With 174 entries, we knew the first day of the 2013 Sears Pointless 24 Hours of LeMons would be wild. Plenty of thrown rods, plenty of lunched transmissions, and a steady stream of black flags later, the race session ended with several very exciting battles that will be resolved on Sunday.
In the P1 position, we have the car that dominated West Coast LeMons racing throughout the 2012 season: Cerveza Racing’s 1983 BMW 533i. This car is on the same lap as the P2 car, the If It’s Not Punk It’s Junk BMW 525i, and ZZZZzzzzzzzz…
Let’s face it, it’s hard for a true LeMons aficionado to get excited about two fast BMWs going fast and clean yet again; we’ll let you know Sunday night who takes the overall win. But now we’re going to look at the most interesting race-within-a-race at this weekend’s event: the fight for the Class C lead. At the moment, the 1971 Volkswagen Super Beetle of Bozos Sucko Racing (you may remember this car as the dual-control racing machine of Team Ferdinandwertschtzungsgesellschaft stands atop the Class C pyramid, in 32nd place overall. This car has had Subaru boxer power for its last few races, and the team has learned the hard way that Subaru engines manage to be even less reliable that air-cooled VW engines under LeMons conditions. However, the Bozos Sucko setup is working fine for now; the car has been quite reliable and (for Class C) fairly quick so far.
Just a single lap behind the Volksbaru is the tank-turret-equipped Jaguar XJ12 of the Flaming A-Holes. As we’ve seen, Jaguar V12s in LeMons racing have suffered from horrifically bad mechanical woes (hence the Class C berth for this car), but Sears Point hasn’t managed to kill this one.
A mere one lap behind the Jag, we find the twin-engined Toyota Corolla “FX32″ of Volatile RAM. This team, which has now built two twin-engined Toyotas, says the soft stock springs of their Corolla/MR2 mashup make for some interesting handling, but the car has been good enough to claw its way within grabbing distance of the Class C prize.
Meanwhile, the real shock of the race so far has been the performance of the Flaming A-Holes’ other car: this 1964 Hillman (badged as a Sunbeam for the US market) Imp. The Imp sat for …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Car & Driver