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The checkered flag waved, the trophies were handed out, and now the 24 Hours of LeMons carnies are hosing out the Tilt-a-Whirl and packing the gear for South Carolina. When Sunday's race session started, the BenzGay Mercedes-Benz 300E had a semi-comfortable lead… but a lot can happen in an endurance race.
With a nine-lap lead and about two hours to go, the BenzGay car nuked its differential. With no spare handy, the team was done. That put the Z-Wrecks 1981 Datsun 280ZX in the lead, and the 31-year-old Datsun never faltered after that. When the checkered flag came out, Z-Wrecks had beaten the second-place Namco Miata by seven laps.
Black Gold!
The top prize of LeMons racing, the Index of Effluency, goes to the team that accomplishes the greatest feat with the most terrible car. Once the Turbo Style Chevy Sprint flipped over Saturday afternoon, there was never any doubt about who would get the IOE. The barn-find 1972 Mazda RX-2 (which had a collapsed barn removed from it, rather than being removed from a barn) of Team Sensory Assault was very, very slow and pitted for repairs with great frequency… but it ran more or less all weekend.
It wasn't exactly running at the very end (stalling out on the final lap of the race) but Sensory Assault pushed it the final few hundred feet. Congratulations, Z-Wrecks and Sensory Assault!
from Car and Driver Blog http://blog.caranddriver.com |
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