After weeks of breathless promotion, a bit of gnashing of teeth and the random cat-fight among various blogs, the Cadillac CTS-V Challenge has now begun and we'll be here at Monticello Motor Club all day.

Practice is underway and so far nobody has gone off-course…yet. There will be plenty of time for that though. Lutz, being the head cheese of the company that conceived of this compelling publicity stunt, grabbed a few laps early this morning. Hey, when you are renting the track, you get to do those sort of things. Now, the civilians and blogger/media types are on the course. Oh, and it's a wet course, after a healthy rain this morning.

This could get interesting.

And, yes, that is a Mitsubishi Evo you see in the above picture. Why would an Evo run against the big, luxury/sport sedans? Well, because Mitsubishi was the only car maker to loan one of its cars to a media outlet for the event.