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Great American Day 3: Indianapolis - Tulsa

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

While the Miami starters are heading to San Antonio, the New York starters final checkpoint is the “Oil Capital of the World” Tulsa, Oklahoma. That means for the participans a 1025 km (635 miles) long trip.

Bad news from Team Durham on the ‘New York Run’. It seams that one of the drivers tried to run-out […]

The Great American Run Day 4: Tulsa - Denver

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

While the drivers of the Great American Run still sleeping (hopefully ;-)), we are proud to announce you the next final checkpoint of the ‘New York’ Runners: Denver. The City and County of Denver is the capital and the most populous city of the U.S. state of Colorado. Denver is located in the South Platte […]

Great American Run: Day 3 by Molly Saleen

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Enjoy this second write-up by Molly Saleen, daughter of the famous car tuner Steve Saleen, about her second leg from New Orleans to San Antonio!

Well, today started off not being so good. We were one of the last cars to leave this time and about 5 miles into the rally…. I was rear ended […]

Great American Run Day 4: San Antonio - Tucson

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Today is going to be the longest and hardest leg for the Great American Runners, who started in Miami. The final destination for the participants is Tucson, Arizona. It is located 118 miles (188 km) southeast of Phoenix and 60 miles (98 km) north of the Mexican border.
Final checkpoint is JW Marriott Starr Pass Resort […]

Great American Run - New York Day 1 Photos!

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

We are proud to present you some first pics from the start in New York! Thanks a lot to Team #118 VR - Jack and Peter for sharing them!
More updates and pictures in our Cannonball forum!

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Great American Run - Indianapolis Day 1 Photos!

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

The New York starters drove on the first day to Indianapolis and had the rare chance to make some laps on the Indianapolis Speed Way. Again many thanks to Team #118 VR - Jack and Peter for sharing this great pictures.

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Great American Run - ‘on the road to Tulsa’ Day 3 Photos!

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

On day 3 the New York starters of the Great American Run headed to Tulsa and finally the impressive Vanishing Point Supra, one of the fastest Supras in the world arrived! Not street legal in the U.S. and had to spent 5 days in customs…
Many thanks to Team #118 VR - Jack and Peter […]

The Great American Run - Day 2 & 3 Photos

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Yesterday we drove from New Orleans to San Antonio. We actually took a little detour to the Houston Space Center to get an astronaut crash course and that made the leg almost 600 miles for us. Today we drove from San Antonio to Tucson in Arizona. Below you can find some of the photos we […]

The Great American Run - Update 1 by Team Fluge

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Enjoy this write-up by Team Fluge about the Day 1: New York - Indianapolis!
Nick Fluge and Bill Lowblad driving the FGA Saleen “Bad Boyâ€? Mustang and the Perlinger sisters in the FGA Bentley GT, began the Great American Run week by arriving in New York, dealing with Paparazzi, and even attending a GAR party […]

The Great American Run: Update 2 by Team Fluge

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

We are proud to present you the second update by Team Fluge about the second leg from Indianapolis to Tulsa:
For more updates please visit our Cannonball Forum.
Entering the state of Oklahoma at speeds of 150 mph - the state police cars showed patience waiting for the FGA saleen after Fluge stopped to fill-up the ultimate […]

The Great American Run Day 5: Denver/Tucson - Las Vegas

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Finally the day has come: the New York starters and Miami starters meet on the street! Final destination is ‘Viva’ Las Vegas. Las Vegas (often abbreviated as Vegas) is the most populous city in the state of Nevada, United States, the seat of Clark County, and an internationally known vacation, shopping, entertainment and gambling […]

Great American Run: Day 4 by Molly Saleen

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Another great write up of Molly Saleen about the third leg from San Antonio to Tucson:
Well today was ticket day!!! Team Molly-pop was pulled over in Texas for speeding. The report: 89 mph in a 70! We were in the process of talking our way out of the ticket by telling the officer that we […]

The Great American Run - Molly Saleen vid - New Orleans to San Antonio

Thursday, August 2nd, 2007

Enjoy this video about the second leg of the Great American Run by Molly Saleen! Thanks to Molly-Pop.com!
For more infos and updates join our Cannonball forum.

The Great American Run: Update 3 by Team Fluge

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Enjoy this write-up by Team Fluge about the third leg: Tulsa - Denver!

Fluge started off first leg flying through Oklahoma averaging over 120 mph, in order to build time advantage for slight detour to get new cell phone. (Yes Fluge dropped his old one into a bucket of champagne the night before).
In route to Verizon […]

The Great American Run Day 6: Las Vegas - Los Angeles

Friday, August 3rd, 2007

Today is already the last day of the phantastic Great American Run. Today the participants start from Las Vegas to reach the final important checkpoint the Willow Springs Raceway! Until this checkpoint the time counts for the 61 miles average. The winner of this is going to win a brand new Bad Boy Saleen Mustang […]