Thursday, January 6, 2011

The Planning starts


Well it is time to start planning One Lap of America for 2011. On the map it shows the route we will be taking this year. After driving 700 miles to South Bend from home in Lancaster County Pa. we will start the event at the Tire Rack Skid pad in South Bend, In. with a wet skid pad competition on Saturday morning. From there travel one of our shortest distances of only 82 miles to Grissom Air Force Base north of Kokomo, In. for an Autocross on the runways of Grissom, Saturday afternoon. After Grissom we head east for a long drive of 552 miles to Summit Point WV. to the 2 mile 10 turn Summit Point Raceway for our Sunday morning event. This being our first road course, it is the event that will set the seeding order for the rest of the week. The higher in the field you finish at this track the sooner you do your runs all week long. The sooner you finish each day the quicker you can get moving to the next track and the quicker you get to the motel for some much appreciated sleep.
Brian Gomez another One Lap competitor, created the map graphic that you see above and is raising money for his cause "Canine Partners for Life" , be sure to go to his web site http://www.onelapfordogs.com/ for more information.
Note: If you click on the map it will enlarge for a better view. Keep checking back for more details as our plans develope.