24 Hours of LeMons
Event Date: Jan. 08, 2008
So exactly what is this event? Well, it's just like LeMans, but it's held in California and your car can't cost more than 500 bucks. That pretty much sums it up. Here's the word from Scott Smith on how team Size Matter's '67 Fury III fared in the race:
We entered a field of 71 cars, among a field dominated with Miatas, RX7s, Honda Civics, Acuras, 3-Series BMWs, Porsche 914 and 944s, and about every other good handling import you've ever seen, and we finished in 12th! (That is a serious win for us!) We only had one mechanical issue, a bad alternator, it cost us about 7-8 laps. I got black flagged for not seeing a yellow and passing a car (woops!) and was parked for about 10 laps. And one of the other drivers, Mike Tucker, was black flagged because he got hit by an aggressively driving BMW (no fault of Mikes but when two cars connected BOTH were black flagged off the track, strict rules) and that cost us about 8 laps. We were in 10th position prior to those incidents so who knows how well we could have done without the penalties! We had 5 drivers and all ran competitive/similar times, average laps were in the low 1:30s. On Sunday I somehow managed a 1:27 best lap speed but while out hammering on it a sway bar end link broke and it slowed us a few seconds a lap for the rest of the day. All things considered it was a REALLY fun event and unlike previous LeMons races, it was more like a real race than a destruction derby, there were some SERIOUS cars on hand running VERY fast times!
For more details, read Rob's blog, and make sure to check some of the video Scott shot!
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