12 Ağustos 2014 Salı

24 Hours of LeMons New Jersey: The Winners!





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At the second annual There Goes the Neighborhood 24 Hours of LeMons (and our sixth check out to New Jersey Motorsports Park given that our 1st race there in 2011), we saw several movie-themed teams and our very first 4-billion-lap penalty on Friday, German vehicles pushed entirely out of the upper reaches of the standings on Saturday, and a bunch of teams go property with trophies on Sunday. Here’s what occurred.
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Whilst cold, hard statistics prove that the Volvo 240 is the best 24 Hours of LeMons automobile, and numerous of the beloved Swedish bricks have finished in the leading 5 of the standings in our races, only 2 have ever stood at the top of the heap when the checkered flag waved: the Mustard Yellow Volvo Doing 45 In the Quickly Lane, which took the win at the 2009 Buttonwillow Histrionics with the most dramatic finish in LeMons history… and the winner of the 2014 There Goes the Neighborhood race on Sunday: the Keystone Kops and their ’79 Volvo 242.
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The Kops have been around given that the very early days of the 24 Hours of LeMons, generating their debut at the first-ever East Coast event and the eighth LeMons race all round (we’re now on #117): the 2008 New England 24 Hours of LeMons. They run a 244 sedan with a turbocharged Volvo engine and a 242 coupe with a Ford 302 swap, and they’ve had at least one automobile in the single-digit portion of the standings in just about every race considering that they started. Lastly, the 2-door “Jew-Wop-E” (so named, in quite East Coast style, because all of its drivers are of Jewish or Italian ancestry) managed to avoid blowing up and/or obtaining buried in black flags at a race, and the Keystone Cops took the Class A and overall wins by 4 laps over the Toyota Solara of Team FRS’s Ugly Uncle. After 6 years, the Kops have carried out it!
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In Class B, we have another Volvo feelgood story: Quick Al’s Race Group, running a Volvo 745 with automatic transmission, had been pursing an elusive class win for years— maybe not quite as many years as the Keystone Kops, but a lengthy, extended time.
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Every race, it seemed, F.A.R.T. would hold off the Class B challengers by a lap or 2 for most of the weekend, then throw a connecting rod or scatter a transmission or melt the wiring harness (the Volvo 740 has been far less dependable than its 240 predecessor in our races). Then, ultimately, the Quickly Al’s wagon squeezed previous the other Class B cars and stayed there, taking the win by a not-so-comfy few hundred yards over the Massholes and their Ford Escort. Congratulations, Quick Al’s Racing Group!
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Class C went to the team DeCuzzi Racing Gulf a Fiero and their ’86 Pontiac Fiero. This vehicle set down some great lap occasions, managing to keep away from the standard Fiero fate of blowing up and requiring in depth and time-consuming repairs, and completed P35 overall and 10 laps up in its class.
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The Most Heroic Repair trophy was awarded to Scuderia Regurgito (Dom’s Racing Group) for repairs created to the completely destroyed engine in their 1992 BMW 325i. In the words of LeMons Supreme Court Justice Matt Adair: “Car is smoking massively on track, they pull over and attempt to turn it off. It won’t turn off. Track goes red flag although it’s sorted out and towed into the paddock (even though operating). They end up cutting the battery cables…still operating. They reduce the alternator wire…still running. They reduce the wires to the coil packs…still running. Ultimately they reduce all the wires to the harness…still operating. Ultimately they empty a fire extinguisher into the intake and it shuts off. That night, they source a new motor, set up it, re-wire the automobile, and somehow make it back out and run most of Sunday.”
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Often the I Got Screwed award goes to a team… and often it goes to an person. In this case, Team G-Tron hired a nearby mechanic named Mattie to prep a trio of matching 1995 Audi 90s for the race. When the cars showed up for the inspections, they failed the gear check on numerous counts apiece, and so Mattie had to be hired to come back to the track and thrash the automobiles into sufficiently very good shape to pass the tech inspection. Then he had to invest the weekend in an Audi-wrenching frenzy to maintain the cars (sort of) running, even though the racers— described by Chief Perp Jay Lamm as “a group of Audi Club D-bags”— hovered over him. For this, Mattie brings residence the I Got Screwed trophy.
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For the Judges’ Choice award, how could the LeMons Supreme Court offer this trophy to any group that didn’t race a 2000 Nissan Quest minivan? Sputnik Racing— yes, the exact same Sputnik Racing that shepherded the Worst Automobile In LeMons History for much of its travels about the continent last year— pleased the judges extremely a lot with their choice of racin’ machinery.
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The Game of Crumplezones Acura Integra and team costumes earned the Organizer’s Decision trophy, for clear reasons.
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For each race, we produce a special regional and/or race-particular trophy. This time that trophy was the Best Non-Team Team Theme, for this extremely precise “London Bus” constructed by a group of race spectators.
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The prime prize of LeMons racing, the Index of Effluency, goes to the group that achieves far beyond any affordable expectations with a automobile that never belonged anywhere close to a race track. In this case, Team Prompt Crucial Racing managed to flog their 1974 Mk1 Ford Capri (number 235, naturally) all the way up to P44 (out of 126 entries starting the race), practically taking the Class C prize in the process. Regardless of what European Capri fans may inform you, this is one of the worst attainable automobiles to enter in a LeMons race (specifically with the deeply flawed Cologne V6, which is what powers the Prompt Essential auto), and a practically-in-the-top-third finish for this auto is therefore an astounding achievement. Properly completed, Prompt Crucial Racing!

Photographs by Matt Adair, John Abronski, Murilee Martin, Kim Harmon, and Nick Pon







24 Hours of LeMons New Jersey: The Winners!

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