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The guys at Phase2Motortrend set us up with new extra super lightweight aluminum lug nuts from Circuit Sports. Your day will be over quite fast.Īs “racing” luck would have it, we destroyed a lug nut while blasting tires on and off the car during tire testing. The last thing you want while rolling into Turn 11 at Infineon at over 100 miles per hour is a loose fire extinguisher wedged under the brake pedal. One call to Ken from I/O Port Racing Supplies and he set us up with a double strap extinguisher mount. Luckily the damn thing didn’t go off while we were driving. We found that our tires worked great but our fire extinguisher managed to fall out of the mount and jump around the interior of the car making an awful amount of noise. While other teams suffered the wrath of the judges we decided to run some tire tests. If the judges didn’t like a team’s theme then the judges may arbitrarily help with a theme, or maybe just spray paint on your car what they really think, like “Your Theme Sux.” Teams were anxious to find out how many laps LeMons Supreme Court Judges, Jonny and Phil, were going to bestow on their “racecars” disguised as “$500 heaps.” The teams stood in the garages sweating as they held on to fake Ebay receipts and fraudulent Craig’s List ads in attempt to explain how new coil-over shocks only cost 10 dollars in Uzbekistan. Most teams jumped into the tech line at LeMons to find out if their roll-cage would pass inspection from the keen eye of John Pagel from Evil Genius Racing. The last thing our LeMons car needed was more dents and scratches. When we lowered our trailer door we were happy to find out that the new tire rack we installed in the racing trailer from Pit Posse Motorsports didn’t fall down and scratch the hood of the racecar during the long road trip to Infineon. I think our entire LeMons budget for 2011 is still less than the cost of one wheel and tire on a Ferrari. Infineon was smart enough to keep the cars separated on the track, but we did share the paddock together. I don’t think there is an example of further sides of the car culture spectrum than Ferrari F430 racing owners with their eighteen wheel trucks filled with Italian tools (yes, they really do use Italian tools to fix Ferraris) compared to our team with a rusting car trailer and a 5 gallon bucket filled with half a set of sockets from Costco. Ironically, open practice on Friday had a Ferrari club sharing Infineon with the LeMons teams. We rolled into the track on Friday and found the paddock slammed with teams. B&G Tires in Napa helped us get some deep treaded performance donuts. The wet weather was not optimal for the tires we brought which sent our team on a hunt for some solid rain tires. If we were lucky we might even get high winds and lightning. The weather forecast for the race weekend in Sonoma California was rain with possible showers. To get a real flavor for the event and be immersed in the car-nage we entered the Krider Racing Big Sausage Pizza Delivery Acura Integra. Speed:Sport:Life was there to cover the automotive mayhem represented by a 169 car Guinness Book of World record field of entrants. The racing circus that is the 24 Hours of LeMons rolled into Infineon Raceway March 26-27, 2011.