TX People's Curse?

There was no car awarded the Peoples Curse at the Houston race. Actually it was a great group of racers who ran with spirit. Truly a great race!

Wow...is this our first 'no curse' winner?

WOW!!!!

Is this a hint of things to come???

Oh no... I see it now... there will be TWO crushed at a race in the future to make up for it!!!!

edit: OH MY GOD!!!! There are two MkVIII in Lemons now???? Move Over E30's... the Lincoln's are taking over!!!

This has to be our best race yet even though my car is wounded now.

The weather was about a good as you could ever want, the full unobstructed course was muy fabuloso, everyone played really nice and no one got cursed.

Did we mention we ran the largest field ever on a full unobstructed course and it worked out great!

I suppose Lemon Demolition driver/Excavator  operator Ryan will be crushing 2 cars or will   need counseling @ Thill

The RX7 guys are very interesting.  I just wish their idea of fun was a little quieter.

I gave them some oil Saturday under 1 condition:  No Loud Air Horn before 9:00 or 10:00.

I suggested to Jay an extension to the Noise Limit to include everything on the car: sirens, horns, exhaust whatever.

Additionally on a Safety note, I think sirens should just flat out be banned. 

A car had a siren that sounded just like the MSR trucks.  Those need to be associated with emergency vehicles only.  I mentioned it to Jay and he said those guys aren't supposed to be using that.

Union Jack,

While your car was a bit less LeMony than others, you guys seem to have the right spirit.

I can't imagine why your wires for your zip tied in place kill switch could have possible come lose.

I enjoyed meeting you guys and your BS inspection.  I think you guys had a great attitude and took everything in stride.  I look forward to seeing you again, even if it is in the Mini.

After seeing you guys out there, it makes me rethink the whole "go kart" handling claims.

I thought the air horn was the coolest thing on the track.

Our paddock was next to the RX7 .. the horn got a little old by Friday evening.

I did about 2.5 hours of driving over the weekend, and honestly didn't come across anyone that deserved the curse. The MINI had too many problems, the XR4ti kids were just there for the learning experience, and everyone, for the most part, drove pretty cleanly. (I think using the unobstructed full course helped tremendously ... I couldn't imagine that big of a group running the short course. Although, having some chicanes on the back straight would've helped our slow-ass car! )

I agree there was not a clear winner (loser) to crush, the closest was the noisy RX7 with the diesel stacks and air horns, that thing was way too loud in so many ways.

Overall a great race with civilized (for the most part) drivers.

I think that the more open track discouraged some of the sort of driving that earns a crushing. I hope we have the open course again next time. I was worried before we ran it, but it was spectacular. Can;t say enough about what a great experience it was, even if we had one of the non-running MR2s. I did get my picture on the lead story in Jalopnik and got a very thoughtful thanks from Pat and that isn't so bad...

True, but I kinda wished Team Swine Flew might have met that anti-viral D9....besides I kinda like the Soviet national anthem...