ZOMG BOP

She was about 50 feet short of the crest of the last hill before pit entrance when it conked out for good. I can’t speak to Stef’s thought process, but one of the hardest parts of this is knowing that she was about 2-1/2 car lengths from coasting downhill to safety on pit road.

She was wearing a HANS. They’re mandatory for LeMons as of 01/01/16.

Judge Steve McDaniel, who has raced in something like 70 LeMons races, has started this year holding Friday night meetings for rookies. It’s not on-track instruction, but it’s a classroom session with a lot of actually valuable information about how to get through a first weekend successfully. He dosen’t cover track…

Further, if you come into the Penalty Box for a mechanically caused off and something is broken on your car, the judges typically are understanding and will send you to fix what broke, then come back to say what you found/fixed.

“Intentionally putting your car in the grass in a Lemons race needs to be encouraged for mechanical failures, not punished.”

As best as I can tell, Rossi was right under Dixon’s rear wing for about 17 laps while Dixon was mostly running in clean air. When Ganassi/Mike Hull realized that Dixon wasn’t going to make it and brought him in with 10 laps left, Rossi must have latched onto RHR pretty quickly after that. He was behind him at least…

Here’s more on the P&M Camaro. They still owe Jay Lamm a motor.

Yeah, most of the junkyard owners who have raced bring weird stuff. Like a Mercedes CLK230 Kompressor with a blown engine, so they threw a single-barrel 2.3 Ford Pinto motor in it. More than $500? Who cares? It was suddenly a 90-horsepower Merc.

A lot of (not-NASCAR, not-F1) motorsports pay broadcasters to put their races on the air in the U.S. because they long ago stopped getting any kind revenue from TV rights. I’d be interested to know where that tipping point was/is for racing and if that’s something in the cards eventually for stick-and-ball sports.

This is what happens when you leave the moral high ground. #NotEvenOnce #GreenLyfe

Blowing up in the inspection line is a pretty common occurrence at LeMons. One team at Gingerman a few years ago nuked an engine revving it to 2000 RPM during the killswitch test: RRRRREEEEEEEEEHHHH-PLAH-PLAH-PLAH-PUH-[SILENCE].

It has homologation for FFSA GT (French national GT series) and has gotten special dispensation for some non-FIA series to run, as I understand it. It’s in the same boat as the Ginetta G55, Cadillac ATS-V, and Lexus RC-F.

I believe they’ve cleaned up in the ERC for a few years now, too.

Lada’s WTCC program is the obvious current choice.

Worth noting: All three drivers were wearing HANS or NecksGen devices.

Brand new cars every year. The 2015 R18s will get put into storage and trotted out when they need to make publicity appearances.

If the 25H of Thunderhill media guide is to be believed, there will two of them running in their own class, ostensibly an exhibition class. I’m curious to see what their pace looks like. A 155 mph top speed isn’t going to produce good-enough lap times to contend with the ES/ESR cars, but I think they’ll run close to…

Me three. Still haven’t owned rowed my own gears on a street car I owned, unless you count 50 or so miles of backroads LeMons testing.

Pretty sure that was Kevin Gleason’s Honda.