He sold the car, swapped his city-centre flat for a cabin near his parents, concentrated on music and meditation, and began hanging out with his former Tradedoubler employer Martin Lorentzon, who was equally disillusioned.
However raw pace, as ever in Endurance racing, is not the only factor and the petrol-driven Toyota had pitted four and five, respectively, laps ahead of the two chasing Audis which left the No1 and the No7 cars swapping the lead during pit stops throughout the race as Audi looked to run longer stints and make one less top than their rivals.
4-7 -- Fall Carlisle Collector Car Swap Meet and Corral, at the Carlisle, Pa., fairgrounds.
The campaign, she said, had originally been called "Car Swap," but the title was changed to reflect the breadth of the effort, which included trucks.
A ceremony earlier this month at the Fall Carlisle Collector Car Swap Meet and Corral in Carlisle, Pa., included the same Pontiac Safari that inspired the stamp design.
Of course, the N.C.A.A. bureaucrats could have recognized the Barkley car swap for what it was, a violation only in the most punitive interpretation of vaguely written rules.
My Banana Chute adventure — a late-January ski date with a group of locals — started with a car swap, Mr. Robinson abandoning his station wagon and jumping in the back seat of a friend's Subaru to drive to Snowbasin.
For nearly three weeks, N.C.A.A. investigators have investigated everything from a car swap between Erick Barkley and a family friend to whether the player had improper dealings with "street agents" who paid his tuition at a prep school in Maine.
The N.C.A.A. inquiry continues as investigators look beyond car swaps and prep school tuition -- the violations that cost Barkley three games -- and into whether agents or representatives of agents as well as boosters have too much access to the basketball program.
