The 24 Hours of LeMons series is following up our check out to an old familiar track in California with our first-ever trip to the legendary Sebring International Raceway. It is hot and muggy and buggy right here, and the Florida summer season weather coupled with the vacation weekend have chased away all but the most devoted racers with a mere 30 teams, we’ve got the smallest automobile count because the notorious New Orleans 2011 race. These that have opted to brave the mid-90s temperatures and 100% humidity, nevertheless, tend to be the hardest of the difficult core, the racers who believe nothing at all of overnight engine swaps and paddock cuisine. This is our initial trip to Florida given that the legendary New Year’s Eve 2010 race in Palm Beach, and we’re expecting a great weekend. Let’s see who’s here!
The RC Spiders, who have become the LeMons team to beat in the southeastern portion of the nation, have brought their Mercedes-Benz 190 2.3-16. The Spiders got the most laps at the Southern Discomfort race in May, the ‘Shine Nation Classic in February, and a pair of LeMons races in 2013. Confident, they slipped their automobile via a loophole by promoting off Cosworth-only interior parts to get their Benz below the $ 500 limit, but the genuine purpose they hold winning has more to do with their mistake-free team organization than their lap occasions. The LeMons Supreme Court assigned a 5-lap handicap to the Spiders this time, due to their shark-in-the-aquarium advantage in this small field, so we’ll see how long it requires them to overcome that gap.
The Cannonball Bandits have dragged their Vortect 5300-swapped Toyota Supra all the way from the San Francisco Bay Location, and the team’s drivers hope that their Toyota’s impressive energy-to-weight ratio will finally allow them to roar to a extended-sought-soon after victory.
The Rolling Chicane Honda Civic group has been competing in the 24 Hours of LeMons for far more than 5 years now, and they’ve come tantalizingly close to an general win but have however to get these added handful of laps they want. Could this be their weekend?
It is not a LeMons race with no at least one particular staggeringly depreciated German luxury car, and we’ve got that.
We’ve also got one more engine compartment that looks just as cool as the 928′s, only for distinct reasons: the Chrysler Slant-Six of the Index of Effluency-winning Escape Velocity Racing 1964 Dodge Dart.
The Escape Velocity Dart has grow to be a fairly properly-sorted race vehicle throughout its last year of racing, but has but to take a Class C trophy.
This time, the Dart’s old nemesis, the Team Fairlylame 1964 Ford Fairlane, is back to challenge its exact same-year rival. The Dart emerged victorious from its final 2 battles with the 289-powered Ford, but possibly this time we’ll see the V8 beat the I6.
This may possibly be the very first LeMons race in numerous years that has just a single 302-powered Fox Ford in the lineup (although we do have a Pinto-engined Fox Mustang as effectively).
The Swamp Thang Ford Granada, winner of the Index of Effluency at the 2011 Lousiana race, is back, this time with Lincoln Versailles hood and trunk. Such class!
These LeMons 1st-timers brought a Volvo 850 Turbo, an adventurous automobile decision.
They’ll be competing in Class B against this confusingly themed Toyota Solara.
This getting Sebring, we’re pleased to announce that our race will function a Sebring-versus-Sebring race-within-a-race. Yes, 2 Chrysler Sebring race automobiles will take to the track on Saturday.
A single Sebring will be run by the legendary Speedycop and the Gang of Outlaws group, while the other flies the flag of equally legendary NSF Racing. Really, both cars failed the tech inspection, but we’re assuming that they’ll be fixed in time for racing on Saturday morning.
In honor of the extremely LeMony Chrysler Sebring, the LeMons Supreme Court has developed this “Sebribed” commemorative BRIBED stencil for the occasion, applying it with patriotic red-white-and-blue paint in honor of the vacation these days.
Tonight, numerous teams will be welding and grinding in the hotel parking lot, in preparation for the green flag on Saturday.
A certain quantity of house-value-lowering is inevitable when the 24 Hours of LeMons comes to your town, of course, but Florida ought to recover from the damage quickly enough. Verify in Saturday night to see how the initial day of racing sorts out.
LeMons Sebring Inspections: ’64 Fairlane vs ’64 Dart, Some Rapidly Automobiles, and a Pair of Chrysler Sebrings
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