CMP Sout Fall 2010 (Page 1 of 3)

It is all on our link on Facebook.  The best thing we did was 735i calipers and rotors front and rear with braided lines and E36 M3 pads. Direct bolt on.

Our thanks as well.  This was our best finish ever and we had a great time.  We spoiled our new teammembers with the experience.  We were sad to see the Tunachuckers take out the Duff Civic.  Those are both cars (and teams) that we enjoy seeing on the track.  I hope you guys bring them back.

On the plus side I don't think there were any other serious incidents.  That's a big improvement from the days of multiple red flags for burning cars.

We had a great time in the Eagle Talon while it lasted. It blew the headgasket with a couple hours left on Saturday. Looks like the engine could be toast. Broke the timing belt and crunched up some valves. Oh well, but it left plenty of time to work on the webcast.

Thanks to everyone at the track that made for a great weekend. Even with a blown motor it was tons of fun!

VKZ724, I think almost all of our drivers had some sort of contact with other cars at least once during our 8 hours of time on the track.  Lots of cars were coming into corners too hot and we were hit despite doing our best to make room for them.  I was personally rear-ended twice and a car scraped me while passing on the inside.  No major damage though; the worst looks like our front passenger-side fender was pushed in 3 inches.  Not sure how, but all our pink and purple stars stayed in place and the wheel itself was fine.  Also found some fiberglass from another car where our passenger seat would be.

I understand the rain was heavy, but IMO South Spring was a much cleaner race.  None of this is complaint; we had lots of fun despite a 9 hour engine swap (my first one!).

We took on paint everywhere but the front right.  With over 100 cars on a mile track, it is expected.

We had a blast as well, and I'd like to add my thanks to the organizers and staff. 

I also want to thank SpeedyCop, who graciously loaned us his welder during quiet hour so we could put our exhaust back together and get back out on the track.  We lost a lot of positions because of the fix, but it held and all of our drivers got back out for some fun on Sunday afternoon.

CMP is a lot more fun in a 944 than it is in an e12, that's for sure.  Looking forward to getting back out there!

I drive my Lemons car to and from work all the time.  Cracks me up seeing all the kids in minivans looking at it.

The magic of RustOleum

We didn't have as many penalties as in past CMP races, and the contact incidents were definitely down, but the level of driver anger and general red-mistiness was way higher than what we're used to at CMP. I think most of this is due to the increasing intensity of competition, as drivers who are now on their fifth Lemons race have become pretty damn fast.

As we've seen at other races since we started enforcing the letter of the law on the "three black flags equals three hours' time out" rule, taking the 10% of cars that get 60% of the penalties off the track results in a nearly deserted Penalty Box for the last few hours of the day.

You are quite welcome.  Never let it be said that Team SOB kept something that belonged to another team!  We knew that black rubber was not off our car, and you may have needed it.  And now our car is a tad bit more pointed to cut through the air better.....

Last weekend was the mos fun I've had at a racetrack in a long time.  looking forward to the next one!  hopefully next time we can keep the water temp below 260.