Road America – July 17-18, 2010


After getting home from Le Mans, I had two days to recover and get caught up with business before Su and I packed Humphrey and Boomer, our two canine friends, off to the kennels and caught a plane to Milwaukee. From there, we drove to our hotel in Sheboygan late on Friday night and arrived at the glorious circuit of Road America on Saturday morning, to visit with friends and take a look to see the cars entered for the “Kohler International Challenge” Can Am race.

There were no less than twenty-eight cars entered for the main race on Sunday, (see attached photos) and there were many Lola T70s and T163s (one of which, piloted by Brian Blain, won). There were also McKees and the mighty big block McLaren M8s, although a small block-engined M8 proved to be the fastest in the field, sadly retiring with two laps to go after having a wheel-to-wheel fight with the eventual winner.

Glorious weather was a feature of the meeting until Sunday afternoon when a torrential downpour stopped play for an hour until the sun dried the track. When it rains in the Midwest, it rivals Florida for the amount of water the sky can dump in the shortest possible time. The drains couldn’t cope and for a while, the wind threatened to take the awnings away. One of the racers in “our group”, Ed Swart and his Chevron B19, were unable to go out in the two-liter sports-racing cars race, which was a shame as we had been looking forward to seeing him run.