WOO HOO! I knew our new race car was a good idea, no matter what the rest of the team thought about my sanity and decision-making.
Our theme has always been weak, rattle-can crap on the car and make some beer. For the new car, I free-hand spray painted the numbers right before we sent it to tech. I had a badass Bosozoku theme planned for the Chevette, but then I traded it for a Trabant which Jay won't let me race. Not saying that's a bad decision, but If you can race a Corvette, then you should be able to race a Trabant, they're basically the same car, just the Trabant looks better.
The main reason we are in class C is that I asked Idle Clatter and Mechimike what the most reliable car was because I didn't feel like working on the race car any more. They gave me good advice, straight off of CL, three races, and no problems, but it does move with a glacial majesty. Every time that I pass another car, I get a real sense of accomplishment. My point-by finger did get quite cold at Road Atlanta though. the 87MPH top speed is really not that much on the back straight. I'll need thicker gloves if we do more winter racing.
And what the hell is class X?
Also class E should be free, including driver fees, with reimbursement for travel expenses (a business class limit to air travel for non-driving crew seems reasonable), and 100 bonus laps and a personal chef to prepare our meals all weekend (we'll need vegan options), and professional coaching by famous race car drivers, and a masseuse to help work the kinks out between stints. It'll still probably just be us and we'll lose by a huge margin, but you never know. Actually they'll probably want to put some kind of limited laps completed stipulation in there to keep out the people who aren't serious class E racers like us. Make it 100 laps (on a two-ish mile track), that should be sufficiently difficult that they'll rarely have to make good on any of that stuff.
Everybody grab your brooms, it's shenanigans!