Too early to start a "Lamest Day" thread? (Page 3 of 5)

We have six person teams and I fully intend to catch some Zs as long as the car is running and were cruising along.  We're looking at, theoretically, the possibility of 4 hour sleep shifts.

A little birdie told me probably about 120 cars will be accepted.

There's more than 120 teams applied right now.  I expect it to grow to 150.

I think everyone who's driven Grattan loves it. I can usually be found bombing around turn three in my Passat wagon. Go for the sewer grate and you're home free into four and the esses. Yeah, it's waawaaaaaaay too challenging. The swamp would be double-stacked by the end of the second lap.

Caravan sounds like a good idea. :fingerscrossed: for us!

We are a newly formed team looking forward to this event.  We have  4 drivers, hoping to be selected, keeping our fingers crossed and noting how the race organizers like their steaks cooked.

Cheers.

I see that average speed is about 90, what about the typical Lemons car? What is the general consensus on how fast the cars will be on an average lap? I am worried about our hunk-o-crap running @ 4000 rpm for 1 min let alone 24 hours.
     Thanks Dave

Man I hear that.  At Stafford we were spending a lot of time at redline in 2nd in the Craptation, and I was thinking "This thing's gonna blow!"  It did, after 87 laps. 

Looking at the Thunderhill 2008 video, the presence of tire stack chicanes in the straights looks like it slowed things down quite a bit, at the expense of creating queues. Unlike Stafford, there appreared to be only room for one car at a time, with some jerkola line jumping.

Not sure if that's in store for Nelson Ledges or not.

The recent trend seems to be in favor of no tire chicanes. We had one tire chicane at MSR Houston and it caused a lot of problems. Since then, IIRC, none of the 2009 races have used a tire chicane (unless there was one at Stafford, I haven't seen any video from that race). They didn't even have one at No Problem and that was the first time Lemons had visited that track.

It seems like the most logical place for a tire chicane at NL would be someplace on that backstretch, but with the limited run-off room back there and the Kink (which appears to be off-camber to me in the videos -- can anyone confirm that?), and the fact that this will be nighttime racing when it might not be a great idea to have a big black set of negotiable obstacles on the track -- my bet is that we won't have chicanes at Nelson. But what do I know? As my team will tell you, less and less every passing day. Cheers.

Stafford had no tire stacks this year, just the turn one chicane complex, which could be taken two abreast (if both cars play well with others).

So maybe no tire chicanes for NL? I have to say that 80-90 MPH average speed seems pretty darn quick for rustly old cars with questionable suspensions. We'll get to use fifth gear. Stafford was about 55 MPH average (best lap), as I recall -- big difference. I will be much less amused at getting run off the track at NL speeds (assume our team is lucky enough to get in).

Actually we estimated getting to almost 80 MPH at Stafford in the coROLLa.  We were deep in third gear.