Mirrors

Installed Pegasus racing mirrors today. Nice quality and they should be easy to adjust and vibration free. 

Side Dzeus Fastener Installed

New carbon dash

Headrest

Catch Can

Charlie fabricated an artful catch can with a 90 degree barbed pipe fitting. 

Lola 98% complete

After several years our Lola T440 is nearly done. This week we put body back on and now final suspension set up, torquing of bolts, mirror and seat belt installation etc will be started. 

Time to think of a trailer ? 

Second Coming

After the summer hiatus we are back at the Lola. Bruce and Peter have worked on suspension as well as fuel system, installed seat and dashboard. What remains are alignment and finishing up the plumbing. I drove out to NJ and spend half a day wet sanding entire body so that Peter can repaint with proper red. 

The Finish

After 3700 miles in 7 days of driving our One Lap America has ended. 

Aeroyacht Racing's Porsche Carrera GT took us through 10 states, 8 race tracks and some beautiful back country roads. We drove through hail, sunshine, rain, tornados and even snow at one point. The personalities we met ranged from Austrian nobility, Motorhead chicks, pro drivers, Swiss chocolatiers and Hollywood stunt women. The car remained perfect throughout this endurance event. It was a test of mental and physical stamina, navigation, logistics and driver skills. I only realized how fatigued I was when after the finish I was not able to remember my own zip code !  

Mike and me are grateful to have driven this epic event. 

Next year we will participate ...in a Porsche 918 hybrid supercar. 

We WILL be back !

Burn Out

We made it to the finish in South Bend Indiana and today's dry skidpad event was won by the leading Nissan GTR - Godzillas.

Overcooked

Unfortunately on the last run our friend in the Corvette had a major off and totaled his beautiful car. Luckily he wasn't hurt. 

All together 15 out of 59 cars either crashed or had to drop out because of mechanical failure. 

We are fortunate to be still in the running. 

Now en route to our last destination (the bar at our next hotel) and skid pad challenge at our starting point 3000 miles ago in South Bend Indiana. 

539 miles to go....

Bug Killer

Our Carrera GT is a killing machine. In nearly 3000 miles of driving many a bug has lost his life on our front bumper. 

They will be dearly missed - not. 

We also inadvertently ran over an already dead roadkill rabbit to make sure it was already a goner. 

Last 48 Hours

A beautiful sunny day and brand new race track awaits us. We are now in Bowling Green Kentucky and racing in the National Corvette Museum track. Freshly surfaced it offers a very fast but technical 3.2 mile course. 

Cockpit at 147 mph

The driving environment of the Carrera GT is one of Teutonic purpose. The good news is we are surrounded by carbon and leather ...the bad - the bucket seats are made for midgets, and the firm suspension makes us eventually loose the feeling in our behinds. It usually takes about 5 hours until the ass cheecks are completely numb...

At 147 mph however you stop thinking about your behind....

Contemplate the fact that we reached this speed at 7,500 rpm in only 5th gear and the car has another 2,000 rpm and 6th gear left you wet yourself fantasizing about going beyond the cars 205 mph (331 kph)