May 13 - Dry Skid Pad and Banquet

Our week-long adventure wrapped up where it started, back at the Tire Rack in South Bend.  The final competitive event was the dry skid pad.  The wet skid pad had not been very kind to us, but the temperature was up, so now there were no excuses!  I wanted to at least beat the magazine skid pad results for the Fiesta ST, since those would have been done on the stock summer tires and I had the sticky Bridgestones.  I found online that Car and Driver had managed 0.90 G when they tested the Fiesta ST, so my goal was to beat that...and the little Fiesta did not disappoint - 0.962 G!

Photo:  Highland Design Studio

Photo:  Highland Design Studio

We ended up with the win in Economy car, and 45th overall - our best overall finish!

After the event wrapped up, the skid pad was opened up for donuts.  We got to see Bob and Matt in the Focus RS test out drift mode!

The overall winners:

Finally, everyone went into the Tire Rack warehouse for a catered lunch and the awards ceremony.  What a week!!

Thank you to Brock Jr. for continuing to put on this crazy roadshow, and thank you to Tire Rack and the other One Lap sponsors!