I'm back at my computer after finishing the One Lap of America race a week ago. Shown in the photo is my co-driver, Mike in his 2007 Civic Si. If you've never heard about the One Lap before, it's a week of driving to a different track a day (sometimes two tracks per day). Add on top of that hotel breakfast food (hard boiled eggs, yum), at least one cheeseburger per day (I just couldn't do the cheese about midweek), unloading/loading the car daily, and driving late into the night for your reward: a hot shower and a bed at Holiday Inn Express. Mike and I switched off on the driving--both racing and the transits--Mike was lucky, he got the rain days. The trek started and concluded at the South Bend, Indiana Tire Rack headquarters and otherwise proceeded as follows: Indiana to Iowa to Texas to Louisiana to South Carolina to Virginia to Pennsylvania and back to Indiana!!! Phew-a little over 4000 miles-not counting track time! There are lots of photos to browse online on the One Lap of America site and Flikr. Thanks go to all of the event organizers, people who fed us, timing and scoring, people who kept checking in via phone and emails, all night gas stations and GPS!! I know I'm not mentioning everyone, but I am grateful to everyone that made this a life-changing experience for me! One that I will treasure for a long time...I guess until I do another One Lap! Thank you! Thank you!!!
Thanks goes to Bill for putting up this image of Matthew Johnson's new Open Class rally car. Matthew and I worked hard over the winter to design this graphics package for it. I'm very happy it turned out so well!! I know that Hankook Tires and RalliSpec will be thrilled with how this design shows up in print and video!
