Saturday, May 9, 2015

The transit drive from Jennings, Oklahoma to Bowling Green, Kentucky was the longest of the week at over 10 hours.  Our track in Bowling Green was the new National Corvette Museum's Motorsport Park right across the highway from the Museum.  It is a really neat track with some interesting features including the "Sinkhole" which is like a corkscrew with about 75 ft. elevation drop, then back up out of the hole.  There was also a kink type corner named "Deception" that was a real challenge, a blind slightly uphill turn that will take most drivers a bit of repetition to master.  That's one of the great challenges of "One Lap", many have never seen the track and and your reconisance lap is the only practice that you get.  One adjustment they did make for this track is did not send us out pit out, they started us way up the front straight so we would see and drive through the Chicane on out lap, rather than see it for the first time at full speed.  That was an unusual concession but a wise one since the front straight is extremely fast.  This track was well thought out and I was told can be configured in 19 different ways.

There were a lot of competitors that found the time to get an event in at this new facility for some practice.  I did not, but still got respectable but not great finishes of 23rd in the morning event and 22nd place in the afternoon.  Now on to South Bend and our last event, The Dry Skid Pad.  BTW, we are now 3rd in class and 22nd overall.

Here is a pic of some of my fellow competitors in my run group.

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