Sears Pointless, what a success! (Page 2 of 2)

Can you believe he drove that dang thing all the way up from the grapevine? They lost the transmission in their tow rig, so they dropped the car, threw all the spare tires and parts in the back and off he went! Nearly had to pry Joe's (?) frozen fingers off the wheel when he got here in the dark of night.

A major oversight however, was forgetting to include their cooler full of beer. Not to worry, disaster averted when we donated some of Free-Range's leftover suds left behind from a previous race/fiasco.

My hat is off to you fanatical Saab owners. You have proven yourselves MUCH crazier than us MG folk.

I want to thank all of you guys for making my first Lemons experience a great one.

I flew out from Virginia to hook up with my little brother, my uncle, and a good family friend for this race. They purchased an 85 RX7 (the one with the zombie on the hood) specifically for this race and it was great to us. We ran stock suspension and terrible tires and had the time of our lives.

For each of us it was our VERY first time on a track. I have made many quarter mile passes but never a road course. We improved dramatically over the two days taking our average lap time from 3:15 on day 1 to 2:50 on day 2. I even posted our fastest time of 2:35 on my last pass.

We had very few incidents the entire time. I went off course 1 time, our entire team only made contact with another car twice, and we only had 2 black flags for passing on yellow and me going off course.

I have to admit, our entire team was blown away by your driving abilities. You guys are freakin good man. I came into this very cocky thinking that I would be able to hang. It became very apparent that I have NO idea what Im doing lol. You guys quickly put our whole team in its place.

Anyway, this whole thing was amazing. The drivers, the pit members, Jay Lamm and his whole crew, everyone was just awesome.

This will NOT be my last Lemons. Im looking to put together an East Coast crew so I hope to see some of you out there!

-Matt and the Crash Test Zombies.

this is my first race of any sort and i had a great time.  it was really great seeing the Citroen team win the IOE.  i bought my mini from their team captain four or five years ago.  he's a hell of a mechanic and all around great guy.

I came up on Sunday to check out the racing (after having also skived off from work early on Friday to watch tech and practice - shhh, don't tell), and it was a total success.  Here's what I thought rocked -

- spring in Northern California.  March was/is the perfect time for a Sears Point race.
- free coffee and Twinkies - thanks to Caffeine Unlimited and the Fat and the Furious!
-  the track layout with the dogleg made for great spectating, gave that part of the race that old-school Altamont dogfight feeling, but still let the rest of the track be fast and challenging.
- the Wine Box Country Classic added to the spectator appeal, since we could watch the black flag penalties unfold, then check out those other fine machines when the action slowed down.
- and, most of all, the start before the Sunday race:

Did anyone else get to watch the cars enter the track from the paddock?  The 'other' Jaguar (not the Pendjero XJS HE, the SBC/'tractor'-engined XJ6) turned left onto the track preentry, gassed it up, completely lost the back end, and ended up facing right back the way he came - ready for the slow crawl back into black flag!  Oh, the shame!

Aww man, now you've gone and given our fearless leader a big head.  Next thing you know he'll start thinking we can actually race out there!