Hi guys,
As promised, we're going to be running One Lap of America this year in our shop car. It's a pretty grueling racing series.

check it out!

Anyone else on this forum going? If so, let me know and we can talk about prep. This way, we can help each other out by not having to carry the same extra parts

Al/Dynoflash- You're still going, right?

Shiv

 

Shiv,

Best of luck with the great race. I've read with much interest in Car & Driver about this race for years. I can't wait to see how your Evo fairs! Remember to evade the po-lease for a multitude of traffic tickets!

Also, with Vipers, GT2's, and C5 Vettes, you'll need all the luck you can get. Just PLEASE don't make print by piloting the Evo into a track wall - for schnizzle.

 

Al won't be able to reply here - re-post this in the Dynoflash forum...

 

Good luck Shiv! Hopefully some of our members who live along the route can get out to cheer the Evo's!

Speedlimit...

 

Good luck, Shiv! It will certainly prove your car is reliable if you can make it the whole week. Personally, I'm not that interested in running the One Lap. It seems like too much highway slogging for too little track time. The OTC looks like a better proposition in terms of track time vs. highway time.

The event I'm planning to run with the Evo is the Targa Newfoundland. This is a 1000 km all-tarmac rally in a beautiful setting. No Evos have run this event yet, but there's a rumor that there will be an Evo 4 entered this year.

It would be tough to place well in an Evo as the event favors vintage cars (in terms of classing). But it looks like a blast! I have to do this before leaving Canada.

Emre

 

That is the Challange of One-Lap. Not best three laps after 4 twenty minute sessions (OTC). You ONLY get three to four laps (twice a day) with no warm up from a standing start. It is a very unforgiving event that is much more compeditive than OTC. But yea, not tons of track time One-Lap is put-up or shut-up and move on (day after day), it will wear your *** out! Targa rules BTW! do it

 

One Lap seems to be more brutal than OTC and it also attracts the pinnacle of driving as well as tuning talents out.

 

sounds fun

 

Thanks for the kind words guys!

To give you an idea of how tough of a test One Lap is, when was the last time you drove any high modified, super high-output, highly boosted turbo car for 6000 miles and 8 track events without running into a mechanical issue. No cracked turbo manifolds. No spun rod bearings. No detonation. No ABS malfunction. No popped intercooler hoses. Nothing. Nada. Well that's exactly what we're hoping for... fingers crossed

It also looks like our daily progress is also going to be covered on the radio. More on that later

The link in the first post shows all the tracks that we'll be running. And they, literally, are scattered all over North America. That means that there is a good chance that many evom members will be driving distance from at least one of them. If so, make sure to come and watch. Nothing better than seeing an EVO spit 6 foot long flames out the tailpipe as it gobbles up Vipers down the main straight.

Shiv

 

good luck!!! Thanks for representing!

 

yeah, hats off to you shiv. hope everything goes well!!

 

I think it's great that our cars are being represented in the One Lap. I would love to see other tuners join in but I can see how this would be a major commitment in time and money and not everyone has the ability to participate.

Regardless, good luck Shiv and I hope you kick butt and give our cars a reputation boost here in the States.

 

This is going to be cool, it will be great to represent the Evo among all those great cars... hopefully you'll put updates online often too. Unfortunately, it's not coming close enough to DC for me to check it out. Any idea if any of this will be on tv (Speed?)?

 

this is awesome, it's too far away for me to come also, but i am sure am hoping you guys lay down the smack on those vipers and vettes!!! thanks for representing us shiv, i'm sure you guys will do awesome.

 

Aw, c'mon. EvolutionM member Meeyatch1 drove his new Evo 8 in last year's One Lap. He reported there was no competition nor abuse involved. Of course he also reported that he was trying to get Mitsubishi to fix for free under warranty his engine's rod knock within 2 weeks of finishing the One Lap.

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