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con Scottah ci siamo scambiati un paio di messaggi con cose EPICHE
sono oldes (ai tempi seguivamo il blog di Out Lady Of Perpetual Downforce), ma è un peccato non postarle qua
in ordine sparso
PORCH RACING
Porch Racing beat 179 competitors at the 2013 Arse Freeze-a-Palooza. It took 104 races for a Porsche to accomplish what teams running Corollas, Monte Carlos, and Saab 900s had done before
HELLA SHITTY RACING
Hella Shitty Racing Volkswagen Super Beetle (which features dual controls as well as a Subaru engine swap) somehow managed to win Class B in a LeMons race. This car had shown flashes of quickness in the past, but more often it had shown sustained explosions of horrific mechanical failure and frequent penalty-box visits.
SPANK WORTHINGTON TEAM
Ever wondered how a depressingly stock 340,000-mile 2008 Toyota Prius would perform in an endurance race? Spank Worthington and his dog, Spot found this thoroughly worn-out hybrid for sale by a private-security company, caged it, and raced it. This car turned out to be agonizingly slow on the race track, turning lap times about 30 seconds slower than the top contenders, but it didn’t break (other than some cooked brakes). It finished in P94, and earned the created-for-the-occasion Most Marin County Award.
e qua IL GENIO PIU' ASSOLUTO
In fact, the team ran two Priuses at this race; the other one was the Hell’s Treehuggers Toyohog, which features a Harley-Davidson Sportster engine swap. Thanks to a loophole in the California emission-control laws, this car is completely legal to drive on the street in California!
TEAM BACK TO THE PAST
The team that completed the most laps (winning Class A in the process) was Team Back To the Past, who drove their Nissan 300ZX to a clean, nearly black-flag-free victory. This is only the second 300ZX in history to take a LeMons win on laps (as we’ve mentioned before, the Nissan Z Car tends to be quite blowy-uppy in this series), and this out-of-nowhere win for Back To the Past is quite an accomplishment.
e queste sono quelle che vincono, quindi le più pallose
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Toyota Supra
Convention wisdom tells us that the Toyota Supra should totally dominate LeMons. After all, we’re talking Toyota reliability, sophisticated chassis technology, and a powerful L6 overhead-cam engine. We’ve seen dozens, maybe over a hundred, LeMons Supras by now, and we’ve learned that you can throw all your assumptions about the model into the nearest Dumpster. With all those teams running the Supra, precisely two of the things—one Mark II and one Mark III—have taken the win on laps in LeMons races, and one of those cars was built and raced by big-deal race shop and actual Le Mans participants Pratt & Miller. Toyotas in general have demonstrated lower-than-average reliability in the 24 Hours of LeMons (Alfa Romeos have held together much better), and the Supra teams tend to get nickel-and-dimed to death by endless problems that each take two hours to remedy. It doesn’t matter which generation of Supra we’re talking about, either; the ’95 is just as miserable as the ’84. The upshot is that driving a Supra in LeMons is about as maddening as commuting to work in a vintage Jaguar.
Volkswagen Golf GTI
Rabid fanatics of water-cooled VWs love the idea of showing the fools who drive Detroit or Japanese machinery the rear ends of their fahrvergnügen-enhanced hot hatches, and it’s true that a well-driven GTI can keep up with the fastest entries in a LeMons race. Unfortunately, the Golf in this context turns out to have so many weak points that it might as well be manufactured entirely of weak points. (The same goes for its mechanically similar cousin, the Jetta.) The engine likes to blow head gaskets and fire connecting rods through both sides of the block, although there’s always a chance the transmission disintegrates first. Don’t forget the flaky factory wiring, delicate suspension, and chassis structure that might as well be papier-mâché in a metal-on-metal on-track incident!
Any Mitsubishi Product, but especially the Starion
The least reliable marque in LeMons racing is, without a doubt, Mitsubishi. Even British Leyland and Renault products can be considered robust next to Mitsubishi cars on a LeMons track, and that includes the Chrysler-badged DSM stuff. You name it, Eclipse/Talon, Colt/Mirage, 3000GT/Stealth—it will fall apart in our races like a house of cards blasted with a leaf blower. (Note: In a winning-the-lottery-grade stroke of crazy luck, a Mirage took the win on laps in a LeMons race a few years back.) With all that, however, the Starion/Conquest manages to take Butt Turribleness to a level beyond even the wretched Cordia; in seven years of LeMons racing and 10 or so Starions, only one has managed to run more than a few dozen laps in a race. In fact, we’re going to make it a definitive statement: The Mitsubishi Starion is the worst possible choice, in the entire universe, for a 24 Hours of LeMons car
sono delle gare di 14 o 24 ore
le macchine devono costare meno di 500$ (acquisto e modifiche)
puoi comprare una macchina che costa 2000$, venderne pezzi per un ammontare di 1500$ e partecipare
gli organizzatori possono comprarti la tua macchina per 500$ alla fine dell'evento
in genere la griglia di partenza ha sulle 150 macchine
-una figura nota come "Arc Angel" salda sagome oscene di metallo sul tetto della macchina
-traverstirsi da mimi (con vernice bianca in faccia) e mimare il crimine (mime your crime)
-c'è la penalità Max Mosley SADO
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EPICO, l'ala automatica
poi c'è il team In-a-Gadda-da-Speeda
The Chit-In-Peril team has converted their Honda CRX into a member of the Chaparral “Sucker Car” family.
Team Ferdinandwertschtzungsgesellschaft:
Why build such a machine? The official story from the Ferdinandwertschtzungsgesellschafters had something to do with the fact that they have some very short drivers and some very tall drivers. Rather than rig up an adjustable-slider driver’s seat mount (like hundreds of other LeMons teams faced with the same problem in past races), they decided to take a more spirit-of-LeMons approach: two seats, one for short drivers and one for tall drivers, and two sets of controls. Problem solved!
Because Volkswagen sold plenty of Super Beetles in right-hand-drive regions, the engineers designed a steering mechanism that would share as many components as possible between the left-hand-drive and right-hand-drive cars. This means that it’s not particularly difficult to convert a left-drive car to a right-drive car, and vice versa . . . but it doesn’t mean that it’s easy to put controls on both sides. Still, the members of Team Ferdinandwertschtzungsgesellschaft weren’t afraid of a bunch of fabrication
It wasn’t long before disaster struck. The Super Beetle was the first car of the race to crap out, wheezing to a halt before reaching Turn 1, about 30 seconds into Saturday’s race session.
As so many teams do, Team Ferdinandwertschtzungsgesellschaft felt compelled to take the checkered flag. So, they waited until about ten minutes before the end of the race, hoping they’d be able to limp around the track for a couple of laps. Nope. The first car to be towed in the race was also the last car to be towed in the race. Lap total for the weekend: 10.
LeMons car-with-an-airplane-engine. The Crushed Red Pepper Toyota MR2, which boasted a 1940-vintage 540-cubic-inch, five-cylinder Kinner radial aircraft engine feeding a fantastically complicated Subaru-Mitsubishi drivetrain, had some reliability issues and is now—as you read this— undergoing an upgrade to a Boeing T50-8 turbine engine.
ma sai che non ne ho mai viste? non che ne abbia cercate tante ma tante volte nelle ricerche ho messo ordina per prezzo inferiore a quei prezzi erano solo pezzi di auto...
Auto: Fiat 600D del '64 motorizzata Moto Guzzi V1000 del '75
Team: Italian Stallions
Evento: 2010 Arse Freeze-a-Palooza, Buttonwillow Raceway Park
essendo un bicilindrico raffreddato ad aria han dovuto sperimentare diverse soluzioni (in foto si vedono due enormi snorkel sul tetto). alla fine hanno optato per due ventilatori elettrici
col risultato che il motore surriscaldava lo stesso, e dopo pochi giri hanno pure bruciato l'alternatore a causa dell'assorbimento troppo elevato
Ha concluso 105° su 173, ma vincendo il prestigioso premio dell'Index Of Effluency che viene assegnato alla vettura più pericolosa e inaffidabile che riesca a ottenere un risultato decente
Auto: Toyota MRolla (MR2 + Corolla, bimotore)
Team: Stick Figure Racing
Evento: 2011 Goin’ For Broken, Reno-Fernley Raceway (e successivi)
Il retrotreno di una MR2 saldato con l'avantreno di una Corolla AE92, e rispettivi propulsori.
Due motori, due cambi, due cruscotti, due impianti elettrici.
Guidarla è "semplice": si mette il cambio (automatico) della MR2 in D, e poi si usa il manuale della Corolla.
Partecipa tutt'ora alle competizioni, raggiungendo spesso risultati di tutto rispetto e incredibilmente con pochissimi guasti.
Chi l'ha provata dice “It feels like driving a very powerful Civic with two fat guys sitting in the back seat,”
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