Topic: Respect for the never-say-die Türbo Schnitzels!
Jay decided that the Dixie Chickens deserved the Heroic Fix award for sacrificing the engine of the team captain's daily-driver Fiat 124 Spider (when's the last time you saw "daily driver" and "Fiat 124" in the same sentence?) to keep the race car running, but the Türbo Schnitzels deserve some recognition for the impressive 15:1 wrenching-to-driving ratio they achieved with the ghettocharged 351W-powered XR4Ti over the weekend.
First they blew up the differential... while driving at 2 MPH on the parade route in Camden after the BS Inspection. Then it turned out that they'd also hosed the transmission. After scouring the surrounding counties for parts (fortunately, they'd installed a Supra rear and Mustang T5), they managed to get the car onto the track for a few hours on Sunday. It was hella fast down the straights and sounded great... right up until the moment when it blew both head gaskets. With a couple of hours left to go, the Schnitzels took a shot at replacing the gaskets, but ran out of time.
Even though they missed out on their second Heroic Fix award, the Türbo Schnitzels get Duct Tape Clusters added to their Congressional Medal of Bondo for their heroism. You teams that give up at 1:00 PM Saturday after losing a brake caliper or water pump, please feel shame.