SHO Wins Lemons!

congratulations...I hope the streak of unlikely winners continues at Sears Pointless.... 

I gotta admit I thought a SHO would make a great Lemons car...& was surprised at  how poor their record was.....which makes your accomplishment all the better!

Congrats

We all thought the car could do it, but it's hard to test the car for hours at a time. A HPDE day won't do it, sessions are too short. So race day is the test sesion. Learn what breaks and fix it for the next one.

I was lucky to start the first Yee Haa Tx race with the El Toro Loco team SHO. Boy were we ignorant then! Went to the race with a knocking engine and a higher than normal water temp. We said lets race anyway. 30 minutes of racing the water temp is in the red and water is spraying on the windshield. The engine never ran cool the rest of the day. At 5pm it blowed up. Not really the engines fault, we dumbasses didn't fix the running hot problem before we got there. There starts the marathon engine swap into the late night.

Then I got together with Team Zip Tie because they are here in Houston. Raced with them, but with 6 drivers you don't get much seat time.

So I got my own team. Went over everything I know that's weak on a SHO to make sure it was good. For the first race in New Orleans the AC even worked! Drove the car to the track raced it and drove it home. I said if it blows we get a U-Haul and tow it home. Finished 6th with one penalty.

At the Oct MRSH race I pulled a impossible dive bomb pass that ended up hitting 2 cars. Thankfully I hit them where they could continue. Me bent inner tierod. And I got an ass chewing by James R. the safety steward. He was at the corner and saw it happen. So no second hand info for him. He saw me screw up. He put us on double secret probation for the rest of the day. One more black flag for anything on Saturday and we were done. I told the other guys I'm not driving anymore today. The best part was we were in 2nd when I did that. But I didn't know it, because if I had I wouldn't have tried a stupid move like that. After fixing the tierod we were like 65th. By the end Sunday we got back to 25th. The lesson for this race was, check the timesheets every hour so you know where you are. And of course no low percentage passes.

We'll see if we can proove in N.O. that the win wasn't just a fluke.

Congratulation Sergio, great race.

We will be doing our best to get our Z to the podium at No Problem to break the Z curse.

Like you we have tested the car and it's amazing how many things are good for 30 minutes and go down the crapper after 45.

We started running hot a little over 2 hours into Saturday.  We nursed the Z along but we were falling farther and farther behind the leaders.

I managed to get a new radiator Saturday night and we've been running nice and cool since.  Hopefully we will be giving you and the rest of the pack a good run for the Nickels at No Problem.

Congrats again.

The Americans and Japanese finally come together to make a winner.  *sniff* Brings a tear to my eye.

Thanks you guys.

The track surface at NPR is so rough that it will probably have the same traction wet as it does dry.