Following 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 1st racing session. At the end of the day, we had surprises in each and every of the 3 LeMons classes. Here’s what happened.
Leading Class A and the whole 85-vehicle field is the Group Blue Goose 1984 Audi 4000S Quattro. This team’s members have been competing in LeMons considering that the very earliest Texas LeMons races, and they’ve come as close as you can get to an all round win with no really taking house the Class A trophy… more than and more than once again. Zero visits to the penalty box, zero broken parts, and lap times nearly as excellent as the quickest vehicles in the field the Blue Goose Audi has accomplished almost everything right 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.
Appropriate behind the Blue Geese is a team that’s spent nearly as a lot of years in spitting distance from an general LeMons win: the Vermont-based Bert One and their Volvo 262C Bertone. With a mere 2 laps separating the Bertone-ized Volvo from the 4-ringed German, Team Blue Goose cannot afford a single minor error 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 component of the Inglorious Bastards.
For reasons no one can comprehend, The Syndicate has taken a huge 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 manage of the United States Senate by the Peace and Freedom Celebration. At this moment, even though, The Syndicate owns a mighty 15-lap edge more than the nearest competitors.
That competition is the door-handle-scraping 1993 Toyota Corolla of TGTW Offroad Racing. Yes, Class C is down to a battle among one particular of the most prestigious cocaine-dealer cars of the 1970s and 1 of the most depressing rental vehicles of the 1990s.
The Dodge Neon campaigned by the Street Outlaws crew did a lot greater than we expected (given the quite low bar set by automotive Tv 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, numerous teams have deposited critical engine parts upon MSR’s tarmac and have been traveling the area in search of hard-to-locate elements. Escape Velocity Racing’s 1965 Dodge Dart spat a connecting rod out the side of its Slant-6’s block, but the group brought a parts automobile: an original (if quite rusty) Dodge Challenger, equipped with an allegedly great 225-cubic-inch Leaning Tower of Energy.
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 final year, but it turned out that most of the car’s elements had been stored inside a toxic algae bloom for the final 13 months. We heard news that the America‘s engine fired earlier this evening, so we may possibly see it on the track on Sunday.
We can not inform you what will occur on Sunday, but you can verify in later and discover out!
LeMons Houston Day 1: Audi 4000, Ford Thunderbird, Mercedes-Benz 450SLC Major Classes
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