The OPTIMA Batteries OneLapCamaro to defend it’s Vintage American Class Championship in 2011!

It’s official – the OPTIMA Batteries OneLapCamaro is heading back to South Bend, Indiana and points beyond to defend our Vintage American class championship in the 2011 Tire Rack One Lap of America! With continued support from OPTIMA Batteries, Hellwig Products, and FM3 Performance Marketing - and with new partners Baer Brakes and RideTech helping to up our game – we are starting to put together a game plan for what should be an exciting but grueling week! 

For 2011 Mary Pozzi will be co-driving with James Shipka in the 8 day, 3,500+ mile event which will depart Tire Rack Headquarters in South Bend on April 30th before heading south on a schedule and route that makes last years event look down right casual…

 Event 1 – Wet Skid Pad - South Bend, IN – Saturday AM

Transit 96 miles

Event 2 – Autocross – Grissom AFB, Peru, IN – Saturday PM

Transit 566 miles

 Event 3 - Summit Point Raceway, Summit Point, WV – Sunday AM

Event 4 - Summit Point Raceway, Summit Point, WV – Sunday PM

Transit 465 miles

 Event 5 – Carolina Motorsports Park, Kershaw, SC – Monday AM

Event 6 – Carolina Motorsports Park, Kershaw, SC – Monday PM

Transit 154 miles

Event 7 – BMW Performance Center, Greer, SC – Monday PM

Transit 482 miles

 Event 8 – Daytona International Speedway, Daytona, FL – Tuesday AM

Event 9 – Daytona International Speedway, Daytona, FL – Tuesday PM

Transit 115 miles

Event 10 – Gainesville Raceway (drag race), Gainesville, FL – Tuesday PM

Event 11 – Gainesville Raceway (bracket race), Gainesville, FL – Tuesday PM

Transit 545 miles

 Event 12 – New Orleans (NOLA) Motorsports Park, Avondale, LA – Wednesday AM

Event 13 – NOLA Motorsports Park, Avondale, LA – Wednesday PM

Transit 370 miles

 Event 14 – Barber Motorsports Park, Leeds, AL – Thursday AM

Event 15 – Barber Motorsports Park, Leeds, AL – Thursday PM

Transit 700 miles (!!!)

 Event 16 – Autobahn Country Club, Joliet, IL – Friday AM

Event 17 – Autobahn Country Club, Joliet, IL – Friday PM

Transit 105 miles

 Event 18 – Dry Skid Pad – South Bend, IN – Saturday May 7th AM

This year we will be teaming up with Jimi Day and Steve Kepler who will be joining us in the OPTIMA Batteries Z06 Corvette – cutting their teeth in the ultra-competitive “Big Bore” class. We’ll be towing “the coffin” again stuffed full of just about everything we can think of (including, this time, a cooler so we can avoid dehydration and hopefully exhaustion) and hopefully we learned something from our efforts last year.

 As I mentioned earlier – Baer Brakes is helping us out this year with a brake upgrade and a switch to their new floater setup (which should help us avoid killing another set of bearing and seals) and we’re working with RideTech on development and testing of their new Triple Adjustable shocks. SpeedTech Performance has also adapted the ZR1 (SKF) wheel bearing to the ATS spindle so we’ll have some additional support on Daytona’s banking. Time permitting we’ll also be switching out our current Rick’s Stainless tank for one of their new VaporWorx tanks which should also help up on some of the more difficult tracks. I’m hoping to have a couple more announcements about other improvements soon – we’ll keep you posted. I’ll be starting up a thread in the projects section to go through all of the improvements as they happen.

 Should be an exciting year!!!