Im in trouble

Join the club, everyone who has done this for the first time will tell you that the stress will kill you. For our first team we didn't have a car until a week before the deadline. Our team captain had three guys that said they wanted to race, they backed out so he invited me to join (Best thing I have done) we were able to pick up two other drivers and get the car ready for the race. Your problems with wiring can be posted in a form of a question to pretty much anyone on this board and if they don't have the answer they will know who does. You are not stuck with those drivers, keep them on the application for now. If you need to change up people you have until two weeks before the race to make final decisions. Our last race at Reno the engine blew the day before the race, hey it's Lemons. For our next race I am short one driver so my wife will be joining the team, this is one way to make sure you qualify for the race.
This is your chance to race in one hell of a fun sport with some of the best support from your direct competition. Do Not Give Up!

get accepted then worry about the rest   thats what this race is all about  dont over think it

only 2.5 weeks till newengland friend

Something I told myself last year every time we had a driver drop out (which was often) was "you will not have a shortage of eager drivers".  And it was true: we eventually filled up to 6 drivers like we had planned.  People will jump at a chance to get hours of wheel-to-wheel seat time for $500, though it can be hard when you're a first-timer.

With this forum available and Lemons having been exposed to a wider and wider set of people, you will ALWAYS be able to recruit some randoms off the internet if you are unable to recruit via your own friend network.  This year, we've got the opposite problem: now that everyone on the team last year has told their friends about Lemons, we have way too many people that want to drive, even though we've got a 2nd car and are running 6 drivers per car.

Funny how so many team mates don't quite understand the concept of "team."

Our first race with our first car, the car wasn't together until Tuesday or Wednesday before the race.

The second race, the engine siezed while testing 2 weeks out.  We help another team too and the week of the race we were frantically trying to get both cars ready.

The third race, we added the second car which was barely together in time to leave for the race.  I don't recall what all we did the week of the race, I just know we worked on the car like mad men.  Unfortunately, it blew a head gasket.

Last week we worked on both cars every night past midnight to have them together to do a track event.  The engine with the blown head gasket got replaced and my vibration was from the transmission.

Point is, we want to be ready early this time but it has never happened before. 

The whiners ready to quit are probably bitching up a storm.  If my initial team wrenched as well as they bitched, we would be phenominal.  Unfortunately, all this leads to stress, irritation and drama.

Welcome to Lemons.

My team was great. We got together once or twice a week, made a list of things to do, and got everything together on time. This happened twice before our last two races. Then since our last race, my best three workers all moved away (the closest one being about 65 miles away). So now I'm pretty much on my own. Thank goodness our car is in decent shape, because I'd be stressing a lot more if it wasn't. My nearest driver lives 100 miles away (in L.A.)!

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