We Made it Home Safely

 Joe and I made it home safely.  After competing in the Dry Skid Pad challenge on Saturday morning and then having lunch at the banquet, it was time to head for home.  Just a transit of 618 miles and about 10 hours back to Mount Joy, Pennsylvania.  This transit was just about average for the daily transit runs this week, but this year I had a co-driver for the drive home since Joe lives in Lancaster, but it's good to be home again after being gone 9 days, and to be home in time for Mother's Day.  It was quite an event and counting the trip from home then back home again, we put on 5041 miles in 8 days. of driving. 

Lots of stickers on the car but the ones on the roof are from everyone who donated to my effort to the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition Stickers for our fundraising effort. Over the years we have now raised over $50,000 for the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition.

 Here is our "Thanks to our Sponsors" picture for 2023.  I am on the right and Gary "Duck" Drake, my Transit Driver is on the left.  We will be using my new Orange 2023 Corvette this year.  In addition to the Sponsors, I would like to thank Kurt Steidle for completing this picture for me.  Thanks to Whitmoyer Auto Group, Engle Printing (Where and When Magazine), Top of the Line Roofing, Krunch Kritters Body Shop, Two Cousins Pizza & Italian Restaurant, Lancaster County Corvette Club and Dan Butz Cornwell Tool Truck.

I am getting ready for this years event in which we will compete in early May.  The event will be about 3700 miles.  With the miles to South Bend and back home, the total will be almost 5,000 miles in about 8 days.

Joe Yacobenas will be my Transit Driver this year, helping with the highway miles, and I will do all the competition driving.  Joe is my Crew Chief when I'm racing with SCCA and this will be a new adventure for him. This will be my 15h One Lap and we have now raised almost Fifty Thousand dollars for the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition over the years.  Make a donation and you can ride along "vicariously" (with your name on the top of the car) on the trip and help a great cause at the same time.  The Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition, represents, supports and serves breast cancer survivors and their families in Pennsylvania through educational programming, legislative advocacy and breast cancer research grants. 

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.  Make all checks payable to PBCC for short.  You can also visit https://www.pabreastcancer.org/one-lap-of-america/ and donate by using your credit card.  I am struggling to reach my fundraising goal this year, so I appreciate your generosity. This is a terrible disease that has touched the lives of many of our friends and loved ones, Thank you for considering a donation.

To help follow the adventure, I still maintain a blog at www.onelapadventure.blogspot.com where you can also find older stories. Or you can "Like" my Facebook page at Jim's One Lap Adventure. Keep watching for more updates.

2024 One Lap of America Map

 Here is the 2024 route map for our One Lap of America event.  The event starts in South Bend, Indiana but our trip starts back in  Pennsylvania.

After beginning the competition in South Bend on Saturday with a Wet Skid Pad competition, we head to Motorsports Park Hastings in Nebraska then off to High Plains Raceway out towards Denver Colorado then we head east to the new Hedge Hollow track in Missouri, then to the NCM (National Corvette Museum) track in Bowling Green, Kentucky.  On Thursday we will be closest to home at Pittsburg International Race Complex north of Pittsburg.  The same day we will then head west to Quaker City Motorsports Drag Strip in Ohio and do two Drag Strip events.   After the Drag events we will head to near Indianapolis and will run our last road course events on Friday on the Putnam Park Long Road Course, then it's back to South Bend for the last competitive event for the week, which will be the Dry Skid Pad competition.  The route will be almost 3400 miles in about a week, but adding in the miles to and from Pennsylvania and the track miles I will probably travel over 5,000 miles. 

BTW, we will be raising funds again for the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition.  We have now raised over $45,000 over the years.  I will give more details in my next story but anyone interested in donating by credit card on-line can click on  https://www.pabreastcancer.org/one-lap-of-america/ and follow the donation instructions.  Meeting my fundraising goal this year is a major challenge so please consider helping by making a donation to this great cause!

2024 One Lap of America PBCC Fundraiser

 

I will be doing One Lap of America again this year for the 15th time, and am again raising funds for the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition. I am hereby asking for donations for this very important charity. Over the last several years we have raised over $45,000 dollars. See the details for donating in the last paragraph below.

This year my Transit Driver will be Joe Yacobenas who is my Crew Chief during my SCCA MARRS races. Joe and I will share the highway driving and I will do all the competitive driving when we compete at each of the tracks. I am planning to use my new Orange C8 Corvette. I have used my Blue C6 for the last 5 year. This year we will race on 6 different road course tracks, do 2 skid pad competitions, an Autocross at the National Corvette Museum track and 2 Drag Strip events at Quaker City Motorsports Park. The event is about 3400 miles, plus the miles on the track and with my trip out to the start in South Bend, Indiana and home again I will put on about 5,000 miles in the week

This is such an amazing World Class event that I wanted to use it to do some community good, and decided several years ago to raise money for the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition. Our accumulated total to date is over $45,000 raised for a great cause. A donation of $20 or more gets your name on the car and you will ride along vicariously, or you can put a name of someone to Honor or in Memory of! For those interested in donating please stop in at Jim Roberts' West Main Auto 14 W. Main St. in Mount Joy or see Joe or me, You can donate cash or if a check make it payable to Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition or PBCC abbreviated. You can also mail a check to me at my store. If it is more convenient go online to: https://www.pabreastcancer.org/one-lap-of-america/ and you can donate using your credit card. The Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition is a great resource and represents, supports and serves breast cancer survivors and their families through educational programming, legislative advocacy and Breast Cancer research grants.

Thank You,

Jim Roberts

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A Quick Recap of my One Lap of America

Our 2023 One Lap of America is complete and in the books. As I had mentioned before, I had a tremendous start to the week on Saturday in the Wet Skid Pad Competition, finishing 7th overall out of 84 competitors, and 2nd in class, in that event.  The really neat thing is that I was the fastest American Brand car since the top 6 were all German cars with the first place being a Porsche GT3.  After the we Skid Pad we went 83 miles south to Grissom Air Force Base and did an Autocross event on the Runways.  After the Autocross we then went 311 miles northeast to near Youngstown, Ohio where we would compete at Nelson Ledges Race Track the next day. 

At each Road Course Track we do a morning and an afternoon event and when complete, usually by 2:30 or 3:00 pm we then head to the hotel near the next track.  After completing the event at Nelson Ledges we had a more than 700 mile transit to our hotel near Road Atlanta Grand Prix Course getting in about 1:30am.  After the events at Road Atlanta we then had a short 274 mile commute to Nashville Superspeedway Roval, near Nashville, Tennessee.  After finishing up at Nashville we had another over 700 mile transit to Texas where we stayed the night with Jeff & Kelly Murphy.  A BIG THANKS for their hospitality.  We ran on Eagles Canyon Raceway, Italian Canyon Course on Wednesday, the headed to Hallett Motor Racing Circuit only 252 miles north in Oklahoma where I had one of my better events of the week on Thursday.

Our transit after Hallett in Oklahoma was over 700 miles east to (National Corvette Museum) NCM Motorsports Park Road Course where it rained for the morning event and I had my best road course event of the week.  After finishing up at NCM on Friday we then headed only 373 miles north back to South Bend where we would do our final event Saturday morning, the Dry Skid Pad event where I did well becoming my 3rd best event of the week.  After the Dry Skid Pad competition they wrapped up the week with the Awards Banquet.  My transit home was just over 600 miles and including my miles from home to South Bend and to home after the finish plus the event transits and miles on the tracks I totaled 5,037 miles in just a little over a week.  

Gary "Duck" Drake, a friend from Cincinnati was my Transit Driver for 4 years now and our diet for the week was some of the finest foods available at fast food restaurants and Gas Stations 😅   My biggest success of the year was raising over $4800 dollars for the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition and now over $45,000 over the years.  A big Thank You to the members of the Lancaster County Corvette Club and the Mount Joy Lions club members and all the friends and others who donated for their generous help in my fundraising effort. 

 

INTERVIEW ON CHANNEL 21

 Here is the video that was on Channel 21 before I left for One Lap of America.  If you can't watch it on here go to Jim's One Lap Adventure on facebook. 

Great start to Week on Wet Skid Pad.

 Had a great start to the week on our first event, The Wet Skid Pad Competition.  I finished 2nd in class and 7th overall, but I was the fastest American Brand car, behind 6 German models with the first being a Porsche GT3.  Now we are off to Grissom Air Force Base 83 miles to the south for an autocross on the runways then we will drive 311 miles to Nelson Ledges road course in eastern Ohio for the next day competition.