The initial 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 high in the standings, a lot of broken engine parts on the tarmac, and a improvement we do not see at numerous races: no German automobiles in the best 10 at the finish of the day. In reality, you have to go down to P13 ahead of you spot any auto that would make an oompah band strike up Deutschland Über Alles (the NYC Quickest Taxi BMW E30 325i), and even that group is just barely ahead of the wretched Scirocco of Rabbit Pellets Racing. Let’s take a appear at the class leaders as of Saturday evening.
Top 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 don’;t forget (which ranges from 5 years to numerous hours, based on how significantly starter fluid we’ve been huffing), and they’ve spent really a bit of race time with 1 or each of their vehicles in P1 or P2… however the Kops have never ever taken an all round LeMons win.
Component of the explanation the Keystone Kops haven’t taken residence any Class A trophies is that team captain Irv Stein, aka “Crazy Irv, the Volvo Dealmaker,” tends to get a tiny excited after the team claws its way to P1, and that generally leads to a check out to a time-consuming visit to the penalty box. Will that happen this weekend? We’ll uncover out on Sunday!
Correct behind Crazy Irv’s team is yet another Volvo 240, this one the wagon of Swedish Mafia Racing. This team is a single of the least most likely to screw up and be forced to execute The Robot Dance Penalty for the enjoyment of the LeMons Supreme Court, which signifies that the members of the Keystone Kops won’t sleep nicely tonight. Volvo 240s win a lot of crapcan races in their native land, and we anticipate to see that happening more than here as effectively.
Leading Class B, we’ve got the New Englanders of the Massholes and their Ford Escort ZX2. The Massholes have been racing in this region for years and have never ever had a class win, so maybe this could be their weekend. Nonetheless, when the driver of a auto 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 significantly, a lot longer than your standard initial-pay a visit to-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 a lot of times, but some mechanical failure usually knocks the car out of the operating, normally about the time when the guy at begin/finish is starting to limber up his checkered-flag-waving arm. If the Massholes black-flag their way out of the Class B lead on Sunday, the pressure will be on Rapidly Al’s Race Group to preserve all their important mechanical bits in working order for the rest of the day.
The Pontiac Fiero has proven to be one of the worst possible vehicles for this sort of racing, which doesn’t cease LeMons teams from continuing to develop and race the items. In this case, even though, items are operating out fairly well for DeCuzzi Racing Gulf a Fiero, simply because the team is major Class C and sitting at P48 overall.
The relentless pursuer of the Fiero, the Prompt Crucial Capri, will never rest until it sits atop Class C. Yes, these 2 V6-powered machines will battle to the final connecting rod among them.
Meanwhile, of course, several automobiles have blowed up, crashed out, completed fell apart, or otherwise stopped running, and those teams will devote Saturday night feverishly wielding hammers and rolls of duct tape in attempts to get their cars ready for Sunday morning’s green flag. Check in later and uncover out what occurs subsequent!
Photographs by John Abronski and Matt Adair
24 Hours of LeMons New Jersey Day 1: Volvo, Ford, Pontiac Leading Classes
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