Your 2012 One Lap of America Link Collection

Alright, so I mentioned before a couple of links for you to follow the 2012 One Lap of America on.  Here's a more comprehensive selection:

Official One Lap Event Links:
www.onelapofamerica.com/Home.do
https://www.facebook.com/OneLapOfAmerica
http://trackguide.com/OLOA/category/one-lap-blog/

Scoring:
http://www.onelapofamerica.com/event/ResultsIndex.do?eventId=31


Title Sponsor Links:
http://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/grm/ride-along-with-grm-at-one-lap/49157
GRM's "man on the ground" is pulling dual duty though, with Andy Hollis' OneLapCRX, who's updating here:
https://www.facebook.com/OneLapCRX

Tire Rack:
https://www.facebook.com/tirerack
TireRack supplies the tires, and two of the venues.  Plus they support Joe Woodward's Miata.  He's awesome (you'll be seeing that a lot), and is running pretty quick this year.

Rosenthal Media is supposedly doing stuff as well, and has their own page.  But I'm not going to link to it.  You can get all their updates through the OneLapOfAmerica Facebook page, or "TrackGuide" page... and the TrackGuide page is easier to navigate.

Blogs of Note:
Stephen & Tim in the Rochester DSM Evo:
http://onelap.rochesterdsm.org/
http://onelap.rochesterdsm.org/track-the-team/
These guys are awesome.  Stephen posts a bunch, and all of his posts go up on the blog, even if it's a tweet.  Which makes it soo much easier.  Plus they're delightfully funny, and honest.  Finally, they're pretty darn quick to.  So, hit them up!

Jerry & Ric 302 Boss Mustang:
http://oldcrowsonelap.blogspot.com
Ric is part of the "Golden Colorado Crew", which are a ball to hang around with.  He also offered to buy me a new set of tires back in '09... although I wasn't quite up to the challenge.  He and his dad are posting about daily (so far), so keep an eye on them.

JimBob Racing:
onelapadventure.blogspot.com
Jim is another great person (it's hard not to meet great people on OLoA).  He blew his motor last year, trucked home, grabbed a spare car, and finished the rest of the event in exhibition.  Not to jinx him, but so far he's running pretty quick... although not updating very much.

http://onelapforlife.blogspot.com
The NoVA BMW group.  Looks like Robin is handling updates for him and Woody's cars: and he's managing about a post a day.  They're pretty good about finding interesting stories, or creating them on their own.

http://oloateambadcredit.blogspot.com
Two guys from Iowa, in a borrowed Supercharged Jag.  Lap Puppies last year, Lap Dogs now.

http://www.g66racing.blogspot.com
Apparently had a parking lot accident yesterday, but getting back into the swing.

http://www.expatoloa2012.blogspot.com
I don't know what to make of these guys.  They're a little all over the map, although they were quite good in their "pre-game" (re:Hoosiers).

Jon & Peter Lier
http://www.racerjon.com/events/onelap12/intro.html


Other (Facebook, the Twitters):
http://twitter.com/#!/search/%23OLOA%20OR%20%23OneLap
http://twitter.com/#!/grm_mag/
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Honda-Manufacturing-of-Alabama-Race-Team/313894358653360
https://www.facebook.com/jennawagnerracing

AutoBlog:
http://www.autoblog.com/2012/05/05/2012-one-lap-of-america-starts-today/
Chris Paukert is in the timing crew, so this might be his only post until next Sat/Sun.  But, one of the best collections of the photos of the majority of the Grid that I've seen.

Google+ has been pretty devoid of #OLoA, but that doesn't exactly surprise me.

So, I think that's most/all of it.  Some interesting news/stories filtering out so far.  Competition has certainly stepped up over last year.  I'm definitely going to have to find some more ponies (and maybe cajones?) for when I head back to the OLoA start line in the future!

Monday Note

There's a pretty real chance this Blog is going to be pulled down.  I'm particularly unhappy about being forced into the "new Gmail" look.  I know some people would probably have labeled me as something of a Google "fanboi" in the past, and considering the breadth of their services it's going to take some time to figure out alternatives, or if those alternatives are right for me, etc.

So, stay tuned Spacecowboys

A Smattering of Notes

Yes, I've been back to the Nürburgring since the last post here. I've got some info on my last visit "in the works". Not that there are a lot of you out there awaiting my updates fervently.

In lieu of that update... some notes:

1) I have been following Dennis Palatov's blog for a while (probably around 2005 for me). He's developing a version of his DP4 Pikes Peak this year. He could probably use your help.

2) Because of my following of DP, I found out about /Drive...
and have thoroughly enjoyed my time spent watching it since. I was a lurker on Driver's Republic, back before it tried to go all Web3.0 (i.e. we will use your data against you) and fell apart. So, it's nice to have an easy place to get my Chris Harris fix. Now I just need to find an automotive eMag that has an equivalent level of photography that Driver'sRepublic used to have.  Oh, yeah, and Leo Parenta (sp?) has been quite entertaining as well.

3) OneLapofAmerica is kicking off soon (two weeks!?!?), so I figured I'd collect some blog links that I want to keep track of (that I have so far)... and you might enjoy their... tribulations too:
Rick & Pop: http://oldcrowsonelap.blogspot.com/
Tony & Sebastien: http://evergreen1lap.blogspot.com/
Tim & Stephen: http://onelap.rochesterdsm.org/
Jim: http://onelapadventure.blogspot.com/
Robin Sparrow: http://onelapforlife.blogspot.com

As always, there's a certain amount of "horsing around" going on in the entrant's list.
It'll be interesting to see how it actually shakes out.

One interesting point (w.r.t. entries): Pete & Matt have ditched their 328i for an '02 Vette.