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This is racing! It's about 37 degrees out. There are no spectators here; no fans, just the drivers and the crews. Yet the teams aren't quitting. Unless they are forced to. Like the SE-R, which somehow lost 3 of its 4 studs on the right front wheel. That's metal fatigue for you. Team Dilligaf got three black flags for excessive hoonage, as did the former front runners in the #87 MR2. Other than that, it's just the usual series of brakes, radiators, gaskets and, well, radiators. Pit party starts in 15 minutes. TOTAL COVERAGE continues... galleryPost('mascarnage', 6, 'The LeMons Carnage Mounts'); Pssst, check out the water squirting up in the lower right corner. No, they didn't know why either. Bad hoon. This guy spun team Dilligaf's CRX enough times to collect 3, count 'em 3 , black flags. He's blaming the mud. Uh huh, sure. And yes Davey, the Rockford Pile Transfiremaro is A-OK.
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This is racing! It's about 37 degrees out. There are no spectators here; no fans, just the drivers and the crews. Yet the teams aren't quitting. Unless they are forced to. Like the SE-R, which somehow lost 3 of its 4 studs on the right front wheel. That's metal fatigue for you. Team Dilligaf got three black flags for excessive hoonage, as did the former front runners in the #87 MR2. Other than that, it's just the usual series of brakes, radiators, gaskets and, well, radiators. Pit party starts in 15 minutes. TOTAL COVERAGE continues... galleryPost('mascarnage', 6, 'The LeMons Carnage Mounts'); Pssst, check out the water squirting up in the lower right corner. No, they didn't know why either. Bad hoon. This guy spun team Dilligaf's CRX enough times to collect 3, count 'em 3 , black flags. He's blaming the mud. Uh huh, sure. And yes Davey, the Rockford Pile Transfiremaro is A-OK.
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First of all, I'm sorry to disappoint anyone who interpreted the photo above as an indication that a late-70s Mercury Cougar and an early-70s AMC Hornet actually finished in the top 44 at the 24 Hours of LeMons race at Altamont over the weekend. They did not; I used this photo because I wish they had so triumphed. Second of all, I got plenty more photos to post of this Incredibly Jalop-Approved Event™, but it took me so long to prepare the ones you see below that you'll have to wait for later to see the rest. Jump like a gutted CRX sliding sideways into a tractor tire to see the Top 44... One thing we should make perfectly clear to those of you who haven't actually attended a 24 Hours of LeMans race: this is real racing ! Don't be fooled by the $500 spending limit (which, uh, we think may have been exceeded by a few teams) or the often-whimsical appearance of the cars- the contending cars drove fast, spent a lot of time sideways, swapped a lot of paint with other cars, and left a trail...
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