If it's Wednesday it must be Circuit Grand Bayou

Today we ran at Circuit Grand Bayou Raceway about 60 miles west of New Orleans. This track is a 1.8 mile 14 turn road course with no elevation change at all, totally flat. It was a fun track and I was able to make a nice run but because of the car change I will get no points for the run. Sometimes it is really nice to know where you are going even if you have a GPS. We got way back in the boonies and the GPS took us back a gravel road. About a half mile back it announced we were there. There was no track in sight. We had to get back out to the main road to ask someone local and got pointed in the right direction. The white Challenger followed us down the same road and with their GPS they got the same wrong directions. I heard a couple of others had the same problem.

Some of the most exciting driving was on the highway. By One Lap standards it was a short 429 mile run and we got in at an early 7:30 and went out to eat with Scott and Nick. The excitement on the highway was a deer that decided to make a run for it across the highway. Some heads up threshold braking and I missed broadsiding the deer by inches.

Tomorrow we will run at the world famous Barber Motorsports Park outside of Birmingham, Alabama. They call it a 15 turn track but it really works out to 21 turns when you count the extra turns that they letter instead, such as 5, 5a, 5b, 5c,etc. This track is used by the Rolex series, American Lemans, and the Indy Car series as well as many others. It has about 80 feet of elevation changes and blind turns and is a beautiful park like setting on 740 acres.

Scott continues to work towards a top 10 finish this year. This mornings run was not quite what he wanted but in the afternoon run he improved by several positions and is now in 12th position
overall. The week is winding down and we still have two events tomorrow then two at Autobahn Country Club Raceway outside of Chicago, then we finish up with the Dry Skid Pad competition (as long as it does not rain) at the Tire Rack facility in South Bend, Indiana on Saturday.