Topic: Ratsun Racing & The WTF40
Finally got home after a VERY long road trip back from NOLA, and just wanted to say TO EVERYONE - THANK YOU!!!
My team and I were completely overwhelmed and humbled that the WTF40 won the IOE... We were not expecting IOE (maybe herioc fix after we broke both steering knuckles and had to fabricate news ones using the broken pieces and some spare roll cage tubing.)
That being said, we could not have asked for a better finale to a fantastic weekend of racing!
I contacted Jay & Phil when I originally found the F40 on Craigslist in June 2016. It was literally sitting on blocks under a guy's backyard patio. Video from the day we picked up the F40 - https://youtu.be/COQWE0AMpLs
I made them a promise nearly 2 years ago (2 years!!!) that we would have the F40 at a Lemons race as soon as we could. Well, like many of you, sometimes life gets in the way,.. but after 2 years we finally made it happen.
We knew the F40 would get a lot of attention at it's first race. We knew we'd have our share our fans & we knew we'd have our share of haters.
Honestly, I built the F40 for everyone! I built the F40 for everyone racing in Lemons. I built the F40 for everyone who is following Lemons. I built the F40 for the same reasons why Spank & Speedycop build what they build. I built the F40 to show everyone that you can go out into the world, and find that crazy, weird, most clapped out thing ever. That project car being neglected under some guys backyard patio, or that busted classic rotting away in a field somewhere. That you can bring that car home,... put your heart and soul into it,.. bring it back to life,... then take it to a race track,... and make people smile!
I hope we made the majority of you smile this weekend!
Awards or No Awards... We are here to support Lemons and we'll be back!
See you all in Houston this November
~AW