This is my first post of the 2012 effort of One Lap of America. Thanks to all of you who follow along and I hope you enjoy it and please feel free to share the blog address with anyone you might think would also enjoy following this neat motorsports event.I have included the map so you can follow along.
This year we again expect to log over 5,000 miles in total counting the trip to the starting point in South Bend and back. The official route will take us from South Bend, Indiana where we will compete in a wet skid pad competition then off to Plymouth In. to an asphalt oval event then to Joliet, Il. to the famous Autobahn Country Club Raceway all on the first day. At Autobahn we will do Time Trial laps that will set the seeding order for the rest of the event. By the next day we are due at MidAmerica Motorplex near Council Bluffs, Iowa by 8 am. Then off to tracks in Oklahoma, Colorado, Nebraska, Minnesota, Wisconsin and back to South Bend. By the end of that circuit we will have traveled over 3300 miles plus the miles on each of the tracks, all from Saturday to Saturday.
The Brock Yates One Lap of America has it roots in the Cannonball Run of the early 1970's where the goal was to get from New York City to Redondo Beach, California as fast as possible. After a few formats of competition from 1985 to 1991, mostly road rallies while driving around the United States, the present style of One Lap of America was started in 1992.
