Obike, a member of YourSciontC.com, will be participating in the 2008 One Lap of America with his 2005 Scion tC and will be providing updates from the road. The One Lap of America is a motorsports event in the United States since 1984. It is the successor to the Cannonball Baker Sea-To-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash, an underground auto race of the 1970s. The premise for both is to drive cross-country, but the One Lap of America respects speed limits. Obike will be updating his blog, which will automatically be fed to the YourSciontC.com forums, open for discussion!

Competition occurs as time trials held at various race tracks around the country. The competitors drive from race track to race track, (often driving 24 hours at a time) without the benefit of support crews. The field of competitors is divided into several classes based primarily on original manufacturers suggested retail prices and number of doors. Competitors may make any modifications to their vehicles as they see fit but must run on a single set of tires throughout the entire event. Race track events are time trials with up to eight cars on track at a time. Competition is for fastest time rather than wheel-to-wheel racing.

The first One Lap in 1984 circumnavigated the lower forty-eight United States with the scoring based on comparing the entrants’ declared mileage with that of the organizer’s (”guess Brock’s mileage”). From 1985 through 1991 competition was a series of Road Rallies: time speed distance events conducted on public roads. The length of the One Lap of America has been as long as 10,000 miles (16,000 km) over ten days (1989) to just under 4,000 miles (6,400 km) over six days.

The One Lap of America has attracted such famous drivers as Parnelli Jones, Price Cobb, Brian Makse, John Buffum, Elliott Forbes-Robinson, and Hurley Haywood.

The One Lap of America is a charity race that spans 4,000mi in seven days. It is an endurance race for not just the vehicle, but the drivers as well. The primary appeal of the OLoA is that the vehicle must not only race on tracks, but be driven between each event. This year the event runs from Indiana, to Wisconsin, to Iowa, to Texas, to Louisiana, to South Carolina, to Virginia, to Pennsylvania, and finally back to Indiana. All of this in a heavily modified 2005 Scion tC.

Last, and DEFINITELY not least, is to notify everyone that the charity we have chosen is Child’s Play, a non-profit organization specializing in the donation of books, cash, games, and toys to children’s hospitals all over the world. Because of this, we ask all of you to please donate. Since this is an endurance race, we ask that everyone donates a certain amount for each mile completed of the event as well as each track completed. A suggested payment scheme is as follows:

• 1-5¢ for each mile driven while still being qualified.
• $1-5 for each track event completed.
• $5 bonus for each top five finish.
• $25 bonus for a top ten finish overall.

YourSciontC.com One Lap of America Forum 

One Lap of America - Official Site

Child’s Play Charity

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