Even though we struggled with the combination of a dirty fuel tank and no more than a half hour of test driving in a front yard leading up to the race to find said issue before Saturday, we still had a blast. We greatly appreciate that Wisconsin Crap Racing helped us with some injectors to replace our clogged ones after we traced our 3-cylinder running issues. Unfortunately, the car quickly lost 2 more cylinders again. Then it was back to the intraweb forums and found good ole farmboy advice of using magnets to keep rusty sentiment from fouling up your tractor. After a quick WalMart run and dropping a couple into the fuel tank and putting another on the bottom of it, we were running on all cylinders for all of Sunday... Then I overcooked the front Rival Ss outer edges and broke the gas pedal trying to get to the kickdown switch so we were an hour shy from finishing out the race. We look forward to better tire selection and preparing for Gingerman in the spring!
We enjoyed wandering the paddock Friday and Saturday night and loved the communal nature. Wild swaps like Priority Fail's MR VR6 and Lemonaid's M50 Metro were certainly great examples of why my new teammates think Lemons is so neat in addition to all the cars that you wouldn't see on the racetrack otherwise, like Team Sheen's maroon car or a Ranger that is way faster than it rightfully should be!
Congrats to Ta-Tas. Now maybe Roland can pursue my Lemons of the Sky racing idea, we'll just need a rather lax airworthiness director...
-Robert, Party Sheep Racing
The Jerry Lundegaard GMAC Financing Award, Joliet 2013 [Cutlass Ciera w/ Iron Duke]
Eta E30: IL Fall '15, MI Spring '16, IL Summer '16, MI Spring '17, KY '17, MI Summer '21, KY '21, MI Summer '21, MI Fall '22