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1991 Honda Accord - 24 Hours of LeMons
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 Issues with the front brakes...  Issues with the front brakes were our biggest problem. Excessive wear on the first day caused us to go through three sets of front pads.  After running off the track...  After running off the track because of a brake failure, the judges had this metal pig welded to the roof of our car. I think it means we were being road hogs or something. Regardless, we started calling our Honda "The Pig Rig."  One of the greatest aspects...  One of the greatest aspects of LeMons races is with so many cars on the track, there's always lots of action. One lap you may be up against a small, sporty car and the next a big American car that can't get through the turns well but will drag race anything down the straights.  Yes, that's a toilet seat...  Yes, that's a toilet seat making up the sides of the wing on that Jetta. The car ran well, so maybe there's something to it.  Despite looking like it had...  Despite looking like it had just been pulled from a swamp, this RX7 was fast through the turns. The team that prepared it did its homework and also did a good job of hiding it.  At each LeMons event, there...  At each LeMons event, there is an opportunity for one car to be destroyed by the "People's Curse" which is a vote by all the teams. This year at CMP, the victim was a Mustang GT one team brought that was far faster than anything else in the field. It's a perverse form of self-policing to keep racers from spending too much money or driving like jerks.
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Why You Should Wear a Head-and-Neck Restraint
“By all accounts it was the most spectacular wreck of the Mid American Stock Car Series’ 2012 season. It happened shortly before the halfway point of the 75 lap event during the Short Track National...
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NASCAR GEN-6 for 2013
There was quite a bit of fanfare when NASCAR introduced their new Sprint Cup Series cars earlier this year. They called them their GEN-6 cars and said the new car "puts the 'stock' back in stock car...
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The 2012 AMSOIL Great American CT Tour
Our next two stops on our Tour, after our long week previously spent traversing all of the state of Wisconsin, takes us first out of Wisconsin to Iowa and Hawkeye Downs Speedway for a Friday night...
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