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As we've seen before , pissing off your competitors in the 24 Hours of LeMons tends to backfire in dramatic fashion. Here's how it works: at the end of the first day of racing, each team votes for the team whose car they most wish to see destroyed the next day. The team with the most votes gets a date with a large piece of construction equipment. Today, the "winner" was Team Salazar Racing and their BMW 325. Make the jump to see the whole gallery and get the rest of the story. galleryPost('PeoplesCurseSouth', 9, 'Salazar Racing BMW 325 Faces The Jaws Of The Excavator'); When these guys came to us for the BS Inspection judging , we were pretty sure they were cheating like crazy on the budget numbers (hint: NASA stickers on your intentionally beater-ified BMW don't help), but that's just racing. Sure, there was some grumbling from the (allegedly) more legit BMW teams about perceived high-buck engine mods, but it was the very enthusiastic- some might...
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We're a few hours into the 24 Hours of LeMons South, and the lap leader is a team that had a really good story during the Bullshit Inspection phase... so good, in fact, that we dinged them just a single lap. We gave out a one-lap BS Penalty when we knew a team had cheated on the $500 limit in some manner, but we couldn't quite figure out exactly how. The Beertech guys had a story about how they got a '91 BMW so cheap, and we could smell the lies... but in the end we finally let them get by with their symbolic penalty- after all, what chance does a 4-banger BMW have with all those big Bavarian sixes out there? You fans of Swedish steel can rejoice, because the second-place car is a Saab 900 Turbo. Yes, those guys from Saabs Gone Wild had us believing their tales about what a hopeless rustbucket they had the misfortune to be driving and we gave them zero penalty laps. Let's see if that fickle, force-fed akvavit-burner can keep it up for two long days of racing!
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