Wednesday, March 19, 2014

Jimbob Racing is very pleased to announce that Engle Printing and Publishing Company Inc. has  re-signed and will be our major hood sponsor for the 2014 One Lap of America.  Engle Printing and Publishing Company not only publishes the well known Merchandiser but also 18 other weekly community newspapers highlighting the positive news in the local areas.  In addition they have many other publications such as Auto-Locator, Lancaster County Magazine, Antiques & Auction Newsand others.  For more information see their web site at http://www.engleonline.com

 A huge milestone, EPC is celebrating their 60th Anniversary in business in 2014.  The a company their leadership and their employees are a great community asset with their support of many charities and endeavors in the local areas.

We have several other sponsors that help pull this all together which include The Mount Joy Diner, Auto-Locator, Top of The Line Roofing, KrunchKritters Body and Spray Shop, Mick's All American Pub, Jim's Tire Service, SSC Tint & Graphics JimRoberts' West Main Auto and the Lancaster County Corvette Club.  I would like to sincerely thank all of my sponsors for their contributions.














Thursday, March 13, 2014

Jimbob Racing Raising Funds for Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition


Jim is shown presenting the 2013 event picture to Kristen Snoke
the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition Community Outreach Director.















Jim Roberts of Mount Joy along with Steve Barrett of Fairfield Ohio, will compete in the 2014 One Lap of America. A major part in this effort will be raising money for the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition. Stickers with the Pink Breast Cancer ribbon will be placed on the car for each donation of $10 or more, and can be “In Honor of”, “In Memory of”, or you can put your own name on to show your support of the Breast Cancer Coalition.


This will be Jim’s 6th One Lap of America and he has raised several thousand dollars for the Breast Cancer Coalition as part of the effort. Make a donation and you can ride along “vicariously” on the trip and help a great cause.  The Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition, celebrating its 21st Anniversary in 2014, represents supports and serves breast cancer survivors and their families in Pennsylvania through educational programming, legislative advocacy and breast cancer research grants. The PBCC is a statewide non-profit organization that creates the hope of a brighter tomorrow by providing action and information to women with breast cancer today.


To make a donation and get a sticker on the car, stop in at the store or send to Jim Roberts, % West Main Auto, 14 W. Main St. Mount Joy, Pa. 17552 along with who to name on the sticker. Please make all checks payable to Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition or PBCC for short.  If anyone who is sympathetic to the breast cancer cause and would like to be a "Captain" to help collect funds from friends co-workers etc, I can provide you with donation sheets.  Please email me at jimbobcorv@comcast.net 


The Cannonball One Lap of America is an endurance race that will challenge the preparation and endurance of both man and machine. It is an offshoot of the original “Cannonball Sea to Shinning Sea Memorial Trophy Dash” created by Brock Yates in the early 1970’s. In 1984 Brock reworked the format to make it more acceptable to the general public and law enforcement, and continued to change the format until in 1992 it evolved into what it is today, where all the competition takes place on the tracks.


Each year One Lap goes off in a different direction to another part of the country. This year Jim will travel nearly 5,000 miles in a little over a week covering much of the Eastern United States. The first leg of the trip will be going from Lancaster County Pa. to South Bend Indiana, the starting spot for One Lap, and the first event, a wet skid pad competition.  The second event will be at Grissom Air Force Base also in Indiana, then it's south to Memphis, Tennessee to New Orleans then on to Mobile, Alabama followed by Atlanta then up to Spartanburg South Carolina.  After South Carolina it's north to New Jersey Motorsports Park, west to Mid Ohio then to Gingerman in Michigan and back to South Bend. They will compete in about 20 events including 2 skid pad competitions, a large autocross on the runways at Grissom Air Force Base, two drag strip events and the rest will be road course time trials. At each track Jim will do Time Trial events and accumulate points against competing cars in both class and overall standings. Jim will do all the competitive driving and will share the driving over the highways with his transit driver Steve Barrett. Typically there will be about 75 entries from professional racers to amateur track guys, but all must have racing credentials or at least high performance driver school experience. The car they are using is Jim’s Yellow 2000 Corvette Coupe which has been modified to add a little extra horsepower and has several performance and suspension upgrades.




Monday, March 10, 2014

Getting Ready for One Lap of America 2014


It's that time of the year again when I start posting about our One Lap of America effort.  It will be May before we know it and we still have some work to do on the car.  A couple of pieces of information to share is that Steve Barrett from the Cincinnati Ohio area will be my Transit Driver again this year.  Steve was my Transit Driver in 2012 and I found him through my fellow One Lap buddies from Cincinnati who knew that I was in need of a partner for the trip.  Steve is a Corvette enthusiast and is also a Corvette restorer so he is knowledgeable on a lot of the mechanical parts on the car.  Even though we did't meet until the day before the event started we made friends quickly which is good since you are shoulder to shoulder in a Corvette for a week and 3500 miles. Steve was a great asset to the team in sharing the highway miles and helping to maintain the car.

The route has been posted and I have included a map.  This years event will again concentrate on the eastern half of the United States and will take us a far south and west as New Orleans and to some tracks I haven't been to including Memphis International Raceway road course, Memphis International Raceway Drag Strip, Mobile International Speedway oval, Atlanta Motorsports Park, and GingerMan Raceway in Michigan. We will visit several other tracks and the closest we will be to home is when we do the Thunderbolt course at New Jersey Motorsports Park at Millville NJ.

I did have a chance on Friday to take the Corvette to the track down at Summit Point just to give it a shakedown run to make sure everything felt right.  I wanted to get a picture but din't think of it until the car was loaded back on the trailer.  BTW, on One Lap you cannot trailer the car at all once the event begins, although some do trailer their cars to the start point at South Bend, Indiana.

Stay tuned for more updates.