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.

THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS PICTURE

 Here is our "Thanks to our Sponsors" picture for 2022.  I am on the right and Gary "Duck" Drake, my Transit Driver is on the left.  We will be using my 2008 Corvette again 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 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 3400 miles.  With the miles to South Bend and back home, the total will be almost 4,800 miles in about 8 days.

Gary "Duck" Drake from Hamilton, Ohio will be my Transit Driver again this year, helping with the highway miles, and I will do all the competition driving.  Duck is a car guy and is a great asset on our adventure. This will be my 14th One Lap and we have raised over Forty three 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.

ONE LAP OF AMERICA ROUTE MAP FOR 2023

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

After beginning the competition with a Wet Skid Pad event at Tire Rack's facility in South Bend on Saturday we head to Grissom Air Force Base then to Nelson Ledges in eastern Ohio.  Then it's 700 miles off to Atlanta to Road Atlanta Grand Prix Course, After Atlanta we have a shorter drive to the Nashville Superspeedway Roval.  We do two events at each road course then head to the next track.  Another long transit to Eagles Canyon in Texas for Wednesday.  The same day we have a short drive north to Thunder Valley Raceway Park for 2 drag strip events, then north to Oklahoma to Hallet Motor Racing Circuit for Thursday's events.  When we are complete at Hallett we have another long transit of almost 700 miles to the National Corvette Museum Motorsport Park Road Course.  After the 2 events on Friday we head back to South Bend to finish up on Saturday.  The last competitive event for the week will be the Dry Skid Pad event back in South Bend.  The event route will be about 3400 miles in about a week, plus the miles from Pa. and back home again. 

I am still raising funds for the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition and anyone who donates I will put their name, on a sticker on the roof on my Corvette so you can ride along vicariously.  See me to donate or you can donate on line by credit card at https://www.pabreastcancer.org/one-lap-of-america/

Fundraising for Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition

 

I will be doing the One Lap Of America again this year 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 $40,000 dollars. See the details for donating in the last paragraph below.

As previously announced, this year my Transit Driver will be fellow car enthusiast Gary "Duck" Drake from the Cincinnati area. Duck and I will share the highway driving and I will do all the competitive driving when we compete at each of the tracks. This year we will race on 6 different road course tracks, do 2 skid pad competitions, and one Autocross on the runways of Grissom Air Force Base. The event is about 3400 miles but with my trip to the start in South Bend Indiana and then home I will put on almost 4,800 miles.

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 $40,000 raised for a great cause. A Donation of $20 or more gets your name on the car and you can ride along vicariously;^) You can also put a name on in Memory or in Honor of someone. For those interested in donating and getting your name on a sticker on the car please stop in at West Main Auto in Mount Joy or see Duck or me, (make all checks payable to PBCC or Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition). You can also mail me a check at West Main Auto 14 W. Main St. Mount Joy, Pa. 17552. If it is more convenient just go 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. The PBCC is a statewide non-profit organization that creates the hope of a brighter tomorrow by providing action and information for women with breast cancer today. Thank you, Jim Roberts