Day 7
The Great Race with Toyota and RACER: Day 7
Friday, 24 June 2016
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrnIBBuQsGE
To celebrate 50 years of the Corolla, RACER has teamed up with Toyota to compete in the 2016 Hemmings Great Race with a first-generation 1970 Corolla sedan. 13-time X Games BMX Vert gold medal winner and SCORE Baja 1000 class winner Jamie Bestwick is the driver, while RACER's editor-in-chief Laurence Foster takes on navigating duties for the nine-day marathon.
Joining them on Day 7's route from Rapid City to Sioux Falls, S.D., via Badlands National Park, is musician Mike Eldred, the leader of the renowned and eponymous blues outfit, the Mike Eldred Trio. And just in case the Corolla crew are getting a little road weary, he's brought his guitar and amp along for the ride.
Starting in San Rafael, Calif., June 18, and ending in Moline, Ill., June 26, the Great Race is for cars built before 1972. It takes in nearly 2,500 miles of America's most scenic highways and byways in a test of driving and navigating skill. Outright speed doesn't win the event – instead, each competitive section has to be completed in a pre-set time. Finish a section early or late and you'll earn time penalties, so every second really does count.
