THANKS TO OUR SPONSORS

 Here is our "Thanks to our Sponsors" picture for 2019  (we didn't run in Covid 2020) .  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.

I am getting ready for this years event in which we will compete in early May.  Every year we do a
different route, this year we will be traveling from South Bend to Memphis then to Texas, next down to New Orleans then to Atlanta, up to West Virginia, then our longest drive to western Michigan and back to South Bend.  The event will be about 3500 miles.  With the miles to South Bend and back home, the total will be almost 5,000 miles in about 9 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 12th One Lap and we have raised almost Thirty Five 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 pbcc.me/donate  and donate by using your credit card.  Just click on Donate and follow the instructions. Be sure to fill in One Lap of America when asked for title of event.  Without the regular meetings and such because of Covid, it's hard to present my effort face to face and I am struggling to reach my fundraising goal this year. 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 this years 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 we head to Grissom Air Force Base then to Memphis Motorsports Park.  Then it's off to Texas and the newly extended and repaved Eagles Canyon Raceway.  The next day finds us in New Orleans at NOLA Motorsports Park then off to Atlanta Motorsports Park, then a few miles to the Lanier Speedplex Oval for another event the same day.  Moving up the east coast we stop at Summit Point in West Virginia then head northwest to our last road course at Gingerman Raceway in western Michigan,  The last competitive event for the week will be the Dry Skid Pad event back in South Bend.  The route will be about 3500 miles in about a week.

2020 Route for One Lap of America

Here is next years 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 we head to Grissom Air Force Base then to Memphis Motorsports Park.  Then it's off to Texas and the newly extended and repaved Eagles Canyon Raceway.  The next day finds us in New Orleans at NOLA Motorsports Park then off to Michelin Raceway at Road Atlanta.  Moving up the east coast we stop at Summit Point in West Virginia then head northwest to our last road course at Gingerman Raceway in western Michigan,  The last competitive event for the week will be the Dry Skid Pad event back in South Bend.  The route will be about 3500 miles in about a week.

BIG CHECK presentation

Here is the BIG CHECK ceremonial check presentation for the $3670 that I raised this year for the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition as part of my One Lap of America race.  Pictured with Jim is Daniele Yanich of the Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition.  And a cameo appearance of their super pink company van.

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.

I made it Home

After competing in the Dry Skid Pad challenge and then enjoying the awards banquet it was time to head for home.  Just an average transit of 615 miles and a bit over 9 hours back to Mount Joy, Pennsylvania.  The last hour and a half in the pouring rain, but it's good to be home again after being gone 9 days, and to be home for Mother's Day.  It was quite an event and counting the trip from home then back home again, I put on 5026 miles in 9 days.
The group picture by Highland Design Studio, is of the teams who made it back to Tire Rack. We are in the third row a little right of center with the Breast Cancer Stickers on the roof from our fundraising effort. All those people on the stickers rode along on this great adventure vicariously;^)

Last event, the Dry Skid Pad

The last event of this awesome week is the Dry Skid pad competition.  You run two laps counterclockwise then two clockwise and they calculate an average g-force.  I didn't do quite as well as I wanted by was able to move up by one more position in the overall standings for the week.  I finished 26th for the week which is my best finish in several years. Here is a picture with Duck Drake and I sporting our pink Pa. Breast Cancer Coalition t-shirts, with the Tire Rack skid pad behind us. BTW, You can still make a donation on line at www.pabreastcancer.org/donate  please note One Lap when asked for what event you are supporting.