We made it home.

Well, we made it home again.  My Transit Driver Steve Barrett made it home to the Cincinnati area on Saturday evening and let me know he got a nice home cooked meal and a full 8 hours of sleep.  Steve was a great choice as a partner.  He was a big help in the highway driving and helped me get ready for my runs and kept checking over the car and keeping aware of what was going on at the track and in the paddock.  I had more than one person ask me in amazement about heading off on an 8 day 3700 mile event sharing hotel rooms and being in the car shoulder to shoulder with someone I didn't know before last Friday except for a couple of phone calls and emails.  But it worked out very well.  As far as myself, I didn't get home until Sunday morning.  With a 600 mile run home, I decided it was time to stop after about 475 miles and get a motel.  With no co-driver for the trip home from South Bend and leaving about 3 pm it was time to stop.  

Just to share some numbers, the highest price we paid for gas was $4.58 around Chicago and a low of $3.59 in Oklahoma, and that was for hi-test.  We spent almost $1100 for gas and were averaging over 20 mpg on the transit runs and about 6 mpg on the track events.  We had a couple of transit runs where we averaged over 22 mpg and that was pulling a trailer.. The overall for combined came out to 17.09 mpg.  Our best finishes were the Dry Skid pad with a 10th place and the morning run at Mid America Motorplex out in Iowa where we got an 11th place finish. 

Don't forget we are still raising money for our charity, the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition.  We still need about $375 to meet this years goal.  For a donation of $10 or more we will place your name on a Pink Ribbon sticker on the car, or the name of someone you would like to honor or memorialize.  Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition helps women going through Breast Cancer as well as helping to fund mammograms and research.  Help us meet our goal.  Please make any checks out to Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition or PABCC and send to Jim Roberts 14 W. Main St. Mount Joy, Pa. 17552.  This event is really a lifetime experience and we felt is was a good way to leverage it to the community good by raising funds for this worthy charity.