Barber Motorsports Park in probably the Augusta of race tracks. It is groomed much like a golf course. Lots of sculpture on the grounds like misquitos, motorcycles, a spider, etc etc. Even under the tree groves in the infield they are groomed with mulch. You can see where cars gouged the grass and it was replaced with sod. If you hit a guard rail it will cost you about $1800, tear up the grass by sliding off and it will cost you. It is real nice and they want to keep it that way.
The track was fast and lots of elevation changes and blind corners, a real challenging course that you can't master without a lot of practice. I am running at the end since I am in a different car from what we started in, but I had a real nice run and caught the car in front of me about half way through the third lap.
Our transit drive was a long one. We went from Birmingham, Alabama to Joliet, Ill. just a little southwest of Chicago. The trip was 688 miles, with a drive time of about 10 hours. Tomorrow we will do both the North course and the South course at Autobahn Country Club Raceway outside of Chicago another top notch facility. After Autobahn we have one of the shortest legs of the trip over to South Bend, Indiana for a dry skid pad competition on Saturday.
We have had quite a bit of attrition this week, with me being one of the first. I think we are down about 15 cars from when we started out. Today the blue Viper hit a wall and damaged the right front as well as the oil cooler. The plan was to take the oil cooler out of play and to re-plumb the oil lines and to continue the trip. We are the only team to continue with a replacement vehicle running exibition.
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