We inspected the automobiles on Saturday, and on Sunday we ran the very first session of the Excellent Effort Grand Prix, the 2015 season opener for the 24 Hours of LeMons. The struggles for the lead in all 3 classes (A, B, and C) had been closely fought all day, and a lot of teams ended the day in contention for a class win. Here’s what happened.
Class C is where the LeMons Supreme Court puts the most velocity- and/or reliability-challenged machinery, and Class C cars are the nearest to our hearts. We put the Aqua Volvo 242 (formerly the I Cannot Think It is Not Much better car) in C but once more, and this time the team managed to maintain their auto pointed in the right path and with practically all its parts nonetheless attached for the entire day. When the checkered flag waved at dusk, the Aqua Volvo held a 6-lap lead in class. That’s not a massive lead for Class C, where issues have a tendency to come about at a deliberate pace and routine pit stops often turn into engine-swap sessions, but Group Aqua Volvo will take it.
The Aqua Volvo is becoming pursued by the vehicle whose team captain believed up their new group name: the -ing With Extra Poor Suggestions Austin Mini, which has spent its LeMons profession chewing through each BMC A engine obtainable in California. For reasons no one understands, the tiny purple automobile has not scattered any English connecting rods on the tarmac but. Considering that the Aqua Volvo and -ing With Additional Bad Ideas group pit with each other and share supplies, their rivalry might lack intensity.
To give you a sense of how close all the Class C teams appear to be with a single yet another, the current engine in the -ing With Extra Poor Concepts was loaned to the group by Spank, LeMons Legend and Certified Madman. Possibly not coincidentally, the BMC A-engine-powered Cat 416F Backhoe Loader driven by Spank (primarily based on the world’s most cruelly violated Mini Moke) finished Saturday’s race session a mere 5 laps behind the Mini. Spank place a 21-gallon fuel cell in his fuel-sipping Caterpillar and drove it for one thing like 6 straight hours… prior to running out of gas and losing his second-in-class spot even though waiting for a tow off the track. We appear forward to seeing how the Class C war sorts out on Monday.
The Class B lead is becoming held by John Galt Racing and their BMW 2002. This team has been attempting for a Class B win for years and has yet to pull off the feat. On Monday, they’ll start off on the identical lap as their closest pursuer.
That pursuer is the ONSET/Tetanus West Chevrolet Cavalier, which spent some group in the Class B lead but then had to devote the final hour or so on Sunday creeping around the track with metal-on-metal brakes. The 2002 and Cavalier are quite evenly matched in the lap-time department, so this battle ought to keep close all day tomorrow.
If both the BMW and the Chevy break down and/or get black-flagged out of contention (which, based on the past experiences of each teams, could take place), the Harold and Maude “Jaguar E-Type” (truly a Datsun 280Z) of Team 5150 sits just 4 laps behind its Class B rivals.
Class A, exactly where the quick (i.e., not-so-intriguing) LeMons cars compete, has a familiar group at the best proper now: Eyesore Racing and their wretched-hunting-but-successful “ghettocharged” Mazda Miata. Eyesore hasn’t taken a Class A LeMons win considering that the 2012 Sears Pointless race, but they’ve come close numerous times and stay a large threat to any would-be overall LeMons winners.
A single lap behind the Eyesore Miata is the Hella Shitty Racing BMW E30 3-series. Hella Shitty Racing, greatest recognized for their anti-sexist grid boys and the worst-sounding Porsche 911 race auto in the universe, have never taken an overall 24 Hours of LeMons win, so we can assume the group will spend the evening prank-calling Eyesore Racing’s motel rooms to ask if they have Prince Albert in a can.
The group that has won the most California LeMons races in the final year has been Porch Racing, now identified as Rely. This race, they ended the very first day a mere 3 laps behind the leader and 2 laps back of the P2 team, so Eyesore Racing and Hella Shitty Racing have much more than just each other to worry about.
How will it all sort out? Come back later and you will locate out!
LeMons San Francisco Day 1: Caterpillar 416F Backhoe Pursuing Volvo 242 In Class C, We Do not Genuinely Care About Something Else
