24 Hours of LeMons Sears Pointless: The Winners!

Some LeMons races have a team that grabs a big lead early and never relinquishes it, while other times it's a hard-fought battle from start to finish. The third annual Sears Pointless 24 Hours of LeMons was the latter, with the first- and second-place cars separated by just a few seconds after a full weekend of racing, and the third-place car less than a lap behind them. During the 2011 LeMons season, there was a lot of talk about the Hong Norrth Mazda MX-3 (which won five races in the Gulf Region during the year) replacing the Eyesore Racing Mazda Miata as the most unbeatable team in the series, but now Eyesore has come right back and beaten 171 challengers in their first race of 2012. The Eyesores never had a comfortable lead at any time during the weekend, but they stayed utterly black-flag-free and never had a single mechanical problem. Congratulations on yet another hard-fought win, Eyesore Racing! We'll see if Hong Norrth can answer back with a win of their own. The car that had the Eyesores glancing nervously in the rear-view mirror all weekend was the Cerveza Racing BMW 533i, driven by a team that's been a threat to win every Northern California race for the last couple of years. Definitely a team for LeMons fans to watch in the future. But enough of this talk about the teams that went around and around and around all fast-robot style. The real prize in LeMons racing is the Index of Effluency, the trophy that honors the team that accomplished the most with the least raceworthy car. This was one of the toughest IOE choices we've seen in a long time, what with an Olds Brougham 88 finishing 11th, a Datsun B210 finishing 36th, and so on. But in the end, we had to give the big one to the Oly Express 1964 Plymouth Barracuda. This team managed to get 44th place in a 48-year-old Plymouth with a Chrysler slant-six engine—the 170-cubic-inch version, that is, not even the more-powerful 225-cube mill—and it did it with unbeatable style. Congratulations, Team Oly Express! from Car and Driver Blog http://blog.caranddriver.com

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