Sunday, May 11, 2014

Day 6 at Mid Ohio

Mid Ohio is a beautiful track that hosts world class racing like Indy Car and the former American LeMans series .  It is a track that should be on every track day guy's bucket list.  I really need to go back for a track day.  When competing with One Lap you only get one lap to reconnaissance the track then your competition laps begin.  You really don't have the seat time to get really good at it in 4 laps.  The track is well maintained and is like a park setting and is very challenging with interesting corners and lots of elevation changes.  I posted  a 25 place finish in the morning and improved to a 17th place in the afternoon.  We were chipping away at the hole we were in from missing those four events on Monday.   From dropping to about 35th place we were now up to 29th.  Our goal on entering One Lap of America was a top 20 finish which is a challenge when competing with a lot of very  good drivers and awesome equipment.  After our engine problem, we reset our goal to the top half of the field.  In racing we call that finishing "above the fold".
When we leave Mid Ohio we head to DEI (Design Engineering Inc.)  for a checkpoint stop and some hospitality and dinner.  A very friendly group at DEI, thanks for everything.  Only 277 miles left from DEI to South Haven, Michigan for our next day's event at the Gingerman Raceway.

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