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What about floating islands? Or hovercraft? No more turbine golf carts? Or barstools? WHO'LL BRING THE BEER FROM THE OTHER END OF THE PADDOCK???

In protest Team Sputnik will bring a bunch of aspiring teammates to operate our rickshaws and kart our drunk asses around on Saturday. Don't tell them that it's hazing, we call it a "team-building exercise". I expect other teams to follow suit.

If anyone in MD area has extra bicycle wheels, I want them.

If they ban rollerskating on the track at Capitol Offense at night, I'll cry. Until then, I'm merely annoyed.

"and after realizing at Summit Point '12 that police supervision actually makes things way worse."

what's the story here?

Indeed....

What's the deal with the Razor scooter hate? Scooters and skateboards are pretty legit pit conveyances. I feel like there must be some crazy story of Evel Knieval - esque jumps over multiple Lemons cars out there at Summit Point.

I'm pretty sure the razor hate is for the kids, not us - too many kids running around in paddock.  As for the rest.......  How are the fat asses like me supposed to get around?

So how will this be policed?
I thought the organizers split to their swanky motels after dark at most races.

I'll miss the teams cruising around bring us poor saps that are still working on our cars drinks late at night oh and the flaming pit bike jumps.

I have found the solution to the group's evening transportation AND drinking challenges:

If we weren't building the Rolls, this would be our next build.  Hopefully someone beats us to it.

There's that, but it might also be due to the fact that a certain police person .. a very fast police person, one might say .. was the source of a lot of shenanigans at Summit Point.  Him (or she) and his (or her) 4-wheeled multi-terrain capable conveyance had no small part in what was the most visually impressive and amazingly dangerous stunts I've seen at Lemons. No injuries whatsoever, but I can see how they would make an insurer quite nervous.

Also, yes, this rule is a bummer.  It's not necessarily WRONG, but it makes me sad.  All the motorized endangerment at night has been one of many, many high points of these races.

You'll never take me alive, coppers!

Fine, well if I can't ride my Super Cub then nobody can! Not Phil, not nobody!

I don't think I will actually own the thing by the time Sears comes along anyway. Spring is almost here and that's when young men's minds turn to thoughts of scooters and tax refunds

After a few dozen emails back/forth to HQ, it is ALL motorized vehicles not taking you and your felons off - or on the facilities.

Clarified: no motorized beer taps/mobile-margarita-service/dance platforms/etc, no deliveries from one end of the paddock to the other, no driving to and from the showers/heads, no testing of race cars, nothing. ZERO motorized. Unless it is taking you to a place off of the facilities and is being immediately used to do so.

I didn't get that exact wording, but it was implicit in the communications I did get.