Bobzilla wrote:dropstep wrote: Roadkill is apparently doing one lap this year, im guessing you wont break down as often as them!I'm dying to see what they bring.
Gen 1 Firebird Trans Am, white.
I gathered that from a video on OLOAs Facebook page where they walked through the parking lot. The FB page also says that will have some live coverage starting Sat morning at 8 am.
mazdeuce wrote: My co-driver did a 900 mile day yesterday...That's 200 miles longer than our longest transit will be.
Wow, I should have found someone needing a transit driver...I do that many miles each way every 4-6 weeks.
man, I'd never heard of this thing 2 months ago and now I'm plotting how I can do it.
John Welsh wrote:Bobzilla wrote:Gen 1 Firebird Trans Am, white. I gathered that from a video on OLOAs Facebook page where they walked through the parking lot. The FB page also says that will have some live coverage starting Sat morning at 8 am.dropstep wrote: Roadkill is apparently doing one lap this year, im guessing you wont break down as often as them!I'm dying to see what they bring.
David Freiburger and Elana Scherr are in a factory Dodge something. Tony Angelo and Mike Finnegan are in a '69 Firebird that Finn bought last week and they slammed together in 3 days or something. At least the timeline is normal roadkill, because the pics of the Firebird look way too nice for their usual stuff!
We have begun!
Wet skid pad is done (not me in the picture obviously) and we're on our way to the autocross. I'm driving both events today so that I can get used to the car on pavement before we start driving big tracks. I've never driven it in anger on anything but dirt and I'm hoping to avoid that this week. The car has a big rear bar and is quite tail happy around the wet skid pad. Something to keep in mind for wet track sessions.
That's a liiiittle wider than the 911's you usually see with a roof box.
grover wrote: man, I'd never heard of this thing 2 months ago and now I'm plotting how I can do it.
You really should. At least once. It's such a great event. Wonderful people, racetracks, cars, everything good in life.
2017 Focus RS winner of skid pad.
Three Chevy HHR in the field. Is this some kind of dark horse performance car?
HHR SS = 260 hp (stock) turbo ecotech combined with room for gear and a third driver reducing overall fatigue.
Evo IX ftd.
Andy Hollis #2
In reply to John Welsh :
iirc 500hp is possible on the stock turbo block for the hhr.
The HHRs are run by the Dublers. They own a Swiss chocolate factory. The story (as I've heard it) is that the cars sit in a warehouse all year, they shut down the chocolate factory for two weeks, come over for One Lap, and give us all a box of chocolates. The box of chocolates part is true. They're delicious.
Still getting a handle on the Civic. We had three autocross runs and decided to each do one, and whoever was faster got the third. Not the best way to get a good time, but we had fun. I made fewer gross mistakes so I got run number 3, which was cool. I didn't exactly finish well, 54th, which matched my skidpad finish from the morning.
The car is interesting. It has nice power, a light flywheel means the revs build instantly. The suspension is stock 110k mile Honda with about 40 rallycrosses on it. And not 40 runs, 40 events, so in excess of 500 rallycross runs. There are some interesting pitch and roll characteristics. Nothing bad, nothing dangerous, but I do need to adapt. Having a blast. Identifying our competition at the back and trying to stay off the absolute bottom of the time sheets. Tomorrow is a Mempis which will be two road course sessions and a drag race which will be fun. If we don't have the lowest power of the whole field, it's not for lack of trying.
Huge shout out to the SCCA guys who ran the autocross today. They set up a spectacular course for us and got us all through and on our way very quickly. Someone needs to buy them a round.
Dusterbd13 wrote: I got approved for time off to come to cmp. Ill be the guy in the 64 el camino trying to find tbe legendary and awe inspiring mazdeuce.
I hope to be there as well. If I make it I'll be sure to wear a GRM t-shirt and I'll probably be in a red FR-S but I might take the "eventually mighty" E36 non-M3. 
This is the only night we're not at the official
One Lap hotel. I picked one nearby that looked reasonable and had free breakfast. When my wife picks hotels they have things like lemon Shea butter body wash. When I pick hotels they have soap. 
Heh, we're across the street with The Dude
In reply to mazdeuce:
You know, this isn't our first time doing for OLoA. ;) I think the final numbers were right around 200 runs in a little over 2 and a half hours without a single rerun. Pretty amazing. We got a good crew here in Indy.
I caught Brian in paddock yesterday morning. that was about the extent of my interactions yesterday.
mazdeuce wrote: This is the only night we're not at the official One Lap hotel. I picked one nearby that looked reasonable and had free breakfast. When my wife picks hotels they have things like lemon Shea butter body wash. When I pick hotels they have soap.
You know what Mike Birbiglia says, "until you get the ejaculate out of the curtains you should just call it soap".
This trip looks so awesome
I'm not saying anything necessarily, but we show up in a Honda and check air pressures. The Toyota team shows up and both cars spend an hour in the air. 
In reply to mazdeuce:
That's a really nice Avalon.
We're in Memphis!
The morning session has started and my co-driver is about to get in line. Beautiful day.
Road course sessions are done in Memphis. Turns out I'm about as slow as you'd expect for someone who hasn't been on track in a year, but God damn is it fun. The Civic is just alive and wants to be driven as hard as you can drive it. I'm looking forward to figuring things out even more.
Nothing like taking the Civic drag racing against cars that are in danger of being kicked off the track for going sub 11.5. We got something like a 16.8 with a ton of wheel hop in the low ET portion of the event and decided to just throw a 17.0 on the car figuring reaction time would fill in the rest. Instead my co-driver figured it out and went 15.3. Oops. Off to Atlanta.
4:00 pm out of Memphis. Isn't Road Atlanta like 7 hours away?
In about Midnight?
Six hours to the hotel. Leaving at 4:00 eastern we should be there by 10:30. Two stops, eating in the car. We're efficient. We're trying to get sleep while we can. A couple of tough nights coming up.
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