Things to do after xmas-

Enter a car in the 24 hours of Lemons, an event this next weekend at Thunderhill road course Willows, CA
http://www.24hoursoflemons.com/

Here is our teams entry the "GI_SHO"

Last weekend during roll cage and seat installation


Tonight it finally made it to the paint booth after 16 hours of mechanical prepartion work over the weekend


Tonight after camo paint


Now to pack the trailer with spare parts and tools

SSP LX said:

A camo SHO....something you do not see everyday (or really any day). Good luck.

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Thanks, we are really looking forward to it. One of the wacky plans to entertain the crowd was to shot lemons out of the sunroof using a potato gun.

Final results-
The SHO mechanically finished off the event with only a minor water leak at hour 14 of the 15 hour event. After repairs it looks like we finished 43rd out of 71st after serving 5 black flag penalities during the event. Unfortently 2 of those happen on Saturday that cost us many laps so I had been trying to recover and make up time on the competition. I ran 2 stints on the 7 corner 1.25 mile road course Saturday, include a run from 4pm - 7pm. The dark driving was the best, really made up time, never went off track but did make contact while over taking a mazda mita. The race restarted Sunday at 9am, I believe six drivers is to many for this event because we lost so much time changing out drivers. I drove the first stint on Sunday from 9am thru 11:30am before being black flagged because of contact with a Dodge Neon. Oops. My times were good enough for 15th fastest of all the competitors present, and 8 seconds faster then any of my team members, so at least I let them know I was here. One of our crew was filming some of my run so I hope to post it on U-Tube. The SHO with 03-04 PBR Cobra brakes and Hawk Blue pads was outstanding!!!
After this expierance I'm thinking of getting into a local series or the American Iron series if they make a stop at Seattle or Portland in the coming year.

After celebrating with the team and some Sierra Nevada's I'm signing off from Willows, CA
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Made it home safely yesterday in time to celebrate New Years with the family. It was sooo much fun.... balls to the wall, wheel to wheel and limited contact. This is a fast track so you could really get in trouble, there was a few cars that got upside down. Also a Neon got nailed by a 240Z in the dark after his clutch failed and the Neon was slowing in the dark. Photo's of the event are posted on the lemons site here on pages 1 thru 13-
http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/24hoursoflemons/

You will also see why you shouldn't show up with a x-race car with a race motor and coil overs !! This was a Mazda 626 that recieved the "People's curse" vote, it was laying down times of 1.17 a lap.

My personal photo album of the event can be viewed here-
http://s190.photobucket.com/albums/z62/roush0736/Thunderhill_07/

Some were a POS back markers and some others are retired race cars........... Take a look

Here's the top 50
http://jalopnik.com/cars/thunderhill...ons-339088.php

Lap Times
http://www.mylaps.com/results/newResults.jsp?id=713849&ShowPerClass=0

A video from one of the teams, you will see me wheeling the #71 starting at the 3 minute mark
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VRiV5RqXd0



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