2014 Drive Against Prostate Cancer: Just Five Weeks to Go!

Saturday, March 28, 2009

Just Five Weeks to Go!

Hello all.....time is flying now and there is so much yet to accomplish! There are just five plus weeks before the Drive to End Prostate Cancer golf tournament and the start of the Tire Rack Cannonball One Lap of America.

The golf tournament plans are really starting to come together and I have lit a bevy of candles to the weather gods that we have sunny skies and fair temperatures. There are 23 foursomes ready to take on Westwood Country Club and we are hoping to gather in a few more for the first year of this tourney. It's going to be a fun day and a great outing to promote ZERO - The Project to End Prostate Cancer and its programs.

As I mentioned in the previous blog below, we were in the process of setting up a happy hour to promote the One Lap car and hopefully raise additional donations to support the Drive to End Prostate Cancer. Well, I am here to report that Lisa Scala of Herman Miller has secured a location and date for our "Stick It to Prostate Cancer" happy hour. We will have ZERO themed stickers that will be provided for a donation that can then be personalized and stuck on the One Lap car. The details for the event are in the column to the right under "Stick It to Prostate Cancer Event". Please come out and support this great cause in men's health and make some new friends. I look forward to seeing everyone who can make it out.

As far as One Lap preparations are concerned, my co-driver this year is famed BMW club member and instructor Woody Hair of Arlington, VA. This will be Woody's eighth One Lap, but first with us partnered. We are both headed to Summit Point on April 8th for a day of testing and getting Woody some seat time in the 335i which he has never driven at speed on a track. We have changed the rear spring set up from last year (moved from 500 lb springs to 1,000 lb springs) and so I am anxious to "feel" the difference in the handling and transitions. I'll provide an update on our test date. In the meantime, Road Race Technologies (RRT) will also be making a few final preparations on the car as far as safety and performance options. The week before we depart for South Bend and the One Lap event, RRT will wrap up the general maintenance items on the car and hopefully we are good to go. Woody and I are both looking forward to the adventure.

That's all for now....thanks for reading and the continued interest in the Drive to End Prostate Cancer!

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2014 Corporate Donors/Sponsors

THE 2014 TIRE RACK CANNONBALL ONE LAP OF AMERICA ROUTE/SCHEDULE

Ten Days - 4,550 Miles
May 1 - Drive to South Bend, IN (days drive 650 miles)
May 2 - One Lap Registration & Tech, South Bend, IN (days drive 0 miles)
May 3 - Wet Skid Pad Event, Tire Rack HQ's, South Bend, IN
May 3 (cont.) - Grissom Air Force Base, Peru, IN [autocross]
May 3 (cont.) - Sticker Stop at Corvette Museum, Bowling Green, KY
May 3 (cont.) - Bowling Green, KY to Memphis, TN (days drive 641 miles)
May 4 - Memphis International Raceway [time trial events]
May 4 (cont.) - Memphis International Raceway [bracket drag races], Memphis, TN to New Orleans, LA (days drive 406 miles)
May 5 - NOLA Motorsports Park [time trial events], New Orleans, LA
May 5 (cont.) - Mobile Raceway [time trial events], Mobile, AL
May 5 (cont.) - Sticker Stop USS Alabama, Mobile, AL
May 5 (cont.) - Mobile, AL to Dawsonville, GA (days drive 555 miles)
May 6 - Atlanta Motorsports Park [time trial events]
May 8 - Carolina Motorsports Park [time trial events], Kershaw, SC
May 8 (cont.) - BMW Performance Center [time trial event], Greer, SC to Alton, VA (days drive 388 miles)
May 9 - Virginia International Raceway [time trial events], Alton, VA to Wampum, PA (days drive 455 miles)
May 10 - Pittsburg International Race Complex [time trial events] Wampum, PA to South Bend, IN (days drive 343)
May 11 - Dry Skid Pad, Tire Rack HQ's, South Bend, IN to Arlington, VA (days drive 613 miles)
May 12 - REST and HOME, Arlington, VA

ABOUT THE DRIVERS

ROBIN SPARROW:

Robin Sparrow is a Director of Project Management Services in Studley's Suburban Washington office. Last year Robin and his co-driver, Robert Grace, finished the 2013 OLOA in the top 20 overall and third in class - thanks Robert!!! Robin also joined the racing ranks in 2012 by competing in the NASA Series Spec 3 for BMWs. Stay tuned to Robin's Blog as he travels the country again raising money for ZERO - The End of Prostate Cancer during the 2014 Tire Rack One Lap of America / Drive Against Prostate Cancer!

WOODY HAIR:

Old fart, hot shoe use to be, generally all around good egg. Woody hails from Arlington, Virginia - his life long home. Woody is the former HPDE Champion of North America. He has also won numerous SCCA, NASA, and BMW National Capitol Chapter autocross events. This is Woody's 12th One Lap of America.