![]() Hooked on the hill climb we set about building a monster of an E36, again with OPTIMA on board.Īs interesting as a monster N54 would be to build and document, the "effortless" power from an S63 was too attractive. We used this YellowTop on our first Pikes Peak entry, a BMW E92 M3 and also during the Nurburgring 24 Hour in a BMW M235i Racing. ![]() One battery used in the most punishing environments a battery would every see: from the Red Rocks of Moab to the Green Hell of the Nurburgring, a single OPTIMA YellowTop battery powered a wide range of vehicles. This project began with a torture test of an OPTIMA battery. Keep checking this page as the months and weeks count down to our future Pikes Peak International Hill Climbs! This car is so far advanced from what any other E36 has been that we need more than a year of development for it. And it's like no other E36 you have seen. We had to crest new heights and strive ever higher in our quest for speed on the mountain. ![]() For our next entry, however, we have to go beyond the realm of the typical track junkie. For 2019 we entered one of our F82 M4 GT4 race cars - tuned by Epic Motorsports and improved our time to 10:39.786. That car was built with specific objectives in mind that were not exactly optimized for a hill climb: a serious contender in the Time Attack 1 class but with many bolt-on upgrades that a weekend track toy would benefit from. The 2017 entry with a E92 M3 was our first attempt at a hill climb car and it met our expectations and performed flawlessly albeit lacking horsepower from a S65 with only bolt-on upgrades. This course is 12.42 miles and 156 turns, with a starting line at 9,100 feet above sea level, and an elevation change of 4,720 feet! Don't mistake Pikes Peak as anything but a mountain. They call it a "hill climb" but the hills are way below us. De: "Bergsteiger" : en: Mountaineer, Climberįollowing our inaugural Pikes Peak Hill Climb in 2017 - sixth in class, 11:02.966 - we approach future hillclimb efforts with a renewed appreciation for what it takes to go really, really fast up a mountain. ![]()
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