How many cars get claimed? (Page 2 of 2)

I cut some of your post out and this is really in reply to the "arbitrary" thought and sentiment expressed in earlier posts.

Its NOT arbitrary.  If you're gonna get cursed, chances are you KNOW you're gonna get cursed.  First off with this new rule where more than 50% of the vote has to come in, you and your team has to seriously make an effort in overly aggressive driving and seriously being an asshat to get the curse.  You have to manage to piss off MORE THAN 50% of the field.  For example at Stafford you would need to PISS OFF over 40 teams! 

That takes some serious effort.  So think about that for a second or a while...  Think about how you drive, and your team, etc.  If you do, and you're still seriously scared your car will get crushed, do us and yourself a favor and don't come, because we probably don't want you on the track then.

We'll just have to stock a good size cooler and buy off enough votes to feel safe :-)

Maybe Friday night we'll take orders -- he he he......

We'll hit up our best driver with double shot of valium and us rooks will be required
to raid the marina around here and "borrow" all the mooring bumpers and line the car :-)

Mike

Also lending tools is a great way to generate goodwill, also free food works well, just not as good as free alcohol.

Would you vote to curse someone who didn't really deserve it?

Neither would 90% (or more) of the other people there.

One thing that I think is getting conflated here is that People's Curse = Crushed. That's not necessarily the case. Jay has a lot of discretion on this one; I can remember seeing several curses that involved an angry mob wielding hammers and dikes rather than an angry front end loader. The simple fact of taking a cheaty car off the track for an hour and letting the mob go to town on the car with hammers on the car for 15 or 20 minutes will remove the car from being a competitor and, done correctly, will keep them wrenching on the car for the next couple hours while not totally obliterating the car.

Put another way, mob justice need not result in the death penalty, but can merely result in being tarred and feathered.

Yeah except the angry mob almost ended in death last year at Stafford lol  And definitely beyond destroyed it.

Actually, they almost got that car back on track - they only needed one more piece, an airflow meter.  They had one but it was in use on thier sister car and they were trying to call them in before the race ended.

There is, and its a good lesson on getting through BS without documentation...

I heard the story second hand from one of the team members, so light on the details.  They seemed like first timers for sure and they brought a bone stock early 90s civic.  Decent car, but its perfectly reasonable to find a $500 civic if the miles are high enough.

However, everyone knows about Honda resale value, so if you're claiming a post-80's honda was $500 or less, you better be ready to back it up.  If you don't have docs, you better have a good story.

Their story: it was a used up SCCA showroom stock car that one of the kid's father/uncle/3rd cousin twice removed (i forget) raced back in the 90s. 

Seriously guys?  Sometimes its better to lie.  Telling the judges that you have an ex racecar is begging for laps, no matter how few modifications the original series allows.

Lesson learned.  If you don't have documentation, a well executed lie may be better than the truth.

PS: their theme was crap.  A good theme goes a long way.  The judges view competitors mostly as sources of entertainment (as they should).  If the hopelessness of your car isn't entertaining enough, make up for it with a good theme.

1066 for the 2005 Mini is the largest I've seen posted here.

The latest penalty lap record is for the Make:Way Escort, which got 15,100 after producing a Photoshopped eBay auction screenshot "proving" that the car had been bid up to $151,000 due to its OK Go video fame. I totally fell for it, Jay didn't; no matter, they wanted the record for most penalty laps and they got it.