“Lap of the World”, in its various guises, is a creative outlet that enables a couple of humans to play with cars, travel together, and meet awesome like-minded people along the way. 2022 will mark our 4th year of turning our adventures into content for KZread, and we hope to do so for many more.
-Richard & Liz
"Road Trip, Racetrack, Wrench, Repeat!" Our mission is to drive as many different road courses as possible, experience the tracks, the locales, and the cultures surrounding each and share those with you, our amazing viewers. In between track adventures we work to maintain a humble stable of a nearly 300,000 mile Acura NSX, and new-ish-to-us Lamborghini Gallardo such that either can get us to, from, and around a circuit on any given weekend!
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Excellent content!
Woot! Congrats So happy for you guys!
I remember the Lake Afton Grand Prix.
Lot's of folks have mentioned Lake Afton so I'm moving that up on my "hit list" for somewhere to visit soon. I was aware of it but we aren't in Kansas very often.
You live in a great place to have events like this as there are other supporting adventures to look at.
We couldn’t make it this year hopefully next will be there
Great seeing you both there. See you in July!
Great seeing you both as well. 'til next month!
nice short and sweet recap. i'll make it to one of these events someday...
Definitely should. We need to get out to WestFest some year as well.
Grande evento !! Abraços!!
The cesspool of LA
I will have to make my way up to see that sometime.
I used to go the Ponca City Gran Prix. Family and friends all went together and had great fun. Fabulous racing.
I am struggling with this light issue after a long period with a flat battery, my Lamborghini dealer claims there are no fault codes when they hook up the Lara to the car, so they don’t know what to do.. Do you by any chance know what was done with your car to get rid of this? My car claims there is a dipped headlight failure..
These cars do tend to pitch a fit after being left without battery power for any length of time. I've added the relevant forum thread link to the video description (I thought I had back when I published it, but I guess not). Hopefully that helps. Granted, this was pretty specific to the side markers not having a blinking function in the US market, so YMMV with respect to the different dipped headlight error. Taken in excerpt: "THE SOLUTION: Clearing the codes with the dealership's LARA computer did not work as mentioned, but once he figured out what happened he had to change the setting so that the car saw itself as a non-European model. There was one setting he had to change and I don't know exactly what this means but a Lamborghini tech should know and I am providing it in hopes of saving your tech time and money. This is what he did to change that setting using the LARA computer: Channel 19 Change the code to be: 01100 Using the "Kombi Adaption""
@@LapoftheWorld thank you very much sir 👍🏻 hope the Lambo tech will get it sorted soon. Will forward your info
A group used to race outboard hydrofoil boats at Claremore Lake about the same era.
This is great. I worked turn 6 for 3 years and raced there in 1978 in a Showroom Stock LeCar! Drove all the way from Savannah GA. Now I live 7 miles as the crow flies from Rd Atlanta.
I would be interested to hear more about the farmer on the corner. That’s probably my grandfather.
I was also horribly curious about that situation, but I did not find any official or 1st hand accounts during my research. If that was him and you find out more, please share!
Was just at Hallett for a Lemons race, they recently dug a tunnel under the track between 9 & 10 so you can get in and out during a race.
Nice! Definitely an upgrade.
This is super cool I grew up in Ponca and never knew this .. nice little history trip!!
I flipped an MG Midget END-OVER-END in Ponca, 'round the park! Just a SCCoA weekender race, but fun. When I switched to a FIAT X1/9, it was REALLY FUN! 80 MPH racing, but I ran away from the MG's, Bug-eyed Sprites and V-Dubs at Hallet. I could never get enough people interested in a "Formula Toyota 1.8L" class using the I-4 20R engine in the "kit cars". I think the cost of racing slicks became too steep. Breaking parts of a 20R or it's driveline shouldn't have been an issue @ 135HP level.
Grew up in Ponca City and this was an annual event for my family. Thought it was my dad’s idea but learned it was my mom who loved fast cars. She’d get us up early to get prime spot usually at end of main straight. Great memories thanks for this video.
When I was a teen my father and I visited this track. While maneuvering for a good look at the track i suddenly found myself right behind Paul Newman and James Garner. They were both considering going racing at that time. I nearly swallowed my tongue.
Lol, that's awesome. Definitely sounds like one of those, "is this real life" moments.
Wow! I've lived most of my life in Oklahoma, and I never knew this!
This was a yearly ritual for me, had to get the wheat cut before the 4th. so I could go to the races. Such a fun weekend watching friends race and the spectacle of the event. The 70's was such a great time to be alive, lot less rules and a free spirit were the theme. This is the event that got me hooked on Alfa Romeo's, had a 1974 GTV 2000 and still have a 1991 spider. Watching them spar with the the 911's was magic.
In late 1960s and then 70s female dates and I enjoyed many amatuer road races (my favorite sport) at Ponca course. Thanks for many swell memories Ponca folks. Fortunately, now my wife and I drive for less than an hour to greatly enjoy SCCA races at Hallett. I was able to enter Hallett track on a day many years ago when it was not open to public, with help of friend who worked there. The special event was for international great Emerson Fittipaldi's team, who rented track for him only to practice in Indy type car. Emerson was in his prime and I'll always remember being there to watch him put down super fast times on difficult course. Thanks Hallett.
I live 30 minutes north in Kansas and I had no idea of the history of that park, thank you for the input!
This would be such a beautiful bicycle road race course.
Less than a minute in and you say it was paved. Please do some basic research. It was not. My viewing stopped there. Could I believe anything else you say ?
Oxford English Dictionary definition for "paved": to cover an area of ground with a hard, flat surface of pieces of stone, concrete, or bricks. 🍫
Hey , Lap of the world What color are your wheels ?
Enkei's standard gold (on the rare occasion that they're clean).
Was just at Lake Afton yesterday miss the days of the gran prix i have a car built by an old course racer
Hey I live in Ponca City
That was an event that I always looked forward to racing. Fun times, the town was all-in! though it was kinda funny, in hindsight, to see tress "protested" by a stack of old tires...it's fun to see that I appeared in the results in the 1990 Gazette... We just don't do 'em like that any more... EDIT: RIP John Saucier. He was a mentor to me in me SSA days, and he and his wife welcomed me into their home any time I was in the area. Miss those two.
Attended this event ln 1967.
There was also a race track in mannford it’s about a hour south of Ponca city, it’s a trailer park now.
Yup. "War Bonnet". We've been there! It's a while ago, so lower production value, but you'll find it elsewhere on the channel!
@@LapoftheWorld just watch that one too…
My dad was a long time member of the SCCA here in Oklahoma. In 1960 he drove his 1956 VW Karmann-Ghia in an SCCA economy run. His wife (my mom, durhh), was his navigator and pregnant with their first child. Hot summer with no AC... he put blocks of ice in the nostril vents of the car to make the drive more tolerable for her. I remember my dad taking me to the races at Ponca twice. The first time I was so young that I only remember that I went there. The second time must have been '87 because I remember being shortly out of high school (class of '86). It was an awesome and memorable day. I got to talk to a couple of Formula V (VW) teams about building engines for their class. One notable takeaway was the last race of the day, "Showroom Stock". After a full day of unmuffled, roaring, howling or whining engines, it was almost comical contrast to hear just (relatively) quiet revving and squawking tires.
Pointless post but here in CA, I removed my wiper blades off the car when I got in 2008. Car just looks way better without them.
2008 was a good year for NSX acquisition. Bought mine that fall and drove it home from NY to TN. I was probably lucky the wipers still worked given the state of the rest of the car. Drove through a monsoon between Jersey and Pennsylvania, lol.
For what it's worth, when I used to manage a quick lube shop, we didn't stock "wiper refills" either. What we would do is simply take a "frame style" wiper blade of 1 inch too long and pull the rubber/stiffener out of it and snip off the inch on the end that had the groove in it to hold it in place on the old frame.
this track wont pop up on google maps
Possibly not on Google, but I've added the pin to my own map that I've curated of every road racing track in the world - www.lapoftheworld.com/the-map/
This made a lot of sense. I always rely on the hydrophobic protectants but I should probably invest in good wipers too.
Not a stupid video by any means so thanks. Never had the problem with OEM parts however the car only occasionally gets caught in the rain.
I like the look of the oem wiper spoiler it’s very 90’s Honda IMO. I know on most cars I’ve owned when I take the wipers off there is faint lines on the glass where you’re supposed to line the wipers up. Though I can’t remember for the life of me if my NSX has them or not!
I don't know if I would know about the alignment marks as I suspect the windshield had been replaced once prior to my ownership. That glass and the current glass don't have any marks though.
I'm with you Richard. Wipers are the way to go! Crashing because you can't see (because you removed the wipers) is a stupid reason to crash.
This isn't just an NSX issue. My 8th gen Si daily has the issues as well and PIAA used to be a good solution as they had a sports wiper that had a wing on it and they worked great. Now they have moved to the aero/flex model like everyone else and they don't work that great at higher speeds. I wonder if the NSX blad would fit on the civic....
Liz's car came with some PIAA aero frames, not installed, just in the spares pile. Might've worked but also didn't want to pilfer and wasn't sure if they were really equal to the OE version not having the latter in hand at the time.
All the tuner cars in cali dont even run Wipers. I think it looks much cleaner without. I just throw the wiper in the trunk and install it with a 17mm wrench if need be. But i think I've only needed to install it once.
Yeah, not so much in the Southeast or PNW for that matter. I've driven through enough proper "toad stranglers" (local terminology)to appreciate fully functional wipers.
@@LapoftheWorld Makes all the sense
@@SleeperHonda Yeah, much as I'd love to just roll with a coating for aesthetics, it's a bad plan with as much inter-region driving as we do.
@@LapoftheWorld Imagine living in a place where you could drive year round, not need a spring/fall tire, and you could take your wipers off. Car stuff makes me want to move out of the midwest more than anything else.
@@JacobMueller I get away with no winter tires at least in Tennessee. Not worth it for the like 3-4 total weeks of actual winter conditions. No chance of doing without wipers or just washing it a couple of times per season.
Never knew this either. I'm about an hour or so away. Good video. Subscribed for more!
I drove this track in the late '90's during a One Lap of America. It was terrible! And clearly before its rehabilitation, both the track surface and the drop offs into the cow pastures, if you managed to visit places other than the asphalt. The commentary I wrote on the One Lap website was that: There were so may patches and bumps that the square area of the patches seemed to exceed the unpatched areas and that the vertical deflection of the shocks on any lap likely were longer than the length of the track. I also suggested that the restrooms could be found by blindfolding oneself and relying on one's nose for their location. I'm glad to see it's been resurrected!
Yeah, I hadn't been there myself prior to the recent work, but I'd seen videos from some local BMW guys who'd done races there in the late '00s and may or may not have needed dental work afterwards. 'Definitely way better as of my visit.
Later cars went WAY too fast for the facilities.
I was born in 1961 and grew up in and around the Tulsa, OK area, about 1 1/2 hours from Ponca City, and I had no idea! What a cool piece of history I knew nothing about! Thank you!
Wait, the speedometer is accurate on your Gallardo?
Oh heck no! It's an easy 5mph pessimistic. That said, with respect to time to speed, if all I'm looking for is improvement and not outright accuracy it doesn't matter. So as of this video it was quicker from indicated 40 to indicated 60 than it was prior. Still, this video was somewhat mooted when at least one of the fuel pumps took a dump in 2023. Clearly layers of shenanigans with the fuel/air system afoot.
Funny as hell! I would have given the finger to the stubborn nut.
too much talk
I think I've gotten better in the subsequent 4 years at least 😉. Seat covers are still holding up in case you were curious. 4yrs ~40k miles later.
It’s so crazy that i as an Okie was unaware of this awesome history. I live about 10 minutes from Hallett and im set to do the Extreme Experience next time its here