ONE LAP BY THE NUMBERS

This year we logged 5026 miles from Mount Joy back to Mount Joy.  The official schedule showed 3379 miles for the event plus 1230 miles from Mount Joy to South Bend and back home again.  That leaves 417 miles of which I estimated 200 on track miles which leaves 217 miles going back and forth to the hotels and maybe a wrong turn or two.  Tolls were really low at $51.09 mainly because of avoiding our famous Pennsylvania turnpike .  Gas cost us $772. and hotels were $887.  The highest price for Hi-Test gas was $4.079 in Wisconsin but I think that is because I just chose the wrong gas station.  Actually I had to get some gas at the track at the National Corvette Museum track and that was $4.279 which was about 50 cents over the local stations, but that's how it works at the track.  The lowest price was in Ohio at $3.199.  Our goal for the week was to finish in the top half of the field and we beat that goal and finished 26th, our best year in several years.  Our best event was an 9th place finish in the Wet Skid Pad Challenge.  77 vehicles started the event and 12 did not score points at our last road race event at the National Corvette Museum.  So they were either broken or in a replacement car which no longer scores points, just run for fun.  In the final picture of cars that made it back to South Bend there are 68 cars shown.

One of the great numbers this year is that we raised almost $3600, bringing our total over the years to over $29,000.  The Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition really appreciates our efforts and considers us a Grassroots supporter and it really feels good to raise money for such a good cause.  So many of our friends and loved ones have been affected by this terrible disease that we want to do all we can to help find a cure.

We will wrap up our fundraising in a few weeks, so if you still want to donate see Duck Drake or myself.  If you would like to use your credit card go on line to www.pabreastcancer.org and click donate.  Just be sure to mention One Lap of America when asked for what event.  Thanks You to everyone who has supported us in this event and in our fundraising.