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Old 16th January 2025, 23:31   #1
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Track experience with a Maruti-Suzuki Ignis and BMW 330i

Suzuki Ignis 1.2 at Kari


Spent an afternoon lapping the Kari speedway in the Ignis. The car is a manual transmission running on MRF race slicks with an exhaust, intake and a 7100 rev limit. The track temperatures were expectedly high and the best lap time I managed was a 1.30 flat. The track has had some layout changes since 2020 and is 2.3kms in length with a shortened main straight.

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The Ignis felt great to drive around the track. The DGR coilovers provided terrific body control for corners and direction changes and the MRF slicks, while a tad oversized at 205/50/15 gripped immensely well. The sparco sprint buckets were essential in making sure the body stayed in place while going fast and the well laid out pedals were terrific to use especially for heel toe shifts. Suzuki gearboxes have always been slick and working the gearbox was immensely pleasureable and more so as the track was tight. Braking was another area where the car excelled with the rotors and pads doing a superb job without any fade the whole afternoon.

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A breather after a pounding

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set for a few laps


F30 BMW 330i at Kari

This was another day with the bmw at Kari. The car had bilstein B12 suspensions that lowered the car by 30mm and were street spec. Otherwise the car was stock. Unfortunately, I hadn’t serviced the car and that meant we had very poor brakes right from the beginning. Another mistake I made was not having the right octane fuel. Had to run regular 91 RON pump gas from a local fuel station and that meant we were down on power too. The car managed 1.25.2. The DSC wasn't switched off fully during the runs.

I changed the michelin ps4 tires to 18 inch 235/40 mrf racing slicks and it did a 1.21.1 with regular 91 RON gas. With a proper diet of 95 RON, am sure a second could easily have been dropped. The laps were a nightmare without brakes. Would love to go and check how a well serviced car on the right fuel performs. But thankfully, I have a benchmark to now look at when I go there fully armed.

The driving also had to be adjusted accordingly in the rwd as getting too early on the power was making the car drift out. The throttle and steering usage had to be extremely smooth to keep the car in line unlike the fwd Ignis which was quite forgiving to brutal throttle and steering inputs.

As expected, had just few 100km left on both the front and rear pads by the end of the day. Had to drive gingerly to make it back home safely. Many of the bmw logos flew off during the laps and need to be procured.

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all set to go out

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Another car that was around was a terrific looking Honda Brio 1.5 with 17 inch racing slicks, sparco buckets, roll cage and uprated brakes, custom suspension and camber setup. It is one hell of a car to drive around the track and is so useable that the owner daily drives the car in Bangalore. I managed a 1.27.8 with this car but it can go a lot quicker than that. It needs a bit of time getting used to the power delivery and handling to extract a good time.

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Just to put things in perspective, autocar India had tested the Audi RSQ8 SUV here and done a scorching time of 1.13.691 with the very talented Aditya Patel at the wheel. The 600hp, 800nm behemoth has set the production SUV record for the track.

Highlight of the day

Met the septuagenarian D Vidyaprakash at the track and he had come to test his new Audi TT with some 700km on the odometer. The highlight of the day was being taken out for a spin in the TT with DVP, as he is fondly known, effortlessly throwing the TT in all directions, lighting up the tires and having a blast. Well, before I forget, he had come to test the KONI fsds that the car had. It was running regular street tires which probably melted under his driving. I have never met someone who is seventy eight and who can drive like that. That was truly the highlight of the day for me. His reflexes are in superlative shape perhaps due to all the sharpening he subjects it to on track.

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Does the Ignis also use a stiffer rear sway bar? My impression is that the Suzukis don’t have a mounting point for an after market rear sway bar so wondering how people deal with that.
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Suzuki Ignis 1.2 at Kari

Spent an afternoon lapping the Kari speedway in the Ignis. The car is a manual transmission running on MRF race slicks with an exhaust, intake and a 7100 rev limit. The track temperatures were expectedly high and the best lap time I managed was a 1.30 flat.
Awesome stuff, @megazoid! The Ignis in that modded avatar looks fantastic, and reading the way you described it, I could only imagine how much fun this would have been.

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Would love to go and check how a well serviced car on the right fuel performs.
If possible, I would love to join you next time you drive there. Not to drive on the tracks, but to photograph your 330i with racing slicks on the track :-) I am getting goosebumps just by imagining a panning photograph of the lowered 330i with racing slicks taking a high speed corner, against the motion blurred background. Would love to attempt such shots while you drive your mean car on the track and burn away the tyres and the brakes!

Great going @megazoid, and thanks for sharing these reports!
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Old 22nd January 2025, 19:45   #5
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That's great! The thought of an Ignis on a race track genuinely never crossed my mind, but I think us enthusiasts can make stuff happen! Props to that Brio and its owner for all they've done with it.

Also could you share details on how the booking process was for the track? Do they offer something like 'arrive and drive' or is it a must to make a full track booking?

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Does the Ignis also use a stiffer rear sway bar?
No. A rear strut brace is possible

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If possible, I would love to join you next time you drive there. Not to drive on the tracks, but to photograph your 330i with racing slicks on the track :-) I am getting goosebumps just by imagining a panning photograph of the lowered 330i with racing slicks taking a high speed corner, against the motion blurred background. Would love to attempt such shots while you drive your mean car on the track and burn away the tyres and the brakes!
hahaha. There goes the photographer in you. Sure. We could have a track day and you can do both driving and photography as much as you want.

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Do they offer something like 'arrive and drive' or is it a must to make a full track booking?
There is no arrive and drive as such unless they advertise it that way. There are pay and practice sessions that come up at MMRT for both bikes and cars. Kari also plans to have pay and practice sessions this year. Booking the track is possible when dates are available and is the current way of using the track. They have some plans to make things easy for enthusiasts soon.
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While you drive and AD clicks, I'll simply want to watch.

Loved this megazoid. Very recently, my son was testing an electric bike here as part of a college completion and that track was very inviting. Would love to go back.

Confession - I don't like an Ignis but yours looks good, perhaps there extra wide tyres giving it that look.
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Very recently, my son was testing an electric bike here as part of a college completion and that track was very inviting. Would love to go back.

Confession - I don't like an Ignis but yours looks good, perhaps there extra wide tyres giving it that look.
I quite understand. It has polarizing looks. Drive it once and you will begin to like the little car in the manual trim. We have to catch up soon. Lots pending by way of drives.
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How much BHP did the Adidas logo on the C-pillar add?

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Braking was another area where the car excelled with the rotors and pads doing a superb job without any fade the whole afternoon.
Thanks for the write-up megazoid. Could you shed more light on the braking part? Are they factory brakes or have they been upgraded? Please share more if so. My drives with my Ignis are mostly spirited but braking is the part I'm least confident about. Haven't been able to figure out a better solution yet.
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How much BHP did the Adidas logo on the C-pillar add?

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Was aerodynamic for that reason

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Are they factory brakes or have they been upgraded? Please share more if so. My drives with my Ignis are mostly spirited but braking is the part I'm least confident about.
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These are running slotted rotors and mintex pads. Braking was superb.

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The DGR coilovers provided terrific body control for corners and direction changes and the MRF slicks, while a tad oversized at 205/50/15 gripped immensely well. The sparco sprint buckets were essential in making sure the body stayed in place while going fast
Hello Megazoid, thanks for the unique post. Can you please let me know where I can fit similar DGR coilovers and sparco sprint buckets to my ignis? The bodyroll on my car is very concerning while taking turns in high speed.

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Can you please let me know where I can fit similar DGR coilovers and sparco sprint buckets to my ignis? The bodyroll on my car is very concerning while taking turns in high speed.
Amracing for DGR coilers. It's not a street comfortable setup. You should perhaps look at something more comfortable for daily use. The seats are money well spent on any car. This was procured by Race concepts Bangalore.
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Amazing thread. Thank you for posting. Never imagined I will see Ignis and Brio in a racing track thread
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