Jim and I arrived at Carolina Motorsports Park in time to have him run 1 time trial in the morning, although since there was an explosion of oil? or Antifreeze? from a car running, it was after noon. Jim is now running after everyone else runs, with another man whose purpose built (yes brand new with ?30 Minutes run time before any racing) car refuses to run.
Jim is NOT flogging the car, as it is more of an autocross car and not really setup for this type of racing, and it is 20 years old. So he picked '55' for his new number - yes, the speed limit. Anyway, he is trying to stay under 4K RPM while running. He ran the morning session and we left for Grier after we watched Scott run his afternoon session.
In Grier, SC, is the BMW Performance Center and other BMW buildings. At the support center they have a beautiful course for new BMW owners to learn how to drive their car. We used one of the courses and had a great time. Of course, with Jim running last, we only got out of there at 7:30 pm. After driving 476 or so miles, we arrived at Daytona Springs, ready for tomorrow's (whoops - today's) race. Now to blog and sleep.
After running at Daytona International for 2 time trials today, we will leave for Gainesville, FL and drag racing tonight. Jim and I will not participate in the drags, we would rather have the car last through next Saturday. As soon as we get to see Scott run and see his ET, we will leave for New Orleans and the next track for tomorrow's racing. When we finish running and checking out Scott again, we will head for Birmingham, AL on Thursday.
Jim did an estimate of our miles so far, look at his blog at onelapadventure.blogspot.com and learn more.
We also want to remind everyone that the donations can continue to be sent to PA Breast Cancer Coalition, Attn: One Lap, 344 N Reading Road, Ephrata, PA 17522. We will continue to show my car for the car show season through October, and it can be filled with many more Pink Ribbons.
Thanks all, Rick
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