In a strange turn of events for LeMons staffers, whose tips are normally so brilliant, Sunday morning’s crank-Le Mans-start off competitors did not go particularly smoothly. The race pitted the 2 crank-startable cars in the field against each other (Group Tinworm’s Humber Super Snipe and Michael “Spank” Spangler’s Renault 10/Dacia 1100)—done in classic Le Mans style, the 2 drivers were essential to run to their automobiles, cranks in hand, begin the engines, and drive off.
Not 4 feet into the contest, Tinworm captain Alan Frisbie received a healthy forearm shiver from Spank, which right away sent Frisbie to the pavement.
The silver lining for Frisbie, who broke the fall primarily with his left thumb, was that he wasn’t impaled via the neck by a Humber Super Snipe hand crank on the way down.
And really, any day exactly where that does not occur is a great one particular.
Elsewhere, the Judge-Phil-significantly less Penalty Box (His Honor Judge Phil had to return to the Bay Area for family members causes) was filled with a team of replacement enforcers.
Very effectively-thought-out backup systems are an integral element of the LeMons organization—when Judge Phil stepped away, a crack team of experienced lawmen seamlessly took more than. The group, which included Evil Genius Racing owner John Pagel, auto bloggers Jason Torchinsky and Tim Odell, and anorexia survivor Shawn Rodgers, quickly applied their own flavor of LeMons justice.
When a driver of the Mad Taxi RX7 was possibly behaving too aggressively on track, Torchinsky pulled him aside for a spa treatment—so as not also be also cruel, he provided cost-free components for a relaxing facial.
At the checkered flag, it was Cerveza Racing cruising to however another Class A and general win, the Super Troopers scoring the Class B honors, and the Pinewood Dirtbags Chevy Luv posting an unlikely come-from-behind win in Class C.
Well, possibly it wasn’t all that unlikely for the Dirtbags, as element of their path to glory involved overtaking the K-Car and one particular of the worst Porsche 914s to ever appear on a road course. Still, for a truck that has such a high probability of bursting into flames at any second (the identically ready sister truck to the winning entry certainly did suddenly burst into flames midway by way of the Saturday session).
Class B was only element of the story for the Super Troopers, whose event-long dedication to their theme earned the group its first Organizers’ Decision trophy.
Saturday’s street-automobile-into-race-automobile engine swap proved to be a lasting repair, as the OMShenanigans BMW 7-series completed the event with a blown oil cooler hose as the only hiccup in the repair. Given that this technique involved putting the street automobile on the trailer and driving the race automobile a number of hundred miles back home soon after the race, the team was also rewarded with a Heroic Repair trophy.
The grand prize in all of LeMons, the Index of Effluency, came down to a heated battle between the extremely same 2 entries in the ill-fated hand-crank Le Mans commence challenge: the Humber of Group Tinworm and Spank’s Idioti Curse o Masina Pentru Idioti.
Amazingly, the pair finished right subsequent to 1 yet another in the final standings at P72 and P73, with the Humber nipping the Renault by just 2 laps.
Eventually, Spank’s inspired use of farm animals to full his theme wound up getting the distinction, and the Renault group went residence with the IoE trophy.
To avoid sending Humber captain Alan home with only a bruised (or dislocated, or whatever) thumb to show for his work, he was awarded Much better Luck Subsequent Time honors.
When 2 vehicles that have no organization getting anyplace close to a road course handle mid-pack benefits in a grueling hot-climate endurance race, it’s very good sport to scan the vehicles that lost to such ridiculous entries. In no specific order: Porsche 944, BMW E30, BMW E36, Mazda RX7, Audi A4, Mazda Miata, VW GTI, Acura Integra, Mustang, Camaro. So, while the uninitiated might look at Cerveza’s dominance and conclude that a BMW is the ticket to LeMons glory, it’s equally or probably far more most likely that you’ll bring a completely sweet Bimmer that winds up staring at a set of Super Snipe taillights when the checkered flag falls. And that’s not even mentioning the vehicle that went by means of tech filled with chickens.
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