The new rules and how its killing Lemons... (Page 6 of 7)

I smell BULLSHIT!!!

Like I've said before ,I can do door bars .
I have a trailer can pick up and deliver when done.
call me in San fancisco bay area .

Umm, I was saying I reach those speeds in my DD street cars (Talon Tsi and A6 Biturbo) at (relatively safe) trackdays/HPDE's where there is NO CONTACT and no passing except on straights with pointby, emphasizing the need for safety in a field of shitty cars and/or drivers.  I can't imagine how intense/exciting Lemons is going to be.  Hopefully the car will be ready for Thill next year.

Doing a Dukes of Hazard imitation would be very cool the first time...

I am praying that this happens. My single biggest aggravation with the track this spring was that tire chicane and the gridlock traffic it produced.

If tire chicanes are still necessary on some tracks, my suggestion would be to put more distance between the stacks of tires so that the bigger/slower cars (or less experienced/aggressive drivers) don't feel the need to slow to 10 mph to navigate the tire chicane. Maybe put out three rows of tires, but spaced further so that it's more like a set of esses rather than just a chicane.

Still, I'm hopeful that we're seeing the end of the tire chicane era in Lemons. That said, I'd be stunned if we don't see at least one set of tire esses/chicanes on the backstretch of Nelson Ledges.

I think we might mount a deer siren on our car for Nelson Ledges, given the reported prevalence of wildlife around the track. Maybe a dog whistle too.

You know, I didn't even see the dread mustard and ketchup on the tire chicanes in Houston, and I was really looking for them as I drove through during the all-course yellow flag laps. Is that just legend at this point, or are the Lemons crew still using that method at some tracks?

We didn't have any chicanes at Reno,but did @Thill with mustard and ketchup .
Did you have the paintball sniper on the start finish stand for people who didn't stop for blackflags.

Ditto!  The one used at the first CMP race was absolutely terrible.  It made people drive insane trying to get to the head of a single file line to get thru it.  Thankfully at this years spring event, Jay and Co. decided not to use it (as an experiment we were told) to see if we would all 'play nice' and not drive like jackasses.  Even with slightly higher speeds, there were less incidents (at least from our vantage point) because people had a nice wide berth to pass before entering T1.

I REALLY, REALLY, REALLY hope the chicanes stay away for the fall race.

+1

I completely agree on the CMP situation compared to last year.

A chicane on the back straight of NL, in the middle of the night would almost certainly be worse.

Just putting this out there...  How much would someone pay to "take one for the team?"  I was thinking - register a car that is large enough and hardened (with rollcage and extra tubing in strategic places) enough to go out there and make contact with offensive cars to take them off the track for 30 minutes.  I mean - if you have a problem with a car, rent this one for $300 (for 60 minutes) and just go out and hit that team. 

Any driver is allowed to drive any car so anyone could pay the fee and take it for a spin.  This car would just sit around in paddock until someone wants to "take one for the team."

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and there are all kinds of themes - sharks mostly - that would go along with this.

The July '08 CMP chicane suxxored, particularly with the big heavy underpowered turd we were attempting to race. Late on Sunday it had gotten shoved around and was MUCH better to deal with. I guess Jay and the rest of his California liberal gang decided we rednecks wouldn't necessarily kill each other without it.