Car and Driver mag and Michelin sponsor this once a year. Its open to cars
and trucks, and they go around the country (7 different tracks) over a 6 day
period. At each track they do a time trial style event (do laps of the track
and are timed, and the time picks the winner as opposed to "full contact"
racing with everyone on the track at the same time). There are also a couple
of drag racing events.
Its a real "grass roots" type event; there are no support vehicles hawling
spare parts allowed, only whatever will fit into the vehicle you're racing.
They have to drive the "race" vehicle between venues, so there is also a
"rally/navigation" component as well. The driver and co-driver are in the
vehicle pretty much 20 hours a day. More info on the event is at
http://www.onelapofamerica.com
There are usually segments of the events shown on SpeedVision.
Craig
-----Original Message-----
From: Alan Short [mailto:ashort@flash.net]
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 11:09 AM
To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
Subject: Re: DML: Dak R/T getting an awful spanking in the One Lap
Craig Baltzer wrote:
>
> Not a pretty picture. A Sonoma and a Ranger are just killing a Dak R/T in
> the track events. Results so far...
Craig,
Forgive my ignorance here, what race is this? Is it televised?
It sounds like a horse race or something with time quotes from various
tracks (I know it's a Truck race), I've never heard of a race like this,
is it an annual event? Alan S.
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