My weekend at Lemons was awful; now I have AIDS
I'm writing this so everyone can see that it's not all great like the Miagra team and that it's really hard to get your foot in the door to this if you don't build the car yourself. The theme around the DFW Miata crew was, "Trey, why didn't you get on a better team?!?!" Well, that's because no one wants a novice on their team, so you basically have to build your own car to get started.
My lemons weekend:
- Show up Friday morning at the track, I'm told to go help with the car 1-hour south...they said it was 15-minutes south.
- Car is not ready, so I fucking worked on it from 8-11am
- We get to the track and these idiots did not wire-in a kill switch so I did that
- I couldn't even get these idiots to zip-tie a timer into the car. Fucking retarded.
- I was told they bought tires...they bought used tires in the barrio.
- We finally get through tech to realize, the team owner never paid for the test day we were trying to run
- The next day, I discovered the tires were from the barrio and not the Dirrezzas I told them to order
- We looped the car three times in 5 laps
- I took the car out and discovered the tires they had were soooooo old, they were like plastic, car is dangerous.
- I get back to find they never hooked up the front sway bar, car owner refuses to hook it up.
- So they decide to go buy tires, but they only brought 1 jack stand., solution is to tow the car to the tire shop.
- Car won't start at the tire shop
- They come back, decide to put the shitter tires on
- I packed my shit up and left.
- I get a text where they took the car out looped it, sat for one hour
- Then, they took the car out at the end of the day and apparently they never torqued the wheels, so the front wheel fell off and they crashed into two cars.
- The team was told to never return and Lemons people did not want to see their faces at the track tomorrow.
I'm never doing that shit again. This car was the scariest, most dangerous car I've ever driven. We would have known this if the first test day were not lost to a car that would not start because wire the ground into the kill switch, or if the second test day weren't lost because the brake lines were dry and they didn't know why.
The next time I go W2W it will be in a kart and finally a car I build for PTE. I originally did this to get some W2W experience so I could drive with RHarris at their next Chump race. I knew these guys were idiots and should have bailed a long time ago, but I really wanted to get on track before running Chump with my buddies. Now, I am not really sure I want to do this whole "crap car endurance racing" thing. I want to drive cars that handle well and are safe.
It's going to be a very, very long time before I get back into a car for fun again.
