Go to about 7:50 and watch Dave get whacked:
Also, interesting to watch someone else driving a car similar in performance to ours (thankfully, though, we didn’t have any clutch slippage). Notable that they just plain stay out of trouble: pass when possible, but generally drive conservatively.
Driving Tips, Knowing Is Half of the Battle!, Race Analysis, Videos
Thanks to uber-dedicated crew member Stevo, the first highlights videos of our first LeMons race are up and on YouTube. He broke it up into three parts; the first one is embedded below, but here are links to videos two and three. Enjoy!
Misty Watercolored Memories of the Way We Were, Race Analysis, Videos
In today’s edition of the LeMons Video Documentary Series, we see the footage that the Group of Foolz put together starring their e30 at the Thunderhill race. As you can see, there is plenty of foolery for the entire family! That course does look like it would be fun to drive, what with the elevation changes and all. MSR Houston looks like it’s about as flat as a schoolgirl. Cue the video:
Advice from Other Teams, Driving Tips, Knowing Is Half of the Battle!, Videos
Team Formula BMW ran an e30 at Thunderhill last December. One of their team members, Rahul Nair, created an entertaining and instructive mini-documentary that’s well worth watching. It’s 25 minutes long, so wait until you have some time to take it all in (I watched it during lunch). It goes all the way from car prep (wouldn’t it be nice to have a full-service Lotus shop prepping our crapcan?) to transport, tech and judging, and then some of the race itself. I found the judging part to be most instructive, but you may have other favorite parts.
Here’s the link to his blog, which also has the video, but I’ll embed the video below for your convenience. Enjoy:
The Lemons Experience - Thunderhill 2008 from rnair on Vimeo
Knowing Is Half of the Battle!, Team Strategy, Tomfoolery, Videos
Here’s some interesting video from Arse-Freeze-A-Palooza, the LeMons race that ran the weekend after Christmas. Let’s just say “hilarity ensues.” Enjoy:
Arse Freeze Apalooza Jackass Highlight Reel from Adam Lazur on Vimeo.
By the way, I ordered our race seat and harness today, as we’ll need those to get the roll cage in correctly. Pretty soon here we’ll have ourselves a race car…
Ok, so the video in the first post, maybe it’s not perfectly illustrative of the racing in LeMons anymore. They are now black-flagging folks who make contact with other folks, at least if they see it. All TARP drivers (a/k/a the true “toxic assets” of our race team) should watch this video; it’s the driver’s meeting from the Houston LeMons race in October 2008. Good stuff here, especially the part about not fighting over positions in an endurance race (9 minutes, 59 sec):
We’ve decided to make a go of it for the 24 Hours of Lemons race in Houston (a/k/a LeMons Gator-O-Rama) on Feb 28-March 1, 2009.
Whoa, there, you say! What in blazes is this LeMons thing, and are you crazy? If you know me, you know that your second question is superfluous. But the first one is a legit question. Although you could surf on over to the LeMons site that was so handily linked above, they say that a picture is worth a thousand words and that a YouTube video is worth even less. But I think this is descriptive, illustrative, and it gives me goose bumps every time I see it:
More photos and details after the jump:
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