Gingerman Rocked! (Detroit Bull-Oil GP ThankYous) (Page 1 of 2)

Thanks to the Bucksnort guys for letting us use their head gasket for the E30.  The head gasket replacement was a success.  Unfortunately, the engine was too far gone.  Just under two hours and their goes (yet another) E30 motor toast from an earlier coolant hose rupture.

We still had a blast...and now must scramble to get a replacement engine in less than two weeks!

Indeed! Thanks to everyone! Good to see many of the same teams from April.  We are looking forward to another year of lemony goodness.

I had a blast too!  Great to see all the teams helping each other out.  The Red Rocket guys brought us all their fuel over after they blew their motor up and offered to let us borrow anything we needed to keep "Legs" running.  Ends up while they were at the bar watching Michigan State trounce Michigan, we had to borrow one of their brake calipers after bending a pad and shattering a piston in our caliper. 

Sounds like I wasn't the only one that blew turn 11, lucky for me, that's when the brakes went, and I had some run-off room (aka pit in...). 

It was out first race, and we're incredibly thrilled with our 8th place finish.  Most of all, though, it was a blast racing with everyone out there - everyone seemed to play fair and give adequate space when being passed.  It made for some great racing.  I personally had a blast racing the VW quantum and the yellowish green RX-7 late Saturday afternoon. 

Can't wait to get out to another race.

Steve Baumbach
#69 Detroit Escort Service 1996 Dodge Neon - aka "Legs"

What a blast!  Everyone on our team loved it at Gingerman again.  I had a good running with the "Legs" and "Lebowski" Neons on both Sunday and Saturday.  Can't wait to do it again at Joliet!  Hope to see a lot of you there.

We had a blast as well...great track, great facilities, great weather and great people.

It's true what they say:  police package crown vics really are indestructible.  given the amount of metal in our oil on friday, we were expecting to get maybe an hour out of the engine.  little did we know that the bearings would become the least of our worries.

thanks to all of the teams that wandered by to look at the car and the wing, and to all the teams who offered advice, assistance, encouragement, and tools...special thanks to the anonymous guy who recommended "motor honey" for the bearings, as it seemed to work like a charm.  sorry to those teams we splashed fuel on in T2.

and sorry to Gingerman for all the oil stains and piles of oil dry we left behind.

Though bitter sweet with both front hubs gone (wheels flopping) and a blown engine that refused to die completely, and finally getting the boot with a new and unexpected fuel leak, we still had a lot of fun and had some good racing trading spots back and forth with a handful of cars all stint long in some cases.... See ya next time (Lebowski Neon)..

I want to thank everyone, especially Team Reynolds Style(so close!),  Schumacher Taxi, Team Scirocket, Team No Whammies (thanks for welding our cage!), The Save the Ta-Ta's Subaru, Booby Prize racing(for the hospitality) and everyone else.  We had a great time, and can't wait till spring!

No, we are all done for the year.  The budget's have been stretched to the limit for the year, and we need the winter to recover.  We will be Gingerman in the spring.

This race had the fewest total penalties of any Lemons race I've worked, and the Whiny Racer Quotient (WRQ) was incredibly low. Good work, Michigan racers!

Great time everyone!  Skid Marks Racing Neon #56 once agan succombed to a mechanical failure, but we had a great time for the seven or so hours we got to run.  Special thanks to Legs #69 for offering up some of the parts that we might have needed to get the car back on the track on Sunday afternoon.  We'll find a way to get it back together for Autobahn.

See you guys then.

Ryan
Indy

I wasn't sure about whether I'd like the track when driving during test n tune, but damn that's a fun track!

As usual, everyone was awesome.  The driving was mostly clean, and if I made any rude moves while on track, I apologize.  I try to leave room and not dive bomb folks.  I guess it's all a matter of perspective.

There were so many teams that we ran with (Booby Prize w/ the flux capactitor disgusied as a giraffe, Santa, legs, Hot Wheels,  the MR 2 w/ the pinup, and some more that I'm not thinking of).  it was great having so many evenly matched cars to battle with.