Can we talk about why you idiots chose the Porsche for the Curse? (Page 2 of 15)

I was suprised too. As said most of the first hours of the race were spent up on stands. I never came across them on track so I have no idea about the driving. The car didn't look all that fast when I watched it from the tower by 12. They were not on our radar for the curse. We turned in a no curse ballot. I'm not sure if these are regarded as a non vote or if the option is treated as a car so 20 votes for no curse and 19 votes for a car means no curse.

The car did go back out on track after the curse. I was on track from 1am until 4am. When I saw the car I radioed back to our pit to let them know the car was out there much like snoopy, lada and caddy spottings. 2 turns later the engine blew a few cars in front of me and I was engulfed in a thick cloud of smoke through the carousel. A scary experience for a noob. So whoever was wondering the engine did not survive

as the owner and builder of the Dragon car i can tell you it was not a cheater. The car was in such sad shape when i got it, i thought about getting a different car for Lemons, but we just soldiered on and said if it breaks it breaks. Most the time was spent on safety preparation and my "too nice" roller job and theme stuff. The "supercharger" most of you heard was one of our balance shaft pulleys getting ready to go out that we didnt have time or money to replace. I really thought we would not get the curse after everyones enthusiasm for the car. THat being said, we have a line on several "cheap" long blocks that people have in the porsche community and the car will be back up and running soon. Not sure we are convinced to ever to a Lemons race again after this though, maybe chump car. Ive been reading about this Lemons thing since 03 and just this year was able to even think about doing it, just to have our time, money and energy wasted and we ran a total of 7 hours of a 24 hour race. With six drivers that wasnt worth the money for any of us.

When i WAS out there on the track-at night- i did see some pretty fast guys out there and had alot of fun. If you had the red 240 or the white Beemer you saw me in front of you or right behind you for much of two hours. I think i may also have some of your tire on my quarter panel.

It did suck.  Maybe the curse should go to a "majority" rather than just "most votes?"  Or some other vote percentage threshold?  If someone deserves it due to asshole driving, they'll definitely get a lot more votes than someone with a car that's "too nice."

Someone even asked us how we got a "rust free" CRX.  I showed them the body close up and they said "oh, you painted it!"  Yep, paint - even water based enamel - will do a lot to hide rust and nastiness.  Our car was really freakin' far from rust free.

I did vote, but it wasn't based on perceived cheating.

It does suck that you got the curse, I don't think you deserved it.  But 7 hours on track is still a pretty dang good deal at what you end up with in a Lemons race.  We only got 2-3 hours and I still think it was worth it.

+1

The problem is that there *are* some teams at some races that deserve it.  And if there isn't a threat of destruction, then you will see a lot more asshats and cheater cars on track. 

If voting choice can be made easier by giving the voters more information.  I'd like to see current penalty count (and why) and number of laps given posted.  A car with a lot of penalty laps and car contact would get my vote.  Cars with no laps and only a couple of flags for offs would not. 

Maybe drivers who get two black flags get tossed.  When that team is down to 2 drivers left, they get trailered.

Common sense and intelligence would have prevented you from making that post.  Politics have no place in this forum.

+1.

Not a fan of President Obama, but I'm a fan of keeping politics out of the Lemons forum.

It sucks that anybody's car gets crushed, but they tell you about it right up front.  It specifically says that you should expect it to be your car.  If the thought of your car getting crushed scares you, don't come.  We got one of the expanding foam in the toolbox penalties, and it did suck.  Watching the judges have such a great time screwing up your property got a lot of people hot, but they tell you they are going to do this stuff.  You have to embrace it as part of the experience and move on....just like the Porsche team seems to be doing.

Now, about our 50 lap BS penalty........

Ken

there aren't black flag penalties for being a d-bag on track.  do you really want the corner workers deciding whether you chooped someone off too closely, or that your passing move was actually a block of someone else?  i don't.  when the superkak car tracked out of a corner and forced me 2 wheels off in order to avoid contact, there is no flag for that.  but there is my curse ballot.

and BS laps only help prevent a cheater from winning; they don't do anything to prevent asshattery on track (in fact, they may encourage it as the team tries to make those laps up).

Heck, that curse baffled me. I never noticed them, and their theme was good. I think its time to rethink the whole curse. As earlier mentioned mob rule is NOT good. How about this:

Everybody cast's their votes. Of the cars picked, Jay picks one out of the top 5 vote getters.

We didn't vote at all. There were a couple folks that annoyed me, but nothing serious. BTW, I watched a certain BMW pass like 20 cars under yellow in the closing laps (I was on the sidelines then).... that was pretty curse worthy!