2005 One Lap of America

[castrol]

Hope maybe we could get a Saturn or two in the running next year???

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Lake Effect Racing has two cars entered in the event, Mid-Priced Sedan.

The Blue 2004 SRT-4 from last year, the deerkiller, returns to terrorize the creatures of the night again. Upgrades from last year are limited to weight reduction. They put the car on scales last week and turned out a 2555 pound number. The A/C remains in the car, it's fully streetable, and should be pretty damn quick for a Neon. The car remains Stage 2 for this event, unless S3R arrives tomorrow. It will carry car number 63.

The Yellow 2003 SRT-4 is owned by M_Dunnie and is a Stage One car. This car is not expected to be competitive, as they added a lot of weight to it to make it a comfortable mobile video editting/ website updating command center. It will tow a trailer. The car will be number 72.

All of the team members are SRT Veterans;
Dale Seeley, Dunnie Morgan, Kolin Aspegren, Todd Eberline (Ebbtide), Miki Kologranic (Methkid), Jamin Cummings (JaminC)

This year, competition will be tougher in class. Three STi's, a WRX, and an EVO8 will most likely be their biggest problems. Nothing at Onelap is stock, an event that encourages unlimited modifications tends to attract the same. The Ramirez driven STi is vicious. It's been putting nearly 500 hp to the ground all spring. If it doesn't break, it will finish ahead of them. The Hagopian driven WRX is a past class winner and he'll be looking to do it again.

We don't know much about the other AWD teams, but it's fair to say that they should not be discounted. Another team that should not be discounted is the 300C SRT-8 of Heuschele and Zelkowski. "Fast as a Viper"

[matt]

Saturn used to have S-series cars that were in the One Lap race.

[castrol]

I am thinking more along the lines of... ahem... Redlines.

[urbanmonkeygod04]

I always wanted to get involved with that, but never really saw a way to; sounds like it'd be a great time. Only problem? Can't put that many miles on my leased car!

[matt]

Originally Posted by castrol

I am thinking more along the lines of... ahem... Redlines.

Eh..yeah, I know that. I was just stating that Saturn used to have cars in the One Lap of America, and I found it strange they didn't continue with the ION. Hopefully someone will step up.

[Sp00ner]

If I'm not mistaken, didn't one of the Saturns win their class, or finish in the top three one time?

[matt]

Originally Posted by Sp00ner

If I'm not mistaken, didn't one of the Saturns win their class, or finish in the top three one time?

Yeah they did, I'm not sure what car it was or the class.