I know what you're getting at, but for me, the main point is that racing should be a "female-oriented interest." I'm a realist enough to know that's not necessarily the case (in terms of participation, at least), but I also agree that young girls aren't quitting racing to go shopping or hang out with the popular girl…

Well, that's an entirely different part of motorsports. Successful racers' children have an easier path to their own success for many reasons. Racing is no longer (and probably never was) a meritocracy.

"The numbers decline as the cars go faster."

Not that it matters anymore, but Jay and Co. basically consider Nelson Ledges to be the absolute worst LeMons race of the 110+ of them. A lot of things in the series changed for the better after that race.

I think the first couple were there, then they had one or two at Buttonwillow, one at Chuckwalla (in serious BFE territory), and the last two have been at Sonoma.

The rules say something about production, road-going vehicles so I would guess not, but they do occasionally grant waivers for things they think will have entertainment value. I'll go ahead and guess the gearing on a tug is less-than-ideal for road racing.

In this year's 24 Hours of LeMons race in Colorado, Grumpy Cat Racing's 1950 Dodge Truck lunched its flathead straight-six after a couple hours of racing.

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Pre-World War I motor racing was fraught with peril, drama, disappointment, triumph, monumental leaps in engineering, and just insane cars. It wouldn't be hard to extract a cinematic storyline: Ralph dePalma, the 1912 Peugeot engine, the first Indy 500s, the Mille Miglia (Yeah, I know that came later), the Milwaukee…

Buncombe's a helluva driver. He's a lot of fun to watch in a GT3 Nissan and great in this.

I am disappointed by your lack of obvious LeMons shirt, but I'll let it slide this time.

You and Jeff Gordon were both at Calistoga the night before the Sonoma race. What's it like going back there to just watch and hang out and shoot the breeze with old friends? Does it make you miss driving sprint cars?

I interviewed the builder shortly after that race. He was in an airport and I was in a parking lot, so there was communication gap, but there's some good info in there:

No fourth gear in the transmission and the powerband is so narrow that he couldn't go third to fifth. Top speed in third was about 70.

Rotary engines, yes.

That's YouTube's weird image stabilization. The 600-pound radial is hard-mounted to the chassis, which probably explains some of the vibration.

Really, why don't they put you on TV to explain things like this? The broadcast teams are usually clueless about this and instead rely on their vague folksiness to talk as though the "good" or "bad" car is the result of some magic at the hands of the team owner, manager, and maybe the engineer (Maybe). It's offputting…

This is part of the lead-up to the Brickyard 400 (Now the "Crown Royal presents the John Wayne Walding 400 at the Brickyard").

Pardon the ignorance here, but if the SA-11 is radar-guided, shouldn't the operator know the flight level and speed of the target? And shouldn't they be able to tell that the FL and groundspeed numbers are well outside the performance envelope of the AN-26 or AN-24 (as has been suggested what the target was)?

It's a…

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