Mario Bonfante's Race back to the Podium!: Updated walk around video & next years schedule

Monday, December 12, 2011

Updated walk around video & next years schedule

Hey everyone how's it going!

I finally got around to washing the car and made a brief walk around video so you guys can hear and see what the white knights all about... She's still got a ways to go but it's comin... Were planning on mounting the seat last cuz once that's in there's no adjustment. Cars making funny noises and tranny's slipping super bad but we hope to address all that this week.

Check it out...

I also have done my research and weighed out my options and decided to just wait, save up and get the transmission done right the first time. I sold my go kart yesterday and almost everything else i own to try and get it built and in by Jan. sense the first race is in February. The company that will be building it specializes in automatics so when I get it back it should be able to withstand over 1000+hp and will shift faster then a manual transmission. I will drop the car off at my sponsors shop and there going to pull the tranny out and send it off for me and once the company receives it they said it should be about a 3-5 day turn around period..

With the new tranny it will come with a shift box so I'm able to manually select my gear shift points at whatever RPM I want with the click of a button.

This will be an ideal setup for road racing and pushing my abilities to the furthest extent, but being that I can't take my hands off the wheel I had to redesign my hand controls to accommodate what I would like them to do. Iv been taking to a few different machine shops that say theyll be able to help me, and once there done ill be able to use the throttle, shift, brake, and turn, all while my hands are still attached to the wheel.

This is the actual shift box...

They also finally posted next years schedule for NASA so I figured I'd share it and would be more then happy to have you guys come out one day and check it out!

SCHEDULE FOR 2012

FEBRUARY 11-12 : RALPH ALEXANDER MEMORIAL TRIBUTE

Infineon Raceway | Register Online

MARCH 10-11 : HPDE / TT / RACING

Infineon Raceway | Register Online

APRIL 14-15 : HPDE / TT / RACING

Thunderhill Raceway Park | Register Online

MAY 19-20 : HPDE / TT / RACING

Thunderhill Raceway Park | Register Online

JUNE 16-17 : HPDE / TT/ RACING

Infineon Raceway | Register Online

AUGUST 18-19 : HPDE / TT / RACING

Thunderhill Raceway Park | Register Online

SEPTEMBER 29-30 : HPDE / TT RACING

Infineon Raceway | Register Online

OCTOBER 27-28 : HPDE / TT RACING

Infineon Raceway | Register Online

NOVEMBER 9-11 : HPDE / TT RACING

Infineon Raceway | Register Online

DECEMBER 1-2 : NASA 25 HOURS OF THUNDERHILL

Thunderhill Raceway Park | Register Online

Thank you guys again for reading and I hope everyone has a blessed week!

Also if you care to sponsor or donate you can email me at walkbdk777@yahoo.com or give me a call at 408-427-5175...

Here is a picture displaying how much more I need for my tranny

Thank you all again!

& Always Keep Em Spinnin!

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2013 Racing Ambissions:

Objective:

My ambitions for this season are to run the complete West Coast Northern California NASA racing series as well as a few SCCA events if possible. The NorCal NASA series will be my main focus but on the months that they don't run I would like to attend some other racing sanctions to gain the experience as well as exposure. I plan to practice at least once a month on top of the race weekends as well to increase my seat time and confidence behind the wheel. Depending on how the season unfolds I would also like to try and race the NASA Miller Motorsports Nationals.

This following 2013 season I plan to compete in the Northern California German Touring 3 Class in my 2002 BMW M3. This is a highly competitive class that will consist of a variety of high horsepower purpose built race cars such as, Porsche’s, BMW’s, Mercedes, etc. I have committed myself to a strict work out routine in order to build and maintain my strength, stamina and endurance as well as to keep my rehabilitation progressing forward. I aspire to become a top racing competitor in the auto racing industry, and hope to one day to be the first quadriplegic champion to win an able bodied professional sanctioned series.

Car & Class

The car we have chosen to build for this 2013 season is a 2002 BMW E46 M3 SMG. The M3's SMG paddle shifted transmission will give me the optimal platform to construct my custom handcontrol sett up off of. This system will allow me the ability to apply the throttle, brakes, upshift and down shift all while keeping my hands on the wheel. The car will be purpose built to race in NASA's GTS-3 class which is a power to weight ratio regulated class that only allows German or foreign cars such as BMW's, Porsche, Audi, etc... The car has to be at a race weight of a 11:1 power to weight ratio. We are still currently working we are still working out the setup details but I think once it's all done we will have a championship contending car.

Vehicle Specs:

Engine mods:

Aluminum Oilcooler

Transmission Cooler

Differential Cooler

Aluminum radiator

Racing Thermostat

Oilcooler Diverter Valve

Race Pulley Set

Bimmerworld Race Exhaust

Fuel Starvation Kit

ECU Reflash

Suspension:

D2 Pro-Spec fully adjustable coil overs

Complete suspension bushing kit

Solid Engine/Transmission/Differential Mounts

Front upper strut tower brace

Hotchkis front and rear adjustable sway bars

Subframe Reinforcement Kit

Ground Control Adjustable Lower Control Arms

Brakes:

D2 Racing 8 Piston Front, 4 Piston Rear big Brake kit

Steel braided brake lines

Vented and slotted rotors

Not sure the choice of pads I'll be running yet...

High temp racing brake fluid

Exterior:

Bimmerworld Rear Spoiler

Bimmerworld Front Splitter

Bimmerworld Rear Defuser

18"-10" VMR wheels

Carbon fiber vented hood

Sunroof Delete

Interior

Sparco FIA approved racing seat

Schroth 6 point racing harness

Fire Suppression system

Custom gauge cluster Plus other monitoring meters

Custom full NASA/SCCA spec legal roll cage

Custom hand control setup

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