OneLapCivicSi
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- Andy
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I’ve been lurking and learning here at CivicX for the last 2 years, and it’s time for me to hopefully give a bit back to the community. This thread will be a place for us to share our journey as we campaign my 2019 Civic Si in the 2021 Tire Rack One Lap of America.
The One Lap is an 8 day long event that covers 3000+ miles of public road transits between 8-10 different motorsports events (mostly road course time trials). The competition is all on the track, but the car must be driven the whole distance and compete on one set of tires. More information on the event can be found at http://www.onelapofamerica.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/OneLapOfAmerica/
My codriver Chris and I have been racing national autocross for many years, and you can follow our teams exploits at https://www.facebook.com/ontheledgeracing/ and @ontheledgeracing on Instagram. We’ve also done some Lemon’s racing, and our longer term goals involve completing the build of my E36 M3 for endurance racing with World Racing League.
We think the 10th gen civic Si will be a good platform for our first One Lap as it’s a great combination of performance, comfort, space, and safety (easy to maximize performance and safe at the limit). Our goal is to finish the event and have a car that is more than capable of winning the Economy class or finishing near the top of Mid Priced Sedan (not sure how they will class us). Our plan is to tackle handling and reliability first and then focus on making safe power from the stock turbo with flex fuel.
I’m starting this thread after we’ve been working on the car for a while, so over the next several of posts I’ll share what we’ve done to the car so far. One lap starts a little over 7 weeks from now, and we still have a good amount of testing and work to get ready. We will cover the remainder of the build and then also update this thread with our progress as we run the event. Finally, here is the car as it sat at the end of Jan. before our first track day of 2021.
-Andy
The One Lap is an 8 day long event that covers 3000+ miles of public road transits between 8-10 different motorsports events (mostly road course time trials). The competition is all on the track, but the car must be driven the whole distance and compete on one set of tires. More information on the event can be found at http://www.onelapofamerica.com/ and https://www.facebook.com/OneLapOfAmerica/
My codriver Chris and I have been racing national autocross for many years, and you can follow our teams exploits at https://www.facebook.com/ontheledgeracing/ and @ontheledgeracing on Instagram. We’ve also done some Lemon’s racing, and our longer term goals involve completing the build of my E36 M3 for endurance racing with World Racing League.
We think the 10th gen civic Si will be a good platform for our first One Lap as it’s a great combination of performance, comfort, space, and safety (easy to maximize performance and safe at the limit). Our goal is to finish the event and have a car that is more than capable of winning the Economy class or finishing near the top of Mid Priced Sedan (not sure how they will class us). Our plan is to tackle handling and reliability first and then focus on making safe power from the stock turbo with flex fuel.
I’m starting this thread after we’ve been working on the car for a while, so over the next several of posts I’ll share what we’ve done to the car so far. One lap starts a little over 7 weeks from now, and we still have a good amount of testing and work to get ready. We will cover the remainder of the build and then also update this thread with our progress as we run the event. Finally, here is the car as it sat at the end of Jan. before our first track day of 2021.
-Andy