bam2002

This one was good. The cars had to run lights for night driving. It was a road course so HP came into play.

Thunderhill Lemons: Nocturnal LeMons

results..

Thunderhill Lemons: The Top 50 Lemons of 24 Hours of LeMons

photos

Flickr: Photos tagged with 24hoursoflemons

More to come.

I will be calling the cage guy this week RE getting materials.

Id like to have a meeting with those whom I have contacted re driving.. the end of Jan?

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treekiller

Nice one, looks like they were able to tone down the accidents! that is huge! Am I driving? I can help with the cage if you need help.

Loren

We've got the rally on Jan 26th. Check schedules for any other events you want to avoid scheduling on top of... or schedule your meeting on a weekday evening.

Is there a date set for the event we're looking at doing? I need to get it on my calendar.

bam2002

Weekend of July 26th is the one in SC..
Then they have another in Ohio Sept 13th weekend. IF the SC one goes so well and every on needs another fix.

But July 26th is the one I want to be ready for.

Also is meeting some where in Ybor OK.. guessing its centralized.. I dont know if any one lives in St pete vs tampa.

Loren

My calendar is marked. When are we gonna do some practice at Sebring?

BTW, Jeff and I have driven CMP. You'll want the car set up to really handle tight "almost autocross" turns for the one back section of that track. If the car has the tendency to plow rather than turn, with as many drivers as you're going to have, it could get ugly for the tires.

burgy240

That looks like SOOO much fun!

bam2002

Loren
Thanks for the heads up on the track. the e30s tend to understeer so we will need to do some welding on the rear sway bar to beef it up.
Each car has about $200 of improvments. Since I have already spent the $$ for 2 new timing belts on each. They are not installed yet.

Also a side note from the Lemons group out on Yahoo. Some of you may want to join.

Here is a thread about penalties and getting blacked flagged..
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I didn't ever get to use the shock collar, dammit. Admittedly, this was mostly because I
was too busy escorting miscreants straight out the front gate. (I think I pulled six driver
wristbands by the end of the day Saturday, and I personally put three cars on the trailer
Sunday. We also gave out a whole crapload of one-hour and four-hour impounds.)

I did cheer up a little when DILLIGAF manfully took three-dozen raw eggs in the lap over a
30-minute tire/cone penalty, but it just seemed that nobody wanted the shock collar in
exchange for keeping his wristband, the wimps. They were possibly too afraid of the little
one...--Jay

--- In 24hoursofLeMons@ yahoogroups. com, Jason Wiener <jason@...> wrote:
>
> did anyone get tased?
>

treekiller

I concur completely, the only place where you could have a car that was too loose is turn 2, where the floor drops out, or the kink. It's a Wilson designed track and has his signature radius changing keyhole because of it, the longest straight is coming out of the sharpest corner.

and while Loren might have a diffrent input, the curbs on track out are rough. where Sebring invites you to use all the track these seriously mess you up. in a race i'd want to pass on the inside. if you get pushed on one of those curbs you'll pogo right onto the grass. (don't ask me how I know) so yes a loose car will be nice, but it will have to brake REALLY well if we ever want to pass anyone. another thing to keep in mind is the sand when it gets windy. it can blow uninterrupted onto turns 1+2 unless they paved the paddock.

bam2002

Here is a video of the Thunderhill 1.2 mile course.

Looks like Alot of fun,,

Full Video of Sunday Session - trackHQ.com Gallery

Loren

Nice. Didn't watch all of it, but looks like good clean respectful racing.