Are Southern Lemons Drivers really better than the rest of you? (Page 1 of 2)

we had 6 or more i think.........  lol  damn mustang.

Schumacher had 3 - a very unusual occurance for us.  Our team only had 3 in the last five races combined.

Methinks the rain and oil slick on Sat morning had a lot to do with the total.  But the area was somewhat busier than I had expected all weekend.

we were Hoons.  i had two personally.  3 total over four events for me.

our team total was three i believe, unless you count Chantelle. 

We had no black flags in the coROLLa again.  Of course we grenaded the motor just before the four hour mark. 

I two on Saturday within ten minutes of each other for four wheels off in turn one. First one I went too hot into the turn on the inside. Second I cooked the brakes and they faded on me. Little too cocky and a NO experience in the car. Still due to our superhuman team captian Speedycop was able to pull us out of the pit I had thrown us in. He turned a 1:01:69 - second fasted lap.

I got back into the car on Sunday afternoon and on my last lap going into turn one the brakes just disappeared. NOTHING!!!! No fade, just flat out gone! I must have been doing ~50 when I lept from the track into the sand pit. I got it started, smoke poured from the right front when I hit the brake.

CatastrophicLEFT front caliper failure due to lack of pad... pics coming soon...

edit: it was the left not right front caliper...

it appears 3 blacks per race is about "normal"....since we had 3 at Arse Freeze but the average there was almost 4......so my goal is to ALWAYS be under the "average"

We steadfastly refused to acknowledge the establishment's definitions of the boundaries of the racing surface, finding them arbitrary and unnecessarily limiting to our team of free spirits.  The efforts of the oppressive authoritarians running the event to stifle our innovation and creativity earned us 7 flags, but we're nice guys and are willing to chalk it up to creative differences if we receive an elaborate apology engraved on a 12" block of platinum and delivered by really hot German beer girls.

P.S. - Did you guys weed out the mechanical black flags from the total? I mean, really, mechanical black flags should not be counted against the participants at a Lemons event.

We shot ourselves in the foot.... 4 times.

The last one cost us somewhere around 30 mins building a frigging puzzle on the hood of our car while listenening to the other cars continuing around the track.  That was a brutal punishment.

The 4 black flags coupled with a flat tire on day one and we were glad that we were still able to finish in the top 10 (8th.)

To answer some of the questions, mechanicals were NOT counted in the total.

The most common two were:
Spin and Continue
2 off/4 off

2 off is the same as four off

Next was contact, followed by very few passing under yellows.

I think our brainstorm of announcing that a yellow flag DOES NOT mean slam on your brakes has reduced the number of passing under yellow blacks dramatically.

Roger it was great meeting you guys in the pits, and listening to Cheeto explaining what the most recent penalty was for.   Best quote:  "But one was a mechanical black flag, so they let us back out..."

Did the car make it back home????