One Lap of America May 6 to May 13, 2006
Article provided by David Goodman.

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Wednesday May 10, 2006, Day 5
Today at VIR was a very eventful and satisfying day. We drove to the north paddock, unpacked the car, and then drove the car to the South paddock to run the South course. We are going to run three events today, the South course and the North course in the morning and the full course in the afternoon.

The first run sessions in the morning went well. I knew I did much better on the South course than the North course simply because I know it so much better. Sure enough when the results came out I scored a 19th overall on the South course and a 27th overall on the North course. My buddy George in the Viper was extremely thrilled to have beaten me on the North course and proceeded to needle me for several minutes when the results were posted.

It was a beautiful day at the track and we got plenty of time to relax during lunch. We sat around shooting the shit with my buddy Stewart Petke who drove down from Richmond to hang out for the day. Mom and dad split around noon.

On the full course, George's co-driver Ryan will be driving the Viper. As always we have a friendly rivalry going on and there was a lot of smack talk about who was going to beat who in the afternoon session. I got the car out on the track and it felt amazing. Before long I will have the same confidence in this car that I had in the car that I was driving for five years prior. When the results of this run session were finally posted, Ryan was dumbfounded to find out that his blistering 16th overall finish wasn't enough to beat my 13th overall finish. Man, I was hauling the mail this afternoon.

There were two casualties today one major and one minor. The major one was a silver Noble which crashed hard coming out of turn 10. The driver is okay, but the car sustained heavy damage. As we packed the car and left the North paddock, they were working feverishly to put it back together. We hope we see them tomorrow. The minor casualty was Sam's head, which sustained a minor sunburn, he says it feels like a baked potato. continue>