Kershaw People's Curse (Page 2 of 3)

We voted to crush the judges rental Kia....

My Take:

Look, If the car was an obvious Cheat, the judges would have caught it and assigned laps. They didn't. I checked the car out. Other than internal engine mods, the car wasn't a cheat. It really did have stock suspension under it unlike the Cheater Cops who had $1000+ worth of suspension mods in the car. The Probe? Obvious Cheats. Lightning McQueen? RCR sponsored, Lingenfetler built engine still couldn't overcome race strategy.

Fact is, the car was honest (as it gets) and it raced CLEAN. It pointed me by when I was whippin it's tail on the straights, and cleaned my clock on the tight turns. We passed each other 50 times and never touched. 

ALSO!!!  Jay CLEARLY states in the rule to NOT vote the current winner just because he's cleaning your clock. Why the hell did everyone vote this car? He was racing CLEAN! Go check out the car!!!  NO fast fill fuel cell, no trick brakes, not LS1 under hood...  IT'S CLEAN!!  So why vote this car? I'll never understand that.

B U T... Jay and company invented the crush rule. Why not live by it? You gave us all a ballot and we voted. Maybe the Judges should have cast a vote too, exonerating the RX-7 and putting the Race Engine'd VW in the crush?? Maybe the USS EnterSuck for being a cheat and a huge PITA on the track?? Maybe just beat the piss out of teh RX-7 but leave it running so it could enter the race but still run like the Rubber Biscuit bull shitters?

At the end of his mercy speech, I REALLY wanted to see it crushed!!!  I wanted BLOOD!!!!!  I hate that #1 was voted, but stand by your guns. Crush the winner of the vote!

According to the crewmember posting on TrackGeeks Live™, the McQueen car was pushing oil temps above 260 in the last 45 minutes.

I, along with many others, were on the  edge of our virtual seats.
The short red flag and many yellows saved their motor, I believe.

I haven't seen a more exciting finish to *anything* that I can remember!!

The battle back to the lead by White Lightening was epic.

I think we were all rooting for McQueen to get back in front.
Those extra laps added to the end were fantastic!!

I hope to see more of this.

KT

I was expecting a disgruntled voter to 'take out' the White Lightening car near in the final minutes.
I'm glad they didn't.

KT

If a team is fast on the track and winning by being good, courteous drivers then I wouldn't vote for them...

But then if there is nothing about the car that's "in the spirit of Lemons" - with nothing but a number and some duct tape on it... then yeah... it would be easier to vote for it to be crushed.

I have to agree. This was an exciting race to watch. The chat room interaction with everyone just made it so much better. Thanks to the timing folks for letting us have access to the data to post in the chat room towards the end. I was on the edge of my seat on every lap waiting for the cars to come around to see the gap between p1 and p2.

look at Mr. Fancy-Pants and his non-urine oil.  sheesh.  i guess some big-buck people can afford to BUY oil.

Not for a turbo car with good oil.  If it was an NA w/said urine, I'd be worried.

Petroleum oils seem to have a hard time anywhere close to 300*, but many synthetics will survive 300+...

So that's what you need to do to make your own oil- surely you have some suitable base stocks around for your VKZ24Syn(th) oil...
The kids leave their oil paints around?
Some old expired castor oil from the drugstore?
Various hair products?
You'll have some long-chain polymers in no time- ready for the next race!

BTW, X-args I'm sort of a fellow expert on J-body wheel bearings.  I have a '98 Z-24 that I've tracked for many years and I literally keep (8) as spares in my tool box.  I've probably changed 25 or more on my car over the years.

The number of brake failures concerns me.  Then Tunachuckers catching fire due to a blown brake line.  Wake up people, this ain't a Sunday drive for ice cream, we are actually racing here people.

Regarding spare parts, you can buy all kinds of spare parts like belts, rotors hoses, clutches and things at Autozone or O'Reillys and return them at the end of the race if you don't use them.  The list gets longer with every race.