Schaut Speed Racing Blog

The first event of the 2010 Brock Yates’ One Lap of America has come and gone. With some strong winds drying a portion of the skid pad, we decided to try to take advantage and run wide to the dry pavement and hopefully pick up enough speed to make up for the larger circle.

We’ve made better choices. While the Race Technology DL1 data acquisition system indicated g-force in the range of 0.85 - 0.96 the path was too far out and the calculated G’s (based on the time it takes to drive around the circle) was an average of 0.790 g.

This put us in 26th overall and 3rd in class.

Notable performances included one of our class competitors, Bill and Tom T in the #20 Porsche Panamara, running a 0.860 good for 5th overall! Spectacular!

The reigning champ returning in the same Nissan GT-R broke the wet skid pad record. That they set last year. 0.962. In the wet! For comparison, most family sedans are good for 0.6 - 0.7 in the dry….

We are now on our way up to Road America, and to add a bit of fun to the start of the week, driving through some pretty decent rain… with some lighting on our right and a cool looking sunset to our left. welcome back, One Lap!

The team is together once again.  Dan, Ben and Nick all arrived in South Bend safely and ready to go!!!!

The car has been transformed, as it is now cleverly disguised as a race car!  And as beautiful as ever!

Dan is taking the first turn behind the wheel and will be piloting the car around the wet (ish) skid pad here at The Tire Race.  From here we will take our first go at packing 3 peoples worth of stuff plus some tools and spares into the car and heading off on our first leg.  The goal tonight - and easy 4 hours up to Road America!

On a competition note, it looks like the 750iL dropped out, so we are down to a class of 4.  Most of the rest of the competitors are here.  Lots of puppies….  (the first timers).   Should be a fun and exciting year!