Paddock car sabotage overnight at Sears...WEAK!! (Page 2 of 5)

It is almost always raining in northern California from November to May, so we aren't neophytes to racing in the rain.  We are pretty darn meticulous when it comes to fueling the cars, and we went over and over the "chain of evidence" from the gas pumps to the fuel cell.  Our crew drained the two 25 gallon tanks that we pumped the fuel from to see if there was any water in them.  There wasn't.  It was only about a half gallon or so of water in the fuel cell, not 2.5 gallons as rumored.  I also wouldn't believe that someone ran around with 2.5 gallons of water, but I unfortunately can believe that someone would carry and dump a large Evian bottle's worth of water.

The car with the plug wire off and the car with the water in the tank were about 25 feet from each other overnight.  They were also in the back corner of the paddock, sort of behind a building - by far the most secluded part of the paddock.

Is there "reasonable doubt"?  Absolutely.  Do I think these two issues are a coincidence?  I doubt it.

Move on, everyone.  That little stunt by itself didn't cost us the win.  IF it was sabotage, it was done by some small minded ass hats.  Anyone with so little integrity and such poor judgment probably struggles with bigger issues on a daily basis just trying to get through life than a little water in a gas tank.  If it wasn't sabotage, well then I guess we're the small minded ass hats and found a way with no rain since mid-day on Saturday to get half a gallon of water into our tank.

Maybe it was urine.  We're looking for a small-minded ass hat with a large bladder.  Wasn't me.

Scott

Hmmm... just so everyone knows, we're bringing sharks with laser beams attached to their heads to guard our carz at NJMP.  Sharks with lasers will shoot more than just your pinky toe... though we might also offer to fly in Judge Scott.  He's a Marine you know.

Always the professional. 

BRING JUDGE SCOTT EASTWARDZ!!!

I just remembered something (hard to believe, I know)....the Estate actually has a locking gas cap!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  The bummer is I don't have a key :>(  damm damm damm...

Settle down, tiger.  As others have pointed out, unlike "Little Prick" spray painted on the side of your Pinto, all of the issues reported *could* be unfortunate coincidences.  Unless video evidence comes forward, we'll never KNOW what happened.

IMHO, no one owes anyone anything.  None of the issues were terminal or anything beyond an annoyance.  There's nothing to see here.  Disperse, please!

Doubt it was sabotage if someone was going around doing it they would be an oppurtunist I would imagine, and our car was in the air with the hood up the entire night and nothing happened. I just highly doubt it. Everyone in the Lemons community is beyond amazingly cool, never seen a better group of racers on the planet.

I kinda think it's got nothing to do with the judges - the race ends for the day, the judges go for a lie down somewhere, somebody makes sure they're comfy then closes the casket lid for them until morning - then the next day the racing starts again. In between racing stopping and starting again you're on your own time and responsible for your own stuff.

Is it a terrible thing if people were screwing with other people's things? Yes, of course. If people did this and were found to be LeMoners, should they be banned? Again, of course. But beyond that, it's unfair to even mention the Judges in the same sentence; it's YOUR responsibility to make sure your stuff is secured. I'm happy to consider whatever happened as a one-off and continue being cavalier with my own car and equipment, but I know that it's MY responsibility to make sure nothing happens to it.

I'm kinda new to the state of Texas, but I believe that here, if you're screwing with stuff that doesn't belong to you I am legally entitled to shoot you. My aim isn't as good as Judge Scott's....so pinky toe, testicle, left nipple....one is as probable as the other with me. 

Other than some tool thefts at the squalid, mud-soaked homeless encampment that was Nelson Ledges, I've never heard of any serious ripoffs at a Lemons race. This is the first time I've ever heard of any sabotage to cars at a Lemons race, and I must admit I'm skeptical that such a thing would happen (though Fish and Dean of the Model T GT team aren't the kind of guys who'd make this sort of thing up). Why the hell anyone would want to hose the 8th-place team, which (in addition to being out of contention on Saturday night) is full of guys who are well-known for helping other teams fix their broken-ass cars, is beyond me.

Anyway, if someone who knows anything about this feels like ratting out saboteurs, the Vengeful Fist of the Lemons Supreme Court will come down hard on the perps.

Skytrooper: Quit your gibberish about the judges not giving a shit about the alleged sabotage, eh? Of course we give a shit. I just got off the plane from California a couple hours ago and am still decompressing from working a race with 170 cars, and I tend not to follow every single thread on the forums while I'm still hallucinating the jabbering faces of whining Lemons Penalty Box miscreants.

Got the corner of our rear bumper in Reno/Fernley in 2009 we got to the track and were like WHAT THE F is that Yellow spot on our bumper then we looked at Ryan's car color and laughed.

Too bad you missed the pasta dinner, it was quite good.  That, or my team had just finished throwing a new motor in the Jeep and hadn't eaten since breakfast, thus anything hot tasted good.  In any event, that was a seriously cool thing for them to do.  The garlic bread was especially tasty.

-Matt

Phil, Jonny AND Scott all in the same thread?! If that ain't judicial collusion I don't know what is!!!1!