Where did the Florida races go?

The last Florida race according to the results pages was in 2014.

The forum here won't be able to give you an absolute answer as to why any particular track is dropped from the list. The usual subjects are schedule availability and profitability.

Hope you can find a way to make it work out for you!

Crap. I looked up the results and 27 people showed. But it looks like they did it in July which would definitely be why. Huge car culture down here. But I’m July it is hotter than hell during a personal injury lawyer convention and it has a monsoon every day from 1-3 followed by the worst humidity you have ever felt. Then add fire suits and asphault. So that is my guess as to why. They really need to try again but in the winter.

That makes sense but running in cold and standard rain or even dessert heat is easier to deal with than the absolute monsoons and soul crushing heat/humidity that we get in July and August. There has to be some sort of middle ground.

There doesn't really. A place like Sebring or Daytona can do as they wish. Especially since they have maintenance standards for BIG races that they need to cover when a bunch of dingbats go out and oil their track down and dent all their barriers with their crapcans. Or abandoned tipped over gas powered bar stools that found their way out on the track in the middle of the night. (god Summit Point was a great event)

There's is maybe 3 or 4 actually good weather races a year in Lemons. We don't get first dip at the schedule because I suspect most venues would rather host a lazy HPDE or half empty Club event full of hotel racers than choke down the garbage can and portajohn overloading 3 day circus of bacon and single use Harbor Freight Popup refuse. Also Lemons is an expensive outlay since it's all paid help run not a club/volunteer operation so that means venue costs have to be lower to stay in the black on a weekend.

And as long as the small track owners in Florida just want Left Turn only tracks, Sebring, Daytona, and Palm can charge what they like and still book up early. You live in circle track country.

That being said, the Sebring race was amazing, and the monsoon was only a little inconvenient. AND I DROVE FROM OHIO, so.....unfortunately travel is a part of a lot of people's Lemons experience. My CLOSEST event is 6 hours away.

The races haven't worked out well in florida.  Lemons even once got protested and had to change the name of a race.  The turn out at sebring meant that race was  a pretty big financial loss.  Probably figuring at this point that it isn't worth scheduling races in Florida.  Maybe if the NOLA race starts pulling in big numbers they will look to expanding into Florida again.

Lemons went to PBIR on New Year's Eve 2010. Lemons is never going back to that place.

Story time?

I think it's Story Time!

yea https://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/car- … Fnxn0lbcP/

And I was there! 

PBIR was/is a fun track, but their staff was NOT ready for a Lemons-sized crowd, and it was a fustercluck for sure.  We arrived about 6:00am to get in line in an attempt to get a decent paddock spot.  About 11:00am Jay shows up and asks why we are all still outside the gate?  Because they won't let us in....DUH!  Next they were attempting to park everyone in a particular spot and that turned into a total sh!t show as well.  Jay was not happy about the whole ordeal, which is why I assumed we'd never go back.

I thought the idea of a 24 hour race in southern Florida at New Years was awesome! The reality of getting there was not. I wish I had made that race.

The Unplugged timing loop no less!

It jumped the literal air gap from the wire to the plug.

Lightning be crazy!