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Re: 2014 Race schedule

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Has anyone ever raced in every/all Lemons race in a year?  I know the early years they were all in CA and held just a few races a year but wondering if anyone has done a Lemons "Season" since they expanded?

20-something races.  Many back to back.  Traversing the country.  The only tough parts would be money and finding drivers for every race. 

I'm currently under(un)employed and have the time, RV, race car and trailer.  Now I just need $20+ grand pay for entry fees, another $5K for race car fuel and something like 500 gals of diesel for the RV.

Anton (X-args) has far and away driven the most races this year and ever. Not sure what an accurate count is, but it's probably been at least half of this year's races.

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Has anyone ever raced in every/all Lemons race in a year?  I know the early years they were all in CA and held just a few races a year but wondering if anyone has done a Lemons "Season" since they expanded?

20-something races.  Many back to back.  Traversing the country.  The only tough parts would be money and finding drivers for every race. 

I'm currently under(un)employed and have the time, RV, race car and trailer.  Now I just need $20+ grand pay for entry fees, another $5K for race car fuel and something like 500 gals of diesel for the RV.

Anton (X-args) has far and away driven the most races this year and ever. Not sure what an accurate count is, but it's probably been at least half of this year's races.

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Re: 2014 Race schedule

Here's the 2014 schedule, so far. My apologies if this wasn't supposed to be public for some reason, but if you go to https://registration.24hoursoflemons.com/members/races you can see it yourself (where I pulled this from).

'Shine Country Classic    Feb 01 to Feb 2, 2014    Barber Motorsports Park   
North Dallas Hooptie    Mar 01 to Mar 2, 2014    Eagles Canyon Raceway   
Sears Pointless    Mar 22 to Mar 23, 2014    Sonoma Raceway   
The Cure for Gingervitis    Apr 19 to Apr 20, 2014    Gingerman Raceway   
Southern Discomfort    May 03 to May 4, 2014    Carolina Motorsports Park   
The Real Hoopties of New Jersey    May 10 to May 11, 2014    New Jersey Motorsports Park   
Return of the LeMonites    May 31 to Jun 1, 2014    Miller Motorsports Park   
Button Turrible    Jun 21 to Jun 22, 2014    Buttonwillow Raceway   
The Humidi TT    Jul 05 to Jul 6, 2014    Sebring International Raceway   
Pacific Northworst GP    Jul 19 to Jul 20, 2014    The Ridge Motorsports Park   
Doing Time in Joliet    Jul 26 to Jul 27, 2014    Autobahn Country Club   
There Goes the Neighborhood    Aug 09 to Aug 10, 2014    New Jersey Motorsports Park   
Vodden the Hell Are We Doing?    Sep 13 to Sep 14, 2014    Thunderhill Raceway Park   
Lemons South Fall    Sep 20 to Sep 21, 2014    Carolina Motorsports Park   
Where the Elite Meet to Cheat    Oct 18 to Oct 19, 2014    Gingerman Raceway   
Halloween Hooptiefest    Oct 25 to Oct 26, 2014    New Hampshire Motor Speedway   
Gator-O-Rama    Nov 08 to Nov 9, 2014    MSR Houston   
Arse-Freeze-Apalooza    Dec 06 to Dec 7, 2014    Sonoma Raceway

initial gripes:
-No Road America sad sad sad
-Only 1 Autobahn date / 2 gingerman dates (I'm local to Autobahn)

initial yays!:
-2 gingerman dates
-3 EZ races for me to make
-looks like some new tracks just outside my current area of operations

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Glad to see Gator-Rama pushed back out of hot/humid as hell months

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I think we will be aiming for Gator-Rama for our first race.

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18 races, same number as this year.

By region

West: (Sonoma, Buttonwillow, The Ridge, Thunderhill, Sonoma) = 5
Midwest: (Gingerman, Miller, Autobahn, Gingerman) = 4
Gulf: (ECR, MSR) = 2
Northeast: (NJMP, NJMP, NHMS) = 3
South: (Barber, Sebring, CMP, CMP) = 4

Miller and Barber are kind of between regions.

Second NJMP replaces second NHMS.
Sebring replaces Monticello.
Miller replaces High Plains.

I'd guess this is all preliminary and will be interested to see if it changes.

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Re: 2014 Race schedule

in related news, due to my h4d h4x0r sk1llz, Jay should hire me to do the Lemons web stuff. (I know they had a posting a while back, I didnt apply)

also, kinda sad that 24hoursoflemons.com still shows "2012 remaining" schedule tongue

Jay: shoot me a base salary figure and we can start negotiations from there (-: Oh, I don't do graphics... just programming.

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I'm guessing Road America has another lack luster showing this year probably due to the time of year, and possibly they were pushing Lemons even further back, or maybe they don't want to sign until we prove we don't wreck the place in a couple weeks first.

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I'd love to make it out to Seabring as well.. but that's a long haul from Austin.

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2x NJMP rocks! But no more summit point?!

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Looking at that schedule again and the second Gingerman date is a bit quirky.. "Where the Elite Meet to Cheat" was the CMS '11 race name and doesn't make much sense for a race in Michigan. I wonder if it's a placeholder name.

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2x NJMP rocks! But no more summit point?!

Missed that somehow. I wasn't there this year, but the impression I got from this year's race was that the paddock was no longer really accommodating the full Lemons grid.

I'm interested to see who turns out for the race at MMP.

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Missed that somehow. I wasn't there this year, but the impression I got from this year's race was that the paddock was no longer really accommodating the full Lemons

Makes sense. Small paddock and narrow track meant wait list this year

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I'm guessing Road America has another lack luster showing this year probably due to the time of year, and possibly they were pushing Lemons even further back, or maybe they don't want to sign until we prove we don't wreck the place in a couple weeks first.

thought the 2013 RA race was sold out no???

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Pissed about summit.  Really was my favorite race of the year.  There was still over 100 cars, and we all seemed to fit just fine.  Whatever, bitching will not make a damn bit of difference.

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hotdogwater wrote:
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I'm guessing Road America has another lack luster showing this year probably due to the time of year, and possibly they were pushing Lemons even further back, or maybe they don't want to sign until we prove we don't wreck the place in a couple weeks first.

thought the 2013 RA race was sold out no???

Don't know, I don't even know how many cars will be there.  Guess we'll see in a couple weeks.  I know a lot of people were scared off by the word November.

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Re: 2014 Race schedule

therood wrote:

18 races, same number as this year.

By region

West: (Sonoma, Buttonwillow, The Ridge, Thunderhill, Sonoma) = 5
Midwest: (Gingerman, Miller, Autobahn, Gingerman) = 4
Gulf: (ECR, MSR) = 2
Northeast: (NJMP, NJMP, NHMS) = 3
South: (Barber, Sebring, CMP, CMP) = 4

Miller and Barber are kind of between regions.

Second NJMP replaces second NHMS.
Sebring replaces Monticello.
Miller replaces High Plains.

I'd guess this is all preliminary and will be interested to see if it changes.

Miller Motorsports Park is in Utah which is far closer to the left coast than anywhere that would be considered the Midwest. Make that 3 races for the Midwest (plus Road America hopefully and a second Autobahn).

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The issue with a 4th midwest race is how they are spread out.  the July autobahn race makes it tight to stick a 4th race in.  If autobahn was june then you could stick an august race in the midwest and still give plenty of time between races.

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Very sad, the North East area goes from 5 races to 3 with losing Monticello and Summit Point....

I hope they find a way to add something else.

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hotdogwater wrote:

thought the 2013 RA race was sold out no???

Last time I check the available car numbers I came up with a car count in the 60's.

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Re: 2014 Race schedule

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Very sad, the North East area goes from 5 races to 3 with losing Monticello and Summit Point....

I hope they find a way to add something else.


It's honestly 1 or 2 for us.... NJ is a long haul, and requires i take off way more time from work that I'd like. Really sad that NH in May is gone. Please bring that back.

I'll haul to NJ once, not sure i can get my team to do it twice in a year.

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this makes my plans for next year a hell of a lot easier.

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I was told by an unreliable source that Lemons will not be returning to Summit Point in 2014. Can anyone confirm this?

Interesting. I thought the Lemons/HyperFest doubleheader was becoming a staple at Summit.

Me too, which is why I mentioned my 'source' was unreliable - that being a random guy on the Chump forum who PMd me and said that Chump is getting the spot next year on the date w/Hyperfest. I haven't seen anything that would confirm that anywhere though.

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Summit is SO damn much fun!  One of the other Summit tracks would be a blast, and (although it didn't seem like too much of an issue) the other paddocks are much bigger than Shenandoah.    I wonder whether NJMP will be one on Lightning and one on Thunderbolt.

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Aw, man. Miller is on my "want to drive" list. Please be on the way to my HS reunion. Please be on the way to my HS reunion. Please, please, please be on the way to my HS reunion...

Only two Texas races, though = sad

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Sebring!!!!! And 4th of July weekend at that! Paaaaaaaaarrrrrrtyyyyyyyyy!!!!!

Ahem, um, I mean, I'm sure a sober, wholesome, and above all, patriotic time will be had by all. Yes.

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