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Project "One Lap of America" Galant VR-4
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The RochesterDSM club has formed a team to compete in the 2009 One Lap of America. The team includes Stephen Burke, Mike Hayes, Sean Caron, and Tim Harper. The project car will be a 1992 Galant VR4 which owned by Stephen Burke.
For those who don’t know what One Lap of America is here is a little history. The race called the Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash started by Brock Yates in 1971. This was a free for all …“the only rule is there aren’t any rules” race from New York to LA which featured every type of car from Ferrari’s to Rolls-Royce and every type of driver from rank amateur to Dan Gurney. The Cannonball run movies were based on the highlights from real race. 1979 marked the end of the road for the race, at least in its original form. In 1984 the Cannonball was back but this time is was a series of time-speed-distance rallies with some autocrosses thrown in. In 1992 Cannonball transformed once again into what it is a today.
The race is nearly 24hrs a day driving with competition taking place as time trials on Americas best race tracks. The event is an exercise in endurance and preparation. There are no support trucks, no pit crews, and you race the entire event on the same set of street tires. The scoring is based on your performance on the track but the real test is the car/drivers ability to traverse over 3000 miles without regard to sleep or personal hygiene. The format is grueling for sure with barely enough time to get from one event to the next. The format goes something like this race, pack the car, drive like hell for hundreds of miles hoping to make it time to catch an hours sleep in a crusty motel, unpack the car, race and repeat.
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