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Old 03-22-2010, 01:33 PM   #1
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$500 E30 + WRC =???? 3rd place


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Bill Caswell, an unemployed Chicago racing freak, entered the Mexico round of the World Rally Championship in a 1991 BMW 318i that he found on Craigslist. The car cost $500. One year ago, Caswell decided that he wanted to go rallying with Rally America. Two months later, he crashed a car and blew up an engine five minutes into his first event. Four events later, he found a loophole in the FIA rules that let him enter a twenty-year-old car in the same event as guys like Ken Block and former F1 driver Kimi Raikkonen.
How A $500 Craigslist Car Beat $400K Rally Racers - Rallying - Jalopnik

Now THIS, is awesome.
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Old 03-22-2010, 01:58 PM   #2
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Awesome... I read the whole thing, but no mention of the "loop hole" in the fia rules.
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Old 03-22-2010, 02:03 PM   #3
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Absolutely incredible.
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Very bad ass.

Reminds me of that Top Gear episode where they bought a stock BMW and tried to do the 24 hour race.
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Awesomeness! I love it! Great read.
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Read this earlier. It was awesome.
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Old 03-22-2010, 03:30 PM   #7
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Very bad ass.

Reminds me of that Top Gear episode where they bought a stock BMW and tried to do the 24 hour race.
then they found out it runs diesel LOL
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Awesome! What class was he running in?
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wow...that is an awesome story!!
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After more research i've gathered he wasn't actually competing in a WRC class, part of the Rally America series instead, which ran alongside WRC in the Mexico event. Still an awesome story though. More pics I found from SnoDrift in MI


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Old 03-22-2010, 04:58 PM   #13
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And story from the co-driver of the E30.

Pirating WRC Corona Rally Mexico Rally America | World Rally Sport
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interesting.. as cool as it may be, hope the WRC doesnt turn into a bunch of ratty shit looking cars tho lol

I wonder how much of this story is "glorified"
people been rally racing E30s for decades, this one is just standing out because it was ran same week as a wrc event so people tie it in.
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Old 03-22-2010, 06:05 PM   #15
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I hate stories like this (not really) because they make me overconfident.

The owner of this E30 is obviously a deity among men when it comes to mechanical aptitude, with his ability to quickly diagnose/fix just about anything on the fly with minimal tools, build a competitive car from nothing, etc.

Stories like this are like "Courage Wolf" for wrenching. They make me think "Hell, this guy can run against Team Citroen in a beater he's patching with RTV and tape, so I can totally get that MX73 trans swap done out in my garage". It momentarily relieves me of the reality that I'm a total fucking boob, a reality that will promptly re-assert itself when I drop a transmission onto my chest by accident and end up in the ER.

But yeah, this guy's a rockstar. Go him.
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Old 03-22-2010, 08:30 PM   #16
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Haha this story is so cool. Even if he didn't compete against WRC cars, I'm pretty sure his competition was old WRC cars and well built sponsored rally cars. So to finish third in some janky BMW is still awesome.
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After more research i've gathered he wasn't actually competing in a WRC class, part of the Rally America series instead, which ran alongside WRC in the Mexico event. Still an awesome story though. More pics I found from SnoDrift in MI
Ahh, I understand now. So the loophole is that he could run in the Mexico event and get points for Rally America which he needed since he missed out on some races due to the crash. Is that right? Still Awesome!
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Rally America had a deal w/ the Mexican national rally series organizers to allow entrants from the RA series to run in their series alongside the WRC event. Bill was put in the open class running against newer FIA spec Mitsubishi evo's and Peugeot 206's because the car had an s14 (e30 m3) motor swap.

We are sponsoring the Jalopnik $500 Craigslist Rally Car T-shirt Design Contest to get Bill Caswell back into his rally car for the rest of the Rally America season. Winner will receive an xbox360 and a copy of forza 3 from us. The XBox will be wrapped in the winning T-shirt design using a special adhesive vinyl as well.

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