Ron Adee in the front running Dodge Ram “Truck”.

One Lap of America April 30 to May 7, 2005
Article provided by David Goodman.

Introduction | Day 1 | Day 2 | Day 3 | Day 4
Day 5 | Day 6 | Day 7 | Day 8

Sunday May 1, 2005 Day 2
Sam and I got 5 hours of hotel rack time last night and man did it feel good. We were out of the hotel by 7 and at the track and all squared away early. I checked the IRP results again on the web site and it looks like they corrected the error from yesterday. So looking at the results, in the first run session we came in 25th (Glen beat me by .06 seconds) but in the second run session I scored a 20th overall and was able to beat him by almost 6 seconds.

Our fortune continued today, as of this writing Sam and I have moved into first place in the vintage foreign class, and are running 17th overall out of 90 cars. We had a great but cold and windy day at BeaveRun. I lined up behind Glen Clarke for our morning run session and on the last lap in turn 9 after he passed a Corvette he spun the car. Having been a short distance behind, I was able to pass both Glen and the Corvette before the checkered flag. That put me in 19th position for the morning run, with Glen coming in 38th after losing valuable time in the spin. The afternoon turned out even better I achieved a personal One Lap best of 7th overall with my main competitor Glen coming in 21st.

Tom Merrifield in the Rimpro BMW he saved my life Thursday night by taking the wheel.		Damon Josz in the Radical SR3, Can you imagine drving this 3000 miles on the highway.

We were paid a visit in the morning by Mike Herock a fellow Porsche enthusiast who learned about the event from my web posting on the Pelican Parts web forum. We compared notes on our cars (he has a beautiful 89 911) as he took a bunch of pictures of other Porsches, Brock Yates and Tony Swan from Car and Driver, and the venue. I always have a great time talking to other enthusiasts who come out to see the events.

Glen Clarke and Louis Fran’s 79 911. These guys kicked our butts the last three years in a row.		The Maserati Merak SS Another very cool looking Vintage Foreign entry.

We packed up the car and drove 200 miles to Lancaster Speedway for a paved oval event. Not much to say about that, three laps driving in a circle as fast as you can. The most notable part of this event is that the wind was blowing quite hard, and it was freezing. We left Lancaster, NY at about 7:30 PM and are headed to NHIS in Loudon, NH for tomorrow, a 433 mile drive. I guarantee we won’t get 5 hours of hotel rack time tonight. continue>