2LeMons Southern Discomfort Day 1: No-Holds-Barred Sephia-vs-Metro Struggle ... - Car and Driver (blog)
During Friday’s car inspections at the fifth annual Southern Discomfort 24 Hours of LeMons, we found that we had a full sixteen Class C entries, out of 86 total teams. That gives this weekend’s race the best True-Lemons-To-Boring-Cars Ratio (TLTBCR) we’ve ever seen, and so we geared up for an exciting all-out Class C slugfest during the first race session. Mock Grass Racing and their 1998 Kia Sephia have been struggling to get on top of Class C for quite a few races now, and it must have taken the menace of 15 parts-shedding, 45-minute-driver-change, 500-treadwear-tire-equipped rivals to spur on the... At the end of Saturday’s race session, Mock Grass Racing owned a single-lap lead in Class C. . One of the dilemmas faced by justices of the 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court is what to do when classing a theoretically quick car with an extensive... Such was the case when the Generar Ree 1974 Datsun 260Z went through the car inspections on Friday. early Z cars have a pretty poor LeMons record, and this one in particular has lived its LeMons career in the mud at the bottom of the standings, so we put it in Class B. Miraculously, the Generar Ree didn’t break even once, and the team finished... Source: blog.caranddriver.com
