North Dallas Hooptie LeMons Day One: 300ZX Leads, Jeep Cherokee Close Behind! - Car and Driver (blog)
After Friday’s car inspections at the fifth annual North Dallas Hooptie 24 Hours of LeMons, we heard quite a bit of armchair-LeMons-judge controversy about letting a 1987 Chevrolet Corvette compete with zero penalty laps. Well, the Lil’ Pecker Racing Corvette finished the first day’s race session in P12, 14 laps behind the leader. Here’s the TGTW Offroad Racing Jeep Cherokee, which has been pretty quick in the past (for a truck with early-60s-technology pushrod L6 power and solid-front-axle suspension) but nothing like this. This truck will start Sunday’s race session in second-place overall (out of 67 entries) and a mere four laps out of the lead. This team won Class C with their Jeep Comanche at last year’s North Dallas Hooptie, and they’re leading Class B by five laps in their Cherokee. Looks like the most successful Jeep Cherokee in road racing now faces a threat to its supremacy. These LeMons rookies could teach most veteran teams a thing or two about team organization and non-panic-stricken wrenching ability, and we expect to see their Civic ready to go when the green flag waves on Sunday morning. Source: blog.caranddriver.com
