The last event of the week is at South Bend, Indiana. This morning we competed in the Dry Skid Pad competition and finished 23rd. This gives us an overall finish of 26th for this years event. Last year we finished 15th and felt we might be able to improve slightly on that effort. This year when we arrived and saw a lot more awesome cars it looked like it was going to be a little tougher and it was said by one competitor that it seems like "twice as many top ten teams showed up this year".
After our DNF at Road America and dropping to 39th place, my goal changed to a 25th place finish. We got close and finished in 26th, not quite a win but a great experience and with many new friends made. With our exploding pulley problem on Saturday it really looked like a possibility of losing a day or two to get things fixed. As I mentioned in a previous post, without Joel Huibregtse's help we might have been stranded over the weekend and lost several events until getting the car fixed during normal shop business hours on Monday and still the problem of finding the right parts to make the repair. Joel is a Corvette Restoration Specialist with CSI Performance in Sheboygan Falls, Wisconsin and they were closed for the day since One Lap of America was at the local track, Road America. Fortunately for us, Joel was standing near Danny Popps car when I went looking for other Corvette guys who might have any spare parts that might help us out. While standing waiting for Danny to come out from under his car Joel made some comment that made me ask him if he was local and a mechanic. Many, Many thanks to Joel for his helpfulness and friendliness in our time of need. For more details on the Road America events scroll down to the Road America entry.
Only 600 miles back to Lancaster County and we can call this adventure completed.
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