- Entries from May 2007

the looooong day.........

Sunday, May 6. 2007

well today so far has been pretty wild....

if you saw on the news.. the huge tornado that took out that town... we drove into that storm last night about 30 miles from mid america...

it was still raining when we woke up this morning.. i usualy like the rain.. but in this car.. on street tires... on a track i never drove before.... it got pretty interesting...

they wernt real sure what to do with the event... when we got there it was still raining... and no BS... a Tornado warning sirein was going off for the city of omaha..... the track had some puddles and small ponds on some of the strates... so they made the event just a single trial instead of 2..it finaly stopped raining.... and the track ran some pikup trucks threw the water puddles... then let us out...

we finished 3rd at autobahn so thats where we qualified.. and started.. in the first run group... on a soaking wet track... the supra didnt like it.. but i had fun... topspeed and davia were a pretty good bit faster.... and the viper.. killed us all.. again...

the next run group had a drying track and did about the same times as us...

then the track kep getting dryer and dryer.....

a honda oddesy MINIVAN.. won overall!!!.. haha.... it started 53rd.. on a totaly dry track i assume...

the navi system said 943 miles to go... to salt lake city.. its gona be a looong night..

i have more pics.. but this peesa junk cingular wireless internet sux.... i will post them up later

also.. sorry no videos yet.... the camera went dead on my outlap today.. i woulda relaly liked to have gotten incar of it...

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Day 1.... Le Fin

Saturday, May 5. 2007

finaly got to stretch the supras legs a little... had a couple things not quite perfect with the car.. but they are good now....

got hung up by a Z06 in the last long rite hand turn... almost put him in da wall...

we managed a 3rd.... .9 sec behind the topspeed beast who also got held up by traffic... and we were .5 sec faster then the wining car from last year.. Davias 996 turbo...

the hennessy viper has a very good driver in it.. and the car is awsome.. not only pulling the most mph on the strate... but more tire then anyone.. and looks to be well sorted..... its very good everywhere.... he smoked everyone pretty bad....

5th place was the nobel a solid 10 seconds behind us.....

so looks to be a 4 car battle. the hennessy viper.. Topspeeds time attack subaru... the 3 time winner porsche 996 turbo.. and us...... with the viper having the reliabilty of a non turbo car... among other advantages.... it def has the best chance... but one little eff up... and they are toast... same goes for everyone else....

watching the grand-am ROLEX GT race from VIR on the way to mid america....

Leh Keen

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Wet Skid Pad & Roundy Round

Saturday, May 5. 2007

Glad we got those out the way its about to be road course time!

Wet Skid Pad
580whp Supra's with 295 front tires and wet skid pads just dont mix to well. Leh and I disconnected the front and rear sways and softend the shocks up to try and get her to roll a little more.... well it worked ok.... we have no idea how we did as the announcer was too busy trying to figure out how he had heard the name Leh Keen before to announce our time or G's... we will have to check the results when they get posted on the one lap site. Ussually an awd or fwd take that event anyways.

Roundy Round
Well i screwed up and forgot the wedge and bump rubbers at the shop so we couldnt slap the Ricky Bobby shake and bake setup on the supra... Leh looked like he was having a little fun out there even with a fuel starvation issue popping up on the 100 yard straight...with a little less than a half tank in the car the slosh was just too much. no biggy though we are going to 3/4s for the road course stuff and shouldnt have anymore issues with that.

Leh was on track with Luke in the TopSpeed STi/rota thingy and actually managed a little faster than luke even with the fuel starvation. Luke's gearing was wrong for the roundy round he tried 3rd and hit the rev limiter and tried 4th and the car bogged.

We are on our way to our first road course event at autobahn country club south of Chicago. We will post up some pics as soon as we get there and stop bouncing in traffic. its about time to show these one lap guys just what the supra and leh have instore for them

Greg

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we made it.........

Friday, May 4. 2007

missed the drivers meeting thanks to chicago traffic.. but made registration.. and we are good to go for tommarow morning..

thank you AMS motorsports... we had a couple issues with the car we wanted to fix.. and AMS gave us a lift and a mechanic in their very busy shop.. to help us get the stuff fixed and get us on our way....

we pulled up to tire rack around 5pm.. to find a parking lot FULL of cars... some very cool stuff is racing this year.. some crazy stuff also... 400hp turbo mini vans.. tube frame ls turbo powerd dodge viper bodied crazy thing...

topspeeds car is very cool and looks like it will be very fast... it along with a couple other cars are pretty much full out racecars....

we washed the car and got some food with Doug and Luke from topspeed... and gona get some sleep now.... i dont think i will be getting much for a LONG time...

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CHICAGO

Thursday, May 3. 2007

1000 miles down.. 5000 to go...

we got to AMS around 5pm.. after 2.5 hours of traffic in the windy city....

the car is good.. no major problems....

the new tires are on.. and we leave to south bend tommarow around noon...

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Donations

Thursday, May 3. 2007

some people asked about donating...

if you wana donate... send VIA paypal to onelap@gscmotorsports.com

the money will be put to the entry fee....

thanks!!

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GONE!

Wednesday, May 2. 2007

we officialy began our journey... we left Charleston SC tonight around 9pm to AMS in chicago... we have a brand new set of michelins there waiting for us.. and we will do a once over on the car one final time before we head to south bend... this trip is 900 miles to chicago.. so if any little stupid thing is gona go wrong.. we hope it does now...

we are 200 miles into it so far... and will be getting into the mountians soon.. so that should be fun....

so far we have had these questions... and we said the following answere...

Does it have spray?..... "doenst need it"

Can i buy it... How much?... No.. we need it for the next 12 days..

How fast?...... 200

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THIS PAGE UPDATED CONSTANTLY

Wednesday, May 2. 2007

Me or Greg will update this page constantly.... maby 3 or 4 times a day once the event has begun... so just stay tuned in on it for pics, video and text of what going on..

Thanks, Leh keen

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FINAL TEST

Wednesday, May 2. 2007

We tested the car at Roebling Road in Sav GA..

driving the car to and from the track put a solid 3 hours of driving on it with no problems (as expected)

we were very happy with the results.. turning a 1:17.5 on our first lap... and tunning to a final time of 16.6.... blowing our Goal time away by over a second.... the car performance flawlessly.....

adjustments to the suspension and brakes were man... tuning for brake bias using different pads.. and the "sweet spot" on the shocks were found with the new tires.. Michelin PS2s....

the boost was left at the "low" setting for the entire day... there is a file name "996tt kill mode" in the laptop.. if its needed during onelap...

there is also a soooper secret file named "first or last"....... but thats plan Z....... : )

thanks for looking, Lehman Keen

VIDEO http://gscdownloads.com/onelaptesting.wmv VIDEO