Racing Lines: From O’Fest 2010 to O’Fast 2025: BMW CCA Club Racing prepares for a weekend at Road America

The October 2025 O’Fast event at Road America is promising to be exciting and competitive, with multiple sprint races and an enduro scheduled—with the expected participation of many national title contenders in multiple classes. At deadline time, 39 racers are enrolled. The list is likely to grow as the event date approaches.

In 2010, when BMW CCA Club Racing ran its O’Fest races at Road America, the pack was about the same size, with 40 racers on hand for two sprints and an enduro, spread across three days. Canada’s Peter Carroll, the two-time defending C-Modified national champion at the time, won the Friday sprint in his E36 M3; he was followed across the line by Florida’s Randy Mueller in his C-Mod E46 M3.

Peter Carroll won the first race at O’Fest 2010 [Brian Morgan photo]

Mueller had missed qualifying for the Friday race because of an out-of-town meeting. He started from the back of the pack, moved up to second overall after six laps, and set the fastest lap time—but he could not catch Carroll. Rounding out the podium behind Carroll and Mueller was Steve Bassen in his C-Mod E30 M3, the same car that Sri Haputantri runs in the Tire Rack series today.

Steve Bassen and James Clay ran Bassen’s E30 M3 at Road America. Sri Haputantri races it in 2025 [Brian Morgan photo]

Mueller would go on to win both the Saturday enduro and the Sunday sprint. On Saturday, Carroll and Robert Chang (another C-Mod E46 M3) finished behind him. On Sunday, Mueller won the final sprint, this time with James Clay finishing second in Bassen’s car and Carroll finishing third.

Mueller would go on to win the C-Mod national title in 2010; Carroll would regain it in 2011, and Mueller would win it again in 2012. The late Bud Merrill, who would later be memorialized with the series’ Bud Merrill Spirit of Club Racing award, shared competition stewarding chores with the late Dean Croucher and Clement Schmitt; Bruce Smith, Dick Cadieux, and Patrick Spikes served as tech stewards; and Larry Fletcher and Roland Nieves served as timing-and-scoring stewards.

No doubt the coming October races will have a major impact on multiple national champion chases in 2025.—Brian Morgan, Roundel motorsports editor.

Lead photo of Randy Mueller leading the pack at Road America in 2010 by Brian Morgan.