Thursday, April 28th, 2011 2315H
The 2011 Tire Rack One Lap of America officially kicks of tomorrow with Registration, Tech Inspection, and our marching orders from Brock Yates Jr. and the One Lap crew!
Today Mary and I made a short drive from Chicago to FM3 Performance Marketing's facility just south of town to pick up the OPTIMA Batteries OneLapCamaro. The car was a bit beat up from a rough trip east from the Long Beach Grand Prix:
In a fluke accident a fluorescent light broke off the ceiling and fell on the car – scratching the rear cowl and deck lid and making a general mess of the passenger side quarter panel. No time to fix it before we leave so it will have to wait until after the race and then get some love from the Ring Brothers. Oh well… if that's the worst thing that happens to the car this week…
Anyways, after warming up the car and hooking up the trailer we were on the road for a 200 mile shakedown run to South Bend, Indiana. The weather gave us a little bit of everything for the drive – cold, dreary rain… colder, drearier sleet… and even colder and more unwelcome snow. What a great way to get things rolling…
We took the opportunity to make sure that the live GPS Tracking was working on our website – www.OneLapCamaro.com/live - (it is) and to check out a new iPad GPS app called Navigon – an alternative to (or hopefully just a backup for) our trusty but dated Garmin GPS. It worked well but really chews through the battery – a lesson hard learned when the iPad ran out of juice just 2 miles from our pitstop – the exotic Super-8 Motel just a few minutes from Tire Rack Headquarters.
At the end of the day we are all here safe and sound and ready to take on the day tomorrow…
Cheers!
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