We awoke at 5:30 this morning. Probably earlier than needed, but we wanted to benchmark ourselves on the time it takes to get up and ready, checkout of the hotel, eat drive to the track, unload and ready ourselves for the competition. This morning we arrived at the Tire Rack South Bend Indiana at 8 am after we had breakfast at Pancake House of America restaurant with a whole bunch of other One-Lappers.
Once at Tire Rack we both changed into our race suits for the team photo and observed the first 10 or so cars run in the Wet Skid Pad time trail. We thought the first most experience cars really were slow and not smooth. We are seeded number 39 out of 78 entries. The seeding is based on the experience of the Team, the car and years of running the one lap. Since this is our first year, seeded 39 is pretty good. Our challenge will be to hold or better that position throughout this 8 day endurance race.
The Wet Skid Pad time trial commences 1/3 the way around the first lap. That’s not much time at all to figure out how much grip. They time 2 laps one way, you turn around and then time 2 more laps. They average the times and calculate the G-force. Dave ran the Skid Pad and earned us a .771 G’s. After our run that placed us in 21 st place overall, considerably above our seeding. All of our National Capital Chapter Skid Pad experience paid off. But there are the other cars behind us in the seeding yet to run and we did not stick around to find out our final position. We’ll have to wait until the results are posted on the One Lap of America website.
So after Dave’s run, we packed up and headed to Grissom Air Force Base to compete in the Autocross event. Greg has a number of year’s Autocross experience and will run in this afternoon’s event. Anyway we left South Bend Winchester
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