WestCoast Racing etablerades i mitten av 90-talet och är ett av Sveriges mest meriterade racingteam. Det grundades av Dick Jönsson Wigroth från Halmstad.
Teamet har snabbt blivit ett av Sveriges främsta inom svensk standardbilsracing. I samarbete med BMW som BMW Dealer Team är WestCoast Racing idag ett av de mest framgångsrika BMW-teamen.
Förare under 2009 års säsong är regerande STCC-mästaren Richard Göransson. I andra bilen hittar vi Robin Rudholm, som gör sin fjärde säsong för teamet.
På denna kanal kommer vi att publicera 2009 års filmer.
Just wow! Great production. I wish some one would make a video going over all the regulations for building a GT3 car. Whats allowed, whats not. Incredible build guys. If you guys could do another one talking over each point that would be amazing as well.
how much does it cost to race? got a million dollars to burn? there is an old saying that if you want to turn a large fortune into a small one, go racing.
Interesting thing about z4s. First gen z4 was a roadster with a folding cloth roof. Later bmw came out with a hardtop coupe version. Second gen z4 street cars all had folding metal roofs. The racing version of 2nd gen z4 had a permanent metal roof welded on.
This is what you get when you order a GT3 spec Z4 from the "Car in White" program. Some assembly required. :) If you have the team and the time it's usually cheaper to build it yourself than have the factory assemble it for you.
guys, question: wouldn't machine or robotic assembly be more precise than human assembly? why do they use human resources when they can use machine to conduct mass production? or this is just a designing process?
Jeffrey Liu for all their speed and precision no machine can replace the human eye or human judgement. thats why even with lasers for quality control, car companies still use human beings to quality check cars on an assembly line.
Cost. Production cars are built on assembly lines where the production robots are designed to repeat the same thing over and over 100's of times a day for years. They make hundreds of thousands of production vehicles so the cost of designing these robots becomes negligible when spread over so many cars. The Z4 GT3 and other similar race cars like it are limited production so designing production robots to build them is cost restrictive. As an example lets say it costs 2 million to design a production line (this is low estimate btw) for a new car - they produce 2 million cars on that production line and the cost is $1/car. Now lets saw we produce only 20 Z4 GT3's on this 2 million dollar production line - the cost now is $100,000 per car just to design the production robots for it. The factory (BMW) will sell you a complete car but it is much more expensive than just buying the pieces and having your race team put it together...
