La Carrera Panamericana
We at North Bay Bavarian aren’t just experts at servicing, repairing and restoring Santa Rosa’s finest BMWs. We also love to race these Bavarian performance machines. We can take any BMW, even a lemon, and turn it from a beater into a vehicle designed to beat down the competition. BMW Inspection: Pre and Post Race […]
This blog is from December 19, 2006, and was reposted to our blog in January of 2011. We at North Bay Bavarian wrote this after deciding to enter the 2007 La Carrera Panamericana, which was more than 12 years ago. Our goals for the writings were to amuse ourselves and to attract some big time sponsors […]
Tomorrow is the start of one of the worlds great road races, Mexico’s La Carrera Panamericana. It starts on the coast in Huatulco, Oaxaca and finishes seven days later in Zacatecas, Zacatecas. We wish all the participants the best of luck, and hope to be in that race again someday. But that’s not the only race […]
October 2011 October is the month that racing will get going again for the Spec E30 group at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma. I thought I’d be telling about the results from the September racing, but there wasn’t any E30 racing at either Infineon or Thunderhill. It’s also the month for the start of the La Carrera Panamericana in Mexico. One of the cars participating, a BMW 2002, was […]
To fill some time and space before the next race in September at Infinion, let us enlighten ourselves some about this years Monterey Historics. Rick and his grandson Eli went down to see what was going on and came back with a few pictures. They also went to the Carrera Fiesta which had a number of La Carrera race cars […]
With the sale of the BMW 2002 race car from the ’09 La Carrera Panamericana, we at NBB say good-bye to a little piece of history. To keep that story alive, we will continue with the blog from 2008 giving a brief background on the company and the car… Tuesday, December 23, 2008 The BMW […]
For the second time this year, racing moved to Thunderhill Raceway where the weather showed some clouds, but no rain. Saturday was the customary 1/2 hour race, with nothing unusual happening, unless your name is Bushman. Frank was disqualified for allegedly passing under a yellow flag during the warm-up laps. That put him out of Saturdays racing as best to not have further […]
It’s March of 2011 and the race season is upon us. The first were in mid February at Infineon Raceway preceded by a track day at Thunderhill Raceway called ”The Art of Racing”. The track day was put on to give the drivers of the Spec E 30, the Mazda’s and the Honda Challenge classes a chance to brush up on driving […]
With 2010 drawing to a close, I thought I would finish it up by giving you the end of the year blogs from 2006. These again, are from our story of racing in the world famous Mexican Road Race or La Carrera Panamericana. In reading these stories again, it’s amusing what a green tenderfoot I was to […]
This blog is from December 19, 2006, it’s the first narrative we wrote after deciding to enter the 2007 La Carrera Panamericana, which seems like a long time ago. Our goals for the writings were to amuse ourselves and to attract some Big Time Sponsors to help pay the entry fee and a couple of Tortas along the way. […]
Once upon another time, a couple different blogs were written about the NBB’s entrys into the La Carrera Panamericana road race in Mexico. Since the 2010 race is about to begin this week, we thought you might like to read about the shop’s “Adventures in Mexico” in 2007 and 2009. We’ll start the first story from almost two years […]
