24 hours of Lemons?
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http://www.24hoursoflemons.com/
Heard Bismarck is doing something like this weekend before the ND500. Rules are pretty interesting;
6: LOUSY DRIVING
•6.1: Individual Lousy-Driving Rule: Lousy driving--which includes, but is not limited to, unnecessary contact, overly aggressive driving, chopping off other cars, unsportsmanlike conduct, lack of car control, just generally being an idiot, and/or proving an undue pain in the butt to fellow competitors--will result in a black-flag penalty for Lousy Driving. These penalties will be punished as follows:
•6.1.1: First Individual Lousy-Driving Offense: Mandatory driver change; offending driver can't return to the track for three hours.
•6.1.2: Second Individual Lousy-Driving Offense: Driver loses his wristband for the rest of the day.
•6.1.3: Third Individual Lousy-Driving Offense: Driver is out for the rest of the season, beginning immediately.
•6.2: Team Lousy-Driving Rule: Teams are held jointly accountable for the Lousy Driving Offenses earned by their drivers. These penalties are punished as follows.
•6.2.1: First Lousy-Driving Offense: Mandatory driver change, 30-minute vehicle impound.
•6.2.2: Second Lousy-Driving Offense: One-hour impound.
•6.2.3: Third Lousy-Driving Offense: Four-hour impound.
•6.2.4: Fourth Lousy-Driving Offense: Just put your ass back on the trailer.
•6.3: Why Am I Upside-Down? Rule: You're upside-down because you have no business being out on a racetrack. Any driver who puts a car on its roof is out for the rest of the season, beginning immediately. Any car that rolls during a race will be removed from the race.
•6.4: Touching a Temporary Barrier: Physically contacting a cone, tire barrier, or any other temporary structure placed on the track by the organizers is an automatic Lousy Driving Offense With Extreme Prejudice. (You don't even want to know what that means.) -
Chumpcar challenge is coming through Brainerd too...
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Ive read about this before. As per the rules, it sounds kinda expensive/hokey.
PRICE
Entry: $500 per car + $100 per driver + $75 for non-drivers. (Each team must have 4-6 drivers.) This fee covers registration, track time, paddock pass, track insurance, on-site ambulance crew, sweatshop-made commemorative crap, and anything else we come up with by then. Non-driving team members get all the same bennies except track time.•1.1: Organizer Decisions: Organizer's decisions are final. If you don't like it, tough. Get your own race.
•1.4: Claiming Race: At the end of the competition, the organizer--and nobody else, you lazy, better-car-wantin' bastids--may elect to purchase any vehicle from its owner(s) for $500. In other words, don't spend a lot on a cheater, cause if you do, you ain't gonna own it much longer.
•1.6: Your Car May Be Destroyed at Any Time: In addition to accidents and other unfortunate boo-boos, one car may be selected by blind ballot of all teams for immediate removal and total destruction. It could be your car. It probably WILL BE your car. You'll have 30 minutes to yank out any safety items you want to rescue, and then it's toast. Them's the breaks. Don't bring it if you ain't OK with losing it.
So you spend up to $500 for the car, another 500 just to register it, and then another hundred for the privilege of being a driver (75 for pit crew)
so that is $1100 bucks, and theres a chance (rule 1.6) that the car will be destroyed even before competition? Theres zero chance of any sort of reimbursement.
I understand that these rules were written with the idea of them being comedic, but still, lots of rights are reserved by the show and it seems you could really get screwed.
winner of the whole thing gets $1500? so depending on how many drivers/pit members you have, there is a good chance you could win the whole shittery and still end up losing money. I realize that most people are doing this for fun and not money (kinda like a demo derb except this is much more expensive), but when its so expensive to begin with, it seems that first place should be winning something more sizeable than a maximum of $400 profit (and that number is highly unlikely). It would make more sense if the winner got a percentage related to the number of cars entered.
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Briggs&Stratton;304312 wrote:
Ive read about this before. As per the rules, it sounds kinda expensive/hokey.PRICE
Entry: $500 per car + $100 per driver + $75 for non-drivers. (Each team must have 4-6 drivers.) This fee covers registration, track time, paddock pass, track insurance, on-site ambulance crew, sweatshop-made commemorative crap, and anything else we come up with by then. Non-driving team members get all the same bennies except track time.•1.1: Organizer Decisions: Organizer's decisions are final. If you don't like it, tough. Get your own race.
•1.4: Claiming Race: At the end of the competition, the organizer--and nobody else, you lazy, better-car-wantin' bastids--may elect to purchase any vehicle from its owner(s) for $500. In other words, don't spend a lot on a cheater, cause if you do, you ain't gonna own it much longer.
•1.6: Your Car May Be Destroyed at Any Time: In addition to accidents and other unfortunate boo-boos, one car may be selected by blind ballot of all teams for immediate removal and total destruction. It could be your car. It probably WILL BE your car. You'll have 30 minutes to yank out any safety items you want to rescue, and then it's toast. Them's the breaks. Don't bring it if you ain't OK with losing it.
So you spend up to $500 for the car, another 500 just to register it, and then another hundred for the privilege of being a driver (75 for pit crew)
so that is $1100 bucks, and theres a chance (rule 1.6) that the car will be destroyed even before competition? Theres zero chance of any sort of reimbursement.
I understand that these rules were written with the idea of them being comedic, but still, lots of rights are reserved by the show and it seems you could really get screwed.
winner of the whole thing gets $1500? so depending on how many drivers/pit members you have, there is a good chance you could win the whole shittery and still end up losing money. I realize that most people are doing this for fun and not money (kinda like a demo derb except this is much more expensive), but when its so expensive to begin with, it seems that first place should be winning something more sizeable than a maximum of $400 profit (and that number is highly unlikely). It would make more sense if the winner got a percentage related to the number of cars entered.
You also need a rollcage, and you have to buy fireproof driving suits, helmets and safety equipment.
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Briggs&Stratton;304312 wrote:
winner of the whole thing gets $1500?And divide by how many drivers you have.
DelSlow;304330 wrote:
After reading that...this sounds retarded.Looks like you don't have to worry bout it!
•2.4: Whiner Eligibility. Whiners are not eligible to compete. If you believe that you might be a whiner, please check with a domestic partner, guardian, or health-care professional before getting the rest of your team kicked the hell out of the race.
Entry fee seems a bit too steep.
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