Again this year one of the great numbers is that we raised $3681 this year for the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition. This was our best year ever in fundraising. Over the years we are very proud to have now raised over $19,000 dollars for the cause. This year there were 68 entries in One Lap of America, nine cars were out as of the last event, the Dry Skid Pad competition. There were a few that dropped out with mechanical problems but got them resolved and rejoined the group. The listed mileage of the event was 3459 but including the track miles, the miles to and from South Bend (the start and finish) and maybe a wrong turn or two, we logged 4919 miles. Our best calculation is 4719 on the road and about 200 on the tracks. 
We spent $819 on gas, $882 on hotels and $132 on tolls. The highest price for high test gas was $5.50 a gallon at the track pumps at Sebring, and $3.349 in Ocala, Florida. We had two nights with transits over 700 miles. The overall mpg (miles per gallon) was 17.6, and we figured about 19.0 on the road and about 6.3 on the track. After my first run on Sebring my gas gauge seemed wrong so I filled up and calculated 4.6 miles per gallon on that track. On Sebring you are wide open throttle quite a bit. The man at the track gas pump said it is pretty common to use about a gallon per 3.7 mile lap. 
One miscellaneous expense was $103 for a new trailer tire/wheel and a trailer taillight which the flailing tire took out along with the trailer license plate. BTW we put on 4331 miles on with no license plate on our trailer;^) It is probably still somewhere along the Indiana turnpike maybe 15 miles east of South Bend.
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