LeMons on Bloomberg

We have a TV at work that is usually set to Bloomberg. While most of the content is snoozy Wall Street news, they had a segment about 5 minutes ago on the 24 Hours of LeMons! There is a new story, too:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aM2tGfjMgOEQ

it's way more than $500

more than $500 to prep the car and run the race, sure.

not sure how i feel about Lemons getting more and more press.

I work with Pseudosport at a financial institution that has Bloomberg TV's as well. Yeah, he came running to my cube yesterday telling me he saw LeMons on the TV! Awesome.

I'm still adjusting to "real life" after running at CMP a couple weeks ago. In an ideal world, me and my best buddies who I absolutely loving being around (i.e., getting hammered with,) would be retired, and hauling some P.O.S. across the country, doing every event.

Yes, it costs more than $500 to prep the car, but if you don't berkeley it up and drive like an asshat, it's a one time cost, and from then on, it's just brakes and tires/stuff that breaks. We've done 4 events in the same car now.

Personally, I LOVE the fact that it's getting press. The more the better. In theory, more exposure means more events, and I hope to be doing this kind of thing 30 years from now.

I was talking to a buddy a couple days ago who said, all in, (entry fees, tires, maintenance, gas, hotels,) he spent roughly $6,000 on autocrossing last year...this is in a CSP Miata that hasn't trophied at nats.

I'm NOT saying any form of racing is "better" than another. I'd love to be able to afford/have the time to do it all. But for a guy on a strict budget, the bang-for-buck permagrin factor of LeMons has pretty much made me "done" with autocross.

a lot of our guys are beginning to feel the same way about autoX...it's getting in the way of crapcan racing.