The LeMons race season has entered a particularly crazy stretch, due to the break triggered by Chief Perp Lamm's wedding, and so we have races on back-to-back weekends. Here are the results from last weekend's New Orleans event.
We experienced zombies, alligators, drive-thru daiquiris, exhaust-cooked ribs, 10,000 percent humidity, a Hemi-powered '51 Saratoga, drag racing, and many E30s in the hunt for the overall win. Have the E30 racers finally solved their cars' nagging reliability problems, or are we just witnessing the results of a Darwinian culling of the weaker Bavarians? Either way, we saw the second-ever multiple LeMons winner, and a German Index Of Effluency winner gave the awards ceremony a decidedly Teutonic cast. The enervatingly swampy weather sapped the will to wrench from many teams whose vehicles crapped out early— including the Integra that was knocking off laps about five seconds quicker than the next-quickest competitor— and that led to quite a few teams giving up on racing and retreating to the blessedly thrown-rod-free French Quarter. We'd never see that sort of attitude in South Carolina or California, but life moves at a different pace in the bayou.
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1. Race Hard Race Ugly #93, BMW 325iS
Overall Winner
2. Red Rocket Ratnest Revival, Ford Taurus SHO
Winner, Class Bad
3. Team Operation, BMW 318i
Winner, Class Good
4. Live Oak Nudist Resort II, BMW 320i
5. Who Dat! Piranha-n-Chitlins, BMW 325e
6. Speed Racer & the Racing Rednex, Ford Mustang
Winner, Least Horrible Yank Tank award
7. Team HOR, Nissan Sentra SE-R
8. FUBAR Racing, Ford Escort ZX2
9. Kentucky Fried Racing, Honda Civic
Winner, Class Ugly
10. Race Hard Race Ugly #94, BMW 325iS
11. Boner Motorsports, Ford Probe
12. Mostly Harmless Racing, Volkswagen Karmann Ghia
Winner, Index Of Effluency
13. Cupcake Racing, Ford Thunderbird
14. TDH Motorsports, Ford Mustang
15. TWSS Racing, Nissan 240SX
16. Who Dat! Shrimp & Boots, BMW 325e
Winner, Heroic Fix award
17. Warthog Racing, BMW 325e
18. Team Sensory Assault, Mazda RX-7
Winner, Organizer's Choice
19. www.team8racing.com, Porsche 924
20. GT$500 Racing, Toyota Celica
21. The Whip-Its, Datsun 280ZX
22. Tetanus Neon, Dodge Neon
Winner, Grassroots Motorsports Most From The Least award
23. Team Danger Ranger, Ford Ranger
24. Krewe of Wrecks, Nissan 300ZX
25. Rolling Chicane Racing, Honda Civic
Winner, I Got Screwed award
26. Ludicris Speed, Volkswagen Jetta
27. Prancing Donkeys, Acura Integra
28. Team Petty Racing (Celebrity Team Impersonated), Dodge Daytona
29. Altimate Annihilation, Nissan Altima
30. @*%!? Unknowns, Pontiac Fiero
31. 240 Racing, Nissan 240SX
32. Team Blue Goose 2, Volkswagen Rabbit
33. NSF Racing, Chrysler Saratoga
Winner, Judges' Choice award
Disclosure: Murilee Martin gets paid crazy baksheesh (and, if he plays his cards right, a fully restored De Tomaso Longchamp) for his work on the LeMons Supreme Court.
