24 hours of Lemons

I'm way behind on my blogs, so I'll start off with the 24 hours of lemons. Drinking heavily the night before for my birthday, I totally forgot that I had said I'd meet my friend at 8am the next morning to go spectate at the 24 hours of lemons over in Tracy, CA. So I got a call at 8am from my friend who exclaimed "What? You're still asleep!". I convinced him to come pick me up, so I got up got ready, drank some more water to try to shake the hangover off. I started feeling alot better, and grabbed a small cooler for some drinks because it was going to be hot, hot, hot in Tracy.

I got to the race around noon, and was amazed at the craziness going on. 80 cars on the track at the same time meant that there was barely any gaps between all the cars running around the track. There were a couple of hilarious cars racing out there, one had a paper mache statue of the pope riding on top of the rear hatch, a hearst, the mitsubishi (a mitsubishi mirage covered in fake fur) and a bunch of others.

The track was alot faster than we though it would be. It looks like the cars were hitting around 75mph in the back stretch. No facilities for gas, so you need to haul it yourself. There were quite a few tire punctures, a couple of car fires, and alot of dents. It looks like it'll be a fun event when we run it in october. Hopefully it won't be as hot as it was today. It was really scorching out there in the July heat.