Team SavSpeed Racing unveils a winner
Local BMW race prep and tuning experts Team SavSpeed Racing revealed their new BMW F30 wide-body racer at the Kyalami Grand Prix circuit recently – and then unleashed it in full anger last week at one of the BMW Car Club Gauteng’s track-and-race days at Zwartkops, where it won both its heats.
This was the first full shakedown of the car in a proper race and there was no better place to do it than at a race series the car was built to compete in.
This menacing-looking race car features a Team SavSpeed Racing-fettled turbocharged 3.0 litre BMW straight six powerplant producing over 800hp. It put the F30 wide body at the top of the timesheets. This demonstrates in no uncertain terms the car has the go to match the show.
The car was modified and built by owner-driver Sav Gualtieri, a BMW technician with more than 25 years’ ex- perience, and his team at their workshop in Edenvale. The team has turbocharged more than 200 vehicles and modified even more over the past two decades, both for street and track applications. This has secured the team many championships and the odd South African speed record in both street and track disciplines over the years.
The original plan was to enter the car in the G&H Transport Extreme Supercars Series this weekend, as well as run it at BMW CCG Club Racing Series on November 29. But it would seem politics has again got in the way of good racing, with the car being excluded by the Extreme Festival people under the guise that it does not conform to their rules – it is too fast for its class.
But series organisers have, over the course of the series, allowed other cars that were quicker than the allocated break-out times to compete ...
See the car in all its unrestricted glory at Zwartkops on November 29.