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When you've been around 24 Hours of LeMons racing for a while, you get a sense of the love/hate relationship that LeMons racers have with BMWs. That is, many LeMons racers love to race BMWs, and the other racers want the LeMons Supreme Court to hammer every 3-series and 5-series with hundreds of penalty laps. BMWs don't actually dominate the race— for every E30 that finishes in the top ten, there are a dozen more that get owned by Ford Festivas and Toyota Paseos— but the sheer quantity of Bavarian machines means that plenty of them are very quick. This means that a contending team that wants to run a new-ish 3- or 5-series had better come up with some original theme ideas for their car if they want to emerge from the BS Inspection process with zero penalty laps. Black Iron Racing did just that with their E36 3-series at last weekend's Arse-Sweat-a-Palooza race. Read full story »
from Car and Driver Blog http://blog.caranddriver.com
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