This will be where I journal my SmartBall 2021 experience for future days to confirm or refresh a fading memory from a time when I was directing my own adventures.
So, SmartBall for me began in May of 2019. It was at the end of my 2019 Brock Yates Jr. "One Lap of America" tour. I drove the entire tour, 8 days covering 5,000 plus miles. I drove my 2014 Smart Car dubbed "The Harlem Edition". I had a fantastic time running state to state with the pack of One Lap competition cars. I did not enter my Smart as a competition car. My goal was to see the event up close and then actually compete in 2020 's One Lap. By the end of that event it was fully apparent it would be near impossible for me to build a competitive Smart car. As Brock Yates Jr. said "find some horse power". Though there was a Smart Car that was entered Competitively years past, to me the only way to make it fun and not just be in the way out on the track would be to convince 5 other Smart Car owners to also run in 2020 and then we would compete against each other.
I quickly put that thought on the shelf and scrapped any plan to run One Lap in 2020 in the Harlem Edition.
With that I began thinking PCH. As the One Lap tour took us as far west as Nebraska, I figured the Smart would be up for the trip. And that is how I decided to take The Harlem Edition out west and run some Canyon roads and the Pacific Coast Highway from San Diego to Seattle.
2 weeks in May of 2020.
Then Covid 19 shut down the world..............
So, SmartBall for me began in May of 2019. It was at the end of my 2019 Brock Yates Jr. "One Lap of America" tour. I drove the entire tour, 8 days covering 5,000 plus miles. I drove my 2014 Smart Car dubbed "The Harlem Edition". I had a fantastic time running state to state with the pack of One Lap competition cars. I did not enter my Smart as a competition car. My goal was to see the event up close and then actually compete in 2020 's One Lap. By the end of that event it was fully apparent it would be near impossible for me to build a competitive Smart car. As Brock Yates Jr. said "find some horse power". Though there was a Smart Car that was entered Competitively years past, to me the only way to make it fun and not just be in the way out on the track would be to convince 5 other Smart Car owners to also run in 2020 and then we would compete against each other.
I quickly put that thought on the shelf and scrapped any plan to run One Lap in 2020 in the Harlem Edition.
With that I began thinking PCH. As the One Lap tour took us as far west as Nebraska, I figured the Smart would be up for the trip. And that is how I decided to take The Harlem Edition out west and run some Canyon roads and the Pacific Coast Highway from San Diego to Seattle.
2 weeks in May of 2020.
Then Covid 19 shut down the world..............