Once the car started running into the 11's we sorta stopped driving it to the local track, 75 miles one way and got a trailer. More than once we drove to the track, ran lo/mid 12's on the saturday then drove 50 miles one way to a cruise, back to the track for a BBQ and beers and watch the sun come up. Man I usually felt rough racing on the sunday
250 miles and 20+ passes a weekend @ 10mpg, it was expensive but memorable.
Car is still street legal and putts to the local cruise but we trailer it to the tracks now. A 200mile trip usually takes 5 hours due to traffic, crappy roads, roadworks etc and I've broke it a few times now. We hope to get another car which will be a mild street stripper 528ci and hopefully running 11's. Really miss those "road trips"