The 1st day of racing at the second annual There Goes the Neighborhood 24 Hours of LeMons is in the books, and we’ve got a lot of familiar faces higher in the standings, a lot of broken engine parts on the tarmac, and a development we do not see at numerous races: no German vehicles in the best 10 at the end of the day. In reality, you have to go down to P13 just before you spot any auto that would make an oompah band strike up Deutschland Über Alles (the NYC Fastest Taxi BMW E30 325i), and even that group is just barely ahead of the wretched Scirocco of Rabbit Pellets Racing. Let’s take a look at the class leaders as of Saturday night.
Leading all 132 entries plus Class A is the Ford 302-powered Volvo 242 of the Keystone Kops. The Keystone Kops have been racing a pair of Volvo 240s at East Coast LeMons events for as lengthy as we can remember (which ranges from 5 years to numerous hours, based on how considerably starter fluid we’ve been huffing), and they’ve spent really a bit of race time with a single or both of their automobiles in P1 or P2… however the Kops have never taken an overall LeMons win.
Portion of the explanation the Keystone Kops haven’t taken residence any Class A trophies is that group captain Irv Stein, aka “Crazy Irv, the Volvo Dealmaker,” tends to get a tiny excited when the group claws its way to P1, and that normally leads to a pay a visit to to a time-consuming check out to the penalty box. Will that occur this weekend? We’ll find out on Sunday!
Correct behind Crazy Irv’s team is one more Volvo 240, this 1 the wagon of Swedish Mafia Racing. This group is 1 of the least likely to screw up and be forced to carry out The Robot Dance Penalty for the enjoyment of the LeMons Supreme Court, which signifies that the members of the Keystone Kops won’t sleep effectively tonight. Volvo 240s win a lot of crapcan races in their native land, and we expect to see that happening more than here as effectively.
Top Class B, we’ve got the New Englanders of the Massholes and their Ford Escort ZX2. The Massholes have been racing in this area for years and have never had a class win, so probably this could be their weekend. Nonetheless, when the driver of a automobile that is a bit on the quickly side for Class B makes a error and visits the LeMons Supreme Court for a penalty, said penalty will take much, much longer than your typical very first-check out-to-the-Penalty-Box occasion.
Not far behind the Massholes is the— you guessed it— Volvo of Quickly Al’s Race Group. Quickly Al’s (as in Al Einstein) Volvo 745 has come agonizingly close to a Class B win numerous instances, but some mechanical failure always knocks the vehicle out of the operating, generally about the time when the guy at commence/finish is beginning to limber up his checkered-flag-waving arm. If the Massholes black-flag their way out of the Class B lead on Sunday, the stress will be on Fast Al’s Race Group to maintain all their crucial mechanical bits in working order for the rest of the day.
The Pontiac Fiero has established to be one particular of the worst possible cars for this sort of racing, which doesn’t quit LeMons teams from continuing to create and race the factors. In this case, though, factors are working out quite properly for DeCuzzi Racing Gulf a Fiero, since the team is top Class C and sitting at P48 general.
The relentless pursuer of the Fiero, the Prompt Critical Capri, will never rest till it sits atop Class C. Yes, these 2 V6-powered machines will battle to the last connecting rod in between them.
Meanwhile, of course, numerous vehicles have blowed up, crashed out, done fell apart, or otherwise stopped running, and those teams will commit Saturday evening feverishly wielding hammers and rolls of duct tape in attempts to get their automobiles prepared for Sunday morning’s green flag. Verify in later and uncover out what happens next!
Photographs by John Abronski and Matt Adair
24 Hours of LeMons New Jersey Day 1: Volvo, Ford, Pontiac Major Classes
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