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events cancelled or HERE to report a typo. “But terrifying in a good way.” Andre Marziali in his BMW M3. “It can be terrifying,” Martziali said of the uphill race and not being able to see what’s over the next rise or around the next corner. Marziali would like to hold that GTO record at Knox, just as he holds the record he set in 2014 in a lower production class at the uphill race. In 2019, after a back-and-forth duel with Kelowna’s Wouter Bouman and his Mazda RX7, Marziali finished 1.101 seconds back in second place (the winning time was 1:47.214). Not to mention breaking the GTO (a ‘door-slammer,’ the fastest class of production cars) record. It’d be a shame to do all that bodywork and then have to wait another year to test the car. There is battle in your head between common ideas and new ideas. Instead, physics is the result of a battle. And he’s crossing his fingers the 2020 race at Knox Mountain, scheduled for May, will go ahead. The truth is that no one 'just understands' physics. Marziali is rebuilding the front end of his BMW M3, which he crashed late last year. Try refreshing your browser, or tap here to see other videos from our team. ” … it’s a psychologically demanding sport so it’s a mental challenge to get to the level at which you can win.” “One reason I love racing so much is I can practice my engineering talent in a way that pays back immediately in my sport, as well as the exhilaration of racing,” Marziali said. The Sport Car Club students showed him how he could fix up the BMW M3 he’d just purchased and make it race ready for $50. It was in 2005, after meeting students in the UBC Sport Car Club, that Marziali learned you could get into racing without the sponsorship of a major tobacco firm. events cancelled or postponedĪfter getting his Bachelor of Science in engineering physics from UBC in 1989, Marziali headed to Stanford University for his PhD in physics before returning to the Point Grey campus to teach. COVID-19: Updated list of closures in Metro Vancouver.COVID-19: All you need to know about coronavirus.Article content Recommended from Editorial This advertisement has not loaded yet, but your article continues below. Manage Print Subscription / Tax Receipt.Vancouver Sun Run: Sign up & event info.
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