Loring was a blast! Everybody was great! Staff, participants, Toys for Tots, friendily and happy bunch. Staff was extremely professional and had great patience to answer 100 rookie questions. I did 7 runs, 1st 2 were rookie runs (125 and 150). I was still nervous so took it a little easy on #3, did 168, then 172 on #4. Each run was better up to 173.537 on the 6th. Last run was slightly slower.
Had a lot of trouble hooking up, could not do WOT until 3rd gear.
All in all, I am happy with 173 1-mile in a stock M6 Challenger. Now I have to figure out what to do for next year!
Thanks for the help!