The last 10 days were probably the longest I've gone without posting on BM. I was on the road doing the One Lap of America race/rally/endurance event. Although I brought my computer, the regime was too tight to ever find time to do any web browsing.

In 8 days we covered 4000 road transit miles, we raced 12 different races on sanctioned tracks (some were two in a day) and we competed at 12 different race tracks around the country.

The average sleep per night was about 4 hours, and that was if you didn't have mechanicals slow you down. We began in South Bend, Indiana at the Tire Rack skid pad (wet) and ended there on the following week (dry). In the middle we raced the little Porsche here:

04/30/2011 08:00 Tire Rack - Wet Skid Pad Indiana
04/30/2011 13:00 Grissom Air Force Base - WV
05/01/2011 08:30 Summit Point Raceway - Summit Point SC
05/01/2011 12:30 Summit Point Raceway - Summit Point SC
05/02/2011 08:30 Carolina Motorsports Park - National Standard Track SC
05/02/2011 12:30 Carolina Motorsports Park - National Standard Track SC
05/02/2011 17:00 BMW Performance Center - SC
05/03/2011 08:30 Daytona International Speedway - Road Course Fl
05/03/2011 13:00 Daytona International Speedway - Road Course Fl
05/03/2011 17:30 Gainesville Raceway - FL
05/03/2011 19:00 Gainesville Raceway - Fl
05/04/2011 08:30 Circuit Grand Bayou - Road Course LA
05/04/2011 13:00 Circuit Grand Bayou - Road Course LA
05/05/2011 08:30 Barber Motorsports Park - AL
05/05/2011 12:30 Barber Motorsports Park - AL
05/06/2011 08:30 Autobahn Country Club - North Track Illinois
05/06/2011 12:30 Autobahn Country Club - South Track Illinois
05/07/2011 09:00 Tire Rack - Dry Skid Pad
Indy

Completing a One Lap makes me an official Lap Dog, during the event I was a lowly Lap Puppy.

Some of the interesting characters of the 75 teams we were with for the week, the grandson of the Red Baron, Jack Roush Jr, Leah Keen, Brock Yates Jr and Sr., three teams from Switzerland (Dubler Chocolate)and a large number of profession race car drivers from around the world.

Our car came in forth of six in class and 62nd overall. Not bad for a normally aspirated 31 year old car driven by two amateurs. I will definitely be doing this event again and plan to build a more competitive car.

Me with Brock Yates Jr. who now runs the event.

Racing the high banks of Daytona...

Me and the Baron...

Me and the guy that started it all, Brock Yates!

Jack Roush Jr. at Autobahn

650HP Nissan GTR doing 4 wheel burnouts

I'm a Lapdog now!

Very cool Corey!

Wow, cool. And you could almost qualify as a truck driver with all those miles! Now you got our Jaguar jealous, she would like to stretch her V12 legs sometimes!

I don't think I got a picture of it, but there was a late model Jag in the event. The R something high-po version.

XJR maybe?

So, if I interpret this correctly, you've been screwing off for over a week?

Rusty, you hit the nail on the head!

I've actually been screwing off for about 8 months, but this brought the art form to a new high

Unfortunately, Monday I start my new job

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In 8 days we covered 4000 road transit miles, we raced 12 different races on sanctioned tracks (some were two in a day) and we competed at 12 different race tracks around the country.

Yeah, way cool!
I am green (not like the Hulk) with envy.

My co driver's GPS says we covered a total of 5600 miles which includes transits, track time, to and from restaurants and hotels as well as driving the car to and from the start in South Bend. Should make my next RV trip seem like a cake walk!