course) did the 911 and cayman have pretty different handling?
The flagger was ready with that yellow.
That guy Frank smh, I tell you what.
Yellow c7 guy can't swallow pointing by a 1.6 miata 😂
Love the Miata content!! I have a '90 1.6 that is my dedicated track car/turning into race car. Awesome stuff!
Just gonna snatch that
good run
Awesome video! Excited to see spec miata content in the future.
So much winning