Good Finish for 2026 One Lap of America

 We finished up on May 9th and returned home late that day.  I was very pleased with my finish this year.  This was my 17th  year, and Rich Grant was my Transit Driver for the 2nd year.   We went as far West to just east of Denver Colorado.  The morning we were at Highplaines Raceway, east of Denver, the forcast for Denver was 6 inches of snow, but we only saw a few snow fluries, Thank Goodness.  My fundingraising for The Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition was sucessfull this year raising over $6,000 and now over the last several years I've raised over $60,000 for this great cause. 

This Years Map of One Lap of America

It won't be long until we leave for our One Lap of America event.  Here is a picture of this years route. We will start at the Tire Rack site in South Bend Indiana with the Wet Skid Pad competition then off to Nashville Track to start our racetracks.  This year we will be going as far west to High Plains Raceway not far from Denver Colorado.  Several tracks for the week and also a Drag Strip event, then back to South Bend at the end of the week for the Dry Skid Pad competition, which is the last event.  I am still doing fundraising for The Pa.Breast Cancer Coalition.  If you would like to donate I will put your name on the Breast Cancer Sticker on the roof of the Corvette and you can ride along vicariously.😅  See me at West Main Auto in Mount Joy, Pa. with cash or a check, or you can mail me a check at 14 W. Main St. Mount Joy, Pa. 17552
 

 Here is our "Thanks to our Sponsors" picture for 2025.  I am on the right and Rich Grant my Transit Driver for 2025 is on the left.  We will be using my new Orange 2023 Corvette again this year.  In addition to the Sponsors, I would like to thank Kurt Steidle for completing this picture for me.  Thanks to Kinley 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 3,100 miles.  With the miles to South Bend and back home, the total will be over 4,500 miles in about 8 days.

Rich Grant will be my Transit Driver again this year, helping with the highway miles, and I will do all the competition driving.  Rich is a member of the Northern Virginia Corvette Club.  This will be my 17th One Lap and we have now raised over Fifty Five Thousand dollars for the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition over the last several 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, see me or stop in at the store or send to Jim Roberts % West Main Auto, 14 W. Main St. Mount Joy, Pa. 17552.  Instead of your own name you could put a name on the sticker of someone that you would like to Honor.  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 challenged 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.

Here is our "Thanks to our Sponsors" picture for 2024.  I am on the right and Joe Yacobenas my Transit Driver for 2024 is on the left.  We will be using my new Orange 2023 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, 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 2,700 miles.  With the miles to South Bend and back home, the total will be over 4,000 miles in about 8 days.

Rich Grant will be my Transit Driver this year, helping with the highway miles, and I will do all the competition driving.  Rich is a member of the Northern Virginia Corvette Club.  This will be my 16h One Lap and we have now raised over Fifty Thousand dollars for the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition over the last several 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, see me or 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 that you would like to Honor.  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, and I still need several hundred dollars to meet this years goal.  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.

 I will be running One Lap of America again this year for the 16th year. For the last several years I have been raising funds for the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition.  Last year we have now raised over $50,000 over the years and I was awarded the Pa. Shinning Light Award last October, at their Pre Conference Pink Party at the Hilton Hotel in Harrisburg.  If you would like to donate to The Breast Cancer Coalition, I will put your name or the name of someone you would like to Honor, on a sticker on  the roof of my Corvette.  Thanks to all for helping me doing this fundraising for a Great Cause.  You can see me to donate or feel free to stop at my store "Jim Roberts' West Main Auto at 14 W. Main St. Mount Joy, Pa. 17552.  If you mail me a check you can abbreviate to PBCC or spell it out Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition.  If you would like to use your credit card to donate, go online and send to 
https://www.pabreastcancer.org/one-lap-of-america/

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.

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

Heartland Park Grand Prix Course

Heartland Park was another wet day.  I was pleased with my finishes but would have liked to do even better.  As usual we had a morning event and an afternoon event then we were supposed to do two Drag events but because of the rain they cancelled the Drags and we were able to get a head start on our 518 mile trip up to Putnam Park in southwest Indiana.  

IF IT'S HALLETT IT MUST BE WEDNESDAY

If it's Hallett it must be Wednesday. We kind of lose track of the days so we just look at the schedule to see where we are and what day it is;^) It was a rainy day at Hallett and very slippery, slid a good bit but never went off track and did pretty good. After the afternoon session we headed up to Kansas to Heartland Park Grand Prix Course. On the drive to Kansas we had tornado watches and warnings and some tremendous downpours of rain. Fortunately we never saw any tornados.

BARBER MOTORSPORTS PARK

Tuesday was at the famous Barber Motorsports Park.  But before I went out to the track I found a Tire store that was able to replace my tire pressure monitors and got my car back to normal.  Had a decent run at Barber,

when we completed the afternoon session at Barber we started on the longest transit of the week, 700  miles to Oklahoma where we would run at Hallett the next day.

CAROLINA MOTORSPORTS PARK

Monday we ran on  the Carolina Motorsports Park National Standard Track,  just did ok, not great, since I had pulled the fuse on the ABS/traction control system because the system was fighting me on track with the failed tire pressure monitor.  After finishing as Carolina we were off to Lanier Speedplex paved oval near Atlanta only 248 miles away.  Decent run there then off to Birmingham, Alabama 238 more miles west to run at Barber Motorsports Park on Tuesday.  Got in at a reasonable time and got some much needed sleep. 

NASHVILLE SUPERSPEEDWAY ROVAL

 After Wet Skid Pad Competition and an Autocross on the runways of Grissom Air Force Base in Peru Indiana we headed 366 miles south to the Nashville Superspeedway Roval.  I have not been here and on my reconnaissance lap I ran off into the grass in the infield.  Usually that would not be too big a deal, but they had installed a sidewalk for workers to walk out to the track area and did not tapper the ground next to it.  I hit that concrete edge and damaged two tires.  After changing to my spare tires one of the tire pressure monitors didn't work and when I went out on my qualifying lap the ABS system kept fighting me and slowed down my effort big time.  Unable to fix the tire pressure monitor I finally removed the fuse from the system to disable the ABS/traction control and things worked much better for my afternoon run.  Hopefully the rest of the week will be better.  Now we are off to Carolina Motorsports Park only 438 miles away.