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Tech inspection is over, the cars are circulating on the track for transponder tests, and the green flag is about to drop. Some teams, thinking it would be to their advantage to be among the final cars through the BS Inspection, held back until the last few minutes. Yeah, the judges will be too rushed to spot your adjustable coil-overs and suspiciously clean engine. Wrong! The real mistake, however, is made when A) the team works for a shop that builds Neon race cars and B) the team doesn't have a single scrap of documentation- fake or otherwise- to back up any claims for vehicle build costs. Obviously, they didn't read my helpful LeMons cheating tips . We took it easy on them in the lap penalty department: 50 laps. However, we decided it would be appropriate to change the Neon to a Civic, such modifications being performed by the Rally Ready crew from Austin. Lesson learned, Neon guys? We hope so! galleryPost('LT08NeonCivic', 6, 'Dodge Neon Becomes Honda Civic'...
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Tech inspection is over, the cars are circulating on the track for transponder tests, and the green flag is about to drop. Some teams, thinking it would be to their advantage to be among the final cars through the BS Inspection, held back until the last few minutes. Yeah, the judges will be too rushed to spot your adjustable coil-overs and suspiciously clean engine. Wrong! The real mistake, however, is made when A) the team works for a shop that builds Neon race cars and B) the team doesn't have a single scrap of documentation- fake or otherwise- to back up any claims for vehicle build costs. Obviously, they didn't read my helpful LeMons cheating tips . We took it easy on them in the lap penalty department: 50 laps. However, we decided it would be appropriate to change the Neon to a Civic, such modifications being performed by the Rally Ready crew from Austin. Lesson learned, Neon guys? We hope so! galleryPost('LT08NeonCivic', 6, 'Dodge Neon Becomes Honda Civic'...
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Tech inspection is over, the cars are circulating on the track for transponder tests, and the green flag is about to drop. Some teams, thinking it would be to their advantage to be among the final cars through the BS Inspection, held back until the last few minutes. Yeah, the judges will be too rushed to spot your adjustable coil-overs and suspiciously clean engine. Wrong! The real mistake, however, is made when A) the team works for a shop that builds Neon race cars and B) the team doesn't have a single scrap of documentation- fake or otherwise- to back up any claims for vehicle build costs. Obviously, they didn't read my helpful LeMons cheating tips . We took it easy on them in the lap penalty department: 50 laps. However, we decided it would be appropriate to change the Neon to a Civic, such modifications being performed by the Rally Ready crew from Austin. Lesson learned, Neon guys? We hope so! galleryPost('LT08NeonCivic', 6, 'Dodge Neon Becomes Honda Civic'...
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The 24 Hours of LeMons New England race has been on for a couple hours now, long enough for the concept of "leader" to be relevant. According to UDMan , the Kielbasa Kids Honda Civic is in first place. And- wait a second, this can't be right- there's a Camry in second! Not only that, a Milano is in the top five; yes, this is a multi-Milano race, folks. Come back in a little while and we'll have more about those Alfas. galleryPost('NE08KielbasaLeader', 3, 'Initial Leaders At 24 Hours Of LeMons New England'); 1st – 29 Kielbasa Kids Racing 2nd – 11 Team Eliminators 3rd – 1 Schumacher Taxi Service 1 4th – 21 Team Pro-crass-Duh-Nation 5th – 07 Team Go Green
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Before all you statistics freaks start screaming "small sample size," relax and accept these graphs for what they are: the result of many hours of painful labor trying to extract meaningful data from official race results from a year of races cross-referenced with our LeMons Über Gallery posts to determine car make/model. What we learn is quite interesting: Japanese cars tend to do the best (RX-7, CRX), but the Chevy Caprice comes out on top as the LeMons car most likely to take the checkered flag. Mercedes-Benz, VW, and Porsche? Bottom-feeders! Make the jump to learn more, and be sure to check in this weekend for our coverage of the New England LeMons event! [ WastingTimeWithMikeAndAri ]
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Just finishing a single 24 Hours of LeMons race can mean a one-way trip to The Crusher after the race is over, as was the case with the Team Come From Behind Probe . After all, a couple days of metal-crunching, rod-throwin' action tend to be rough on a sub-$500 car. That's what makes the glorious career of the Eyesore Racing CRX so great; Soichiro's little 2-seater not only finished three races, it placed 7th at the October '07 Altamont race, 7th again at the December '07 Thunderhill event, and took the coveted People's Choice award (along with a respectable 18th-place ranking) at the May '08 Altamont race. However, even a Honda can't live forever, and team member Wrappedinbacon sends us this photo of Eyesore Pimpin's dearly departed race car. Jump to read his description and see the entire Eyesore CRX Greatest Hits gallery. galleryPost('DOTSJEyesorePimp', 3, 'Rise And Fall Of The Eyesore Racing Honda CRX'); I saw the post about the rotting...
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Something that really jumped out at everyone upon arrival in the Altamont pits yesterday morning was the incredible themes some- in fact, most - teams applied to their cars and costumes. Your typical art-car gathering -with its plastic army men glued to 80s GM G-bodies- would be put to shame by the decor on the race cars and drivers that we saw assembled at this race. Even previous LeMons events couldn't compare. How could anything bad happen at such a gathering? Sure, such a sentiment doesn't have very solid logic behind it- yes, racing can be dangerous- but when you see teams with themes as elaborate as the Eyesore Pimps (formerly known as Eyesore Racing ), the tendency is to feel that the risk doesn't apply. All of us are going to show up at the track today and try to regain some of the sense of absurdity that we know and love about this event; will keep you posted. galleryPost('AltamontPimps', 9, '1972 Lincoln Continental Down On The Street');
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