Can we talk about why you idiots chose the Porsche for the Curse? (Page 3 of 15)

There's always the chance that the folks who voted for the #44 are not forum regulars!  I never looked at the forums or really even knew they existed until a month or two ago & I know most of my drivers have never been here.  That's my only explanation for who voted & why, but it's a WAG.

Eric

$500 944's are indeed plentiful.

This summer I paid $750 for TWO 944's - $250 for one and $500 for the other.

between them I got two motors, one is brand new, just needs to be assembled, complete with a reciept for $2000 in machining work.  Other is in good running order with 100k miles on it.

One 944 is for parts. 

The other has new beautiful red paint that was properly/well done, a mint black leather interior, nice wheels with decent tires.

When I put it together it'll easily fetch $5000-$7000 in canada - but still, I got it for $500.

NO, I'm not thinking about lemonsing it, it's far too nice.  I only bought it to flip.  But they're out it.

Team Lebowski did not vote either we didn't even remember seeing the car on the track.

But that being said, the rules state you should expect your car to be destroyed.  We did, even though we weren't on the track much.

I love the rule and hope it stays.

Hi all. My name is Andrew Cordeiro and I was one of the drivers in the red nissan 240. I had a great time racing against the Dragon. Whoever he/she was raced me very cleanly and we had a blast. One of our team members had a medical emergency and we had to withdraw from the event at around 10:30pm on Saturday. Again it was a blast to race with you and I am sorry to hear that your car was crapped on. Hopefully you guys can put something else together and come back next year!

Lookin' forward to it, Cheers.

P.S Thank you to all of the workers, officials and everyone behind the scenes who made this awesome event possible!

Team Fahrfrumwinning, Toronto, Ontario.

Funny, I would say the votes of teams in the hunt shouldn't be counted at all.

How about a rule that if a Curse candidate gets less than, say 40 percent of the popular vote, the outcome goes to the Lemons Supreme Court, who can pick anybody they want...

My team also did not vote. We were busy (racing, not wrenching), plus we did not think anyone deserved it. These guys were pitted near us and we were happy to see them get back on track after changing a head gasket.

I agree the idea needs to be re-thunked. And the idea mentioned before (giving Jay power to choose between the top 5 vote getters) won't fly - no way he wants blood on his hands like that.

This result is a slap in the face of the B.S. judges - it's their job to even the playing field, not the mob. I always thought this award was for obvious douchebaggery on the track, or the worst cheater of the race - did these guys get any B.S. points?

Our team also didn't vote.  No stand-outs in our view.  I considered suggesting we vote for the grey Saab that damn near punted (yeah, I said punted, your honor) me off in the carousel... I think I was solidly 3.5 wheels off, but managed to save it.  But, figured I'd let it slide.

I suggested this after Kershaw:  The curse should require 50% or more, not a mere majority.

I applaud the organizers for carrying out the curse, though.  The curse voting rules have yet to be changed, so they are what they are.  Jay caught A LOT of flack for allowing a "majority mob rule" revote at CMP, and wisely chose not to go that route again. 

The chosen curse was pretty mild, too... If a whole 924 can be found for under $500 (I know they can), then a used engine should be a couple hundred bucks.  Maybe they'll spend a couple bucks on a hammer and put some dents in the car to make it more Lemony-looking, too?  Appearances are everything.

I was very much baffled by that one as well.  Yes is was a VERY nice looking car, YES is was a Porshe, but the curse us supposed to be for people being jerks.  EVEN IF you want to call the car a cheater the on track results show that it sure as hell didn't work if they were cheating.  We (Team Sucker Punch) voted for no one to get cursed, the only car that gave me issues dropped out early on.  I think its time to rethink/eliminate the curse.  Maybe instead of destoying the car make the team remove and then replace the engine??  I dunno something non-lethal but would still take them out of the race and be a fun penalty!

What about changing the rules, granting a free entry to the "winners" for the next race? Kind of a "yes, we destroyed your car, but no hard feelings, dude". Or some other way to allow non-deserving "winners" to not get too bummed. I mean, I know life isn't fair, but...

And make it retro-active for this race.

Another idea: no 'curse' unless 25% of the teams at least vote for somebody. I have a feeling that turnout was light due to the lack of popular 'candidates', not unlike my local school board elections.

You were awarded a 15-lap penalty for that super-stiff cheatanium suspension. We just gave you shit about being Porsche Club members on general principle, and because I'm still pissed about that "Ferdinand Porsche vas just followink orders" revisionist Ludvigsen book I had to review for Jalopnik right before leaving for Ohio.

As for the "bogus" black flag, it was your complaints about bogosity that earned you the essay penalty. Which I must admit you handled very well.

We built the Chop Top Mercedes for the Fall CMP event, We didnt think much of the talk about voting for us cause we LOOKED like we were cheetin.  We all talked about the crushin thing and all felt that with as much work as it took to just get any car ready that there should be a better way than crushing a car.  We voted in that event to not have any car crushed, then we got busy and forgot to vote in the Ohio event.  I have watched this group of events grow in the last 2 years, maybe its time some of the ideas of these events grew up a little bit and leave the cruching to the "Way over the top deserves to be cruched"   We desided to not bring the ChopTop because of the cruching, it takes to much time to make a nice car that is cool and interesting.  I take pride in my work and saw a great many cars there that had hunderds if not more than a thousand hours of work in then, to cruch that doesnt feel good, and i think that it will have more people like me NOT bringing an interesting car if the "mob"s blood thurst for crushing isnt curbed .  I have never had more fun racing in ANY other car racing in my life, I think the formula is genius, I hope Jay and company ALL the sucess in the world.