[James OLC]

Last weekend the Ultimate Street Car Association (USCA) and fifty of the coolest street cars in America (and a couple from Canada) got together at the historic Daytona International Speedway to participate in the third event of the inaugural USCA season. The weekend was split in to five disciplines following the very successful USCA formula – a road rally, a day on the road course, two sessions of autocrossing and two sessions of speed stop challenge along with a design and engineering competition.





There are a bunch of really positive reviews about the weekend that very accurately reflect most of the awesome highlights of the weekend (Daytona under the lights!) and there are several places that you can find a breakdown of “the numbers” from the weekend (3650 laps by 50 competitors!) but this won’t be one of those. Don’t get me wrong – it was an awesome event and I had a great time – but as most know or have probably heard my weekend very nearly ended Saturday evening on the Rolex 24-hour course when I crashed – putting the OLC into a concrete wall just after Rolex 4.





The day up to that point had been great – we had five 20-minute sessions on the road course and most of my “discomfort” hanging over from last year’s One Lap of America stop at the track was gone and we were heading out for two final sessions under the lights. In the afternoon I was able to experience the indescribably uncomfortable sensation of passing on the high banks of the NASCAR superspeedway on more than one occasion. I think that the only thing more uncomfortable then passing someone on the outside at 155 mph has to be passing someone on the inside at 155 mph – it’s amazing that a thin yellow strip of paint can intimidate you more than a four foot safer barrier with “Daytona” emblazed down it’s length.