Right after inspecting the entries at the 6th annual Gator-O-Rama 24 Hours of LeMons at MSR Houston, we braved the chilly, fetid, swampy exhalations of the Gulf Coast in November for the very first racing session. At the end of the day, we had surprises in every of the 3 LeMons classes. Here’s what happened.
Top Class A and the whole 85-car field is the Group Blue Goose 1984 Audi 4000S Quattro. This team’s members have been competing in LeMons considering that the really earliest Texas LeMons races, and they’ve come as close as you can get to an all round win with no actually taking house the Class A trophy… more than and more than once more. Zero visits to the penalty box, zero broken components, and lap occasions practically as excellent as the quickest cars in the field the Blue Goose Audi has carried out every little thing appropriate so far and leads the field by 2 laps. Will some 12-hours-to-fix component fail on Sunday? Will a rainstorm come in and wash away the hopes of the 2-wheel-drive competition on Sunday? We’ll know tomorrow.
Correct behind the Blue Geese is a group that is spent nearly as many years in spitting distance from an overall LeMons win: the Vermont-primarily based Bert One particular and their Volvo 262C Bertone. With a mere 2 laps separating the Bertone-ized Volvo from the 4-ringed German, Group Blue Goose can’t afford a single minor mistake on Sunday.
In Class B, the previously languishing-in-obscurity Inglorious Bastards 1991 Ford Thunderbird somehow managed to scrabble its way all the way up to P9 and a 5-lap class lead.
How? Why? We can not say, but Team Speedy Monzales and their 1980 Pontiac Sunbird will be waiting for the slightest stumble on the part of the Inglorious Bastards.
For reasons nobody can recognize, The Syndicate has taken a large Class C lead with their Mercedes-Benz C107 coupe. This team won the Index of Effluency at the 2014 North Dallas Hooptie, but taking a class win seemed as far beyond their reach as is handle of the United States Senate by the Peace and Freedom Party. At this moment, though, The Syndicate owns a mighty 15-lap edge more than the nearest competitors.
That competitors is the door-manage-scraping 1993 Toyota Corolla of TGTW Offroad Racing. Yes, Class C is down to a battle in between a single of the most prestigious cocaine-dealer automobiles of the 1970s and one particular of the most depressing rental automobiles of the 1990s.
The Dodge Neon campaigned by the Street Outlaws crew did a lot much better than we anticipated (given the really low bar set by automotive Television shows in LeMons), ending the day in 58th location and with just a couple of visits to the LeMons Supreme Court’s penalty box.
Meanwhile, several teams have deposited essential engine parts upon MSR’s tarmac and have been traveling the area in search of tough-to-discover components. Escape Velocity Racing’s 1965 Dodge Dart spat a connecting rod out the side of its Slant-6’s block, but the team brought a components car: an original (if really rusty) Dodge Challenger, equipped with an allegedly very good 225-cubic-inch Leaning Tower of Power.
LeMons Legend Spank took a voyage all the way out from San Diego in order to get behind the wheel of the Austin America he Frankensteined with each other last year, but it turned out that most of the car’s elements had been stored within a toxic algae bloom for the last 13 months. We heard news that the America‘s engine fired earlier this evening, so we might see it on the track on Sunday.
We can not inform you what will come about on Sunday, but you can verify in later and discover out!
LeMons Houston Day 1: Audi 4000, Ford Thunderbird, Mercedes-Benz 450SLC Top Classes
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