Best Pit Cuisine In LeMons History, or Why We're All Moving To Chauvin, Louisiana

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Working a 24 Hours Of LeMons race is exhausting, to put it mildly, so the LeMons HQ crew always seeks out the best pit party after a day's race session. The choice was easy last night!

Best Pit Cuisine In LeMons History, or Why We're All Moving To Chauvin, Louisiana

We first encountered this pair of E30-driving, all-Cajun teams- Piranha Racing and Shrimp Boots Racing- at the Laissez Les Crapheaps Roulez LeMons race in Louisiana. Naturally, they earned a double Organizer's Choice award for the way they fed everyone within several miles of the race track and for the all-out/all-night party they held in their compound of RVs and trailers:



Best Pit Cuisine In LeMons History, or Why We're All Moving To Chauvin, Louisiana

What kind of food? How about a gigantic pot of huge, fresh-caught shrimp, boiled with mushrooms, sausage, cauliflower, corn, and potatoes, washed down with supertanker-esque quantities of Shiner Bock? The Piranha/Shrimp Boots folks claim they eat like this all the time down in Chauvin (and Houma and Dularge), so we're all considering a move down to the bayou. Who wouldn't? In the words of our hosts: Come on, now!