Posted by leo | Posted in Uncategorized | Posted on 04-12-2009
We really do mean $500 cars.
Welcome to The Road to Chumpcar! Gabe invited me to help contribute to this here web log. We hope to chronical the trials and tribulations of starting a crap-can racing team and getting into the sport.
What is crap-can racing you say? It only the most accessible form real paint trading wheel to wheel road racing… [clarkson] in the world [/clarkson]. You bring a group of idiots team of brave individuals to compete in a true 24 hour endurance (Le Mans style) race with a $500 car. An organization called the The 24 Hours of LeMons helped bring the sport to this country several years ago. More recently a similar series ChumpCar is also offering events. Since ChumpCar is the only one at our home track (Portland International Raceway) we will be aiming for them for our first couple of entries. Luckily both series share the same spec of car so whatever we build should be eligible at both kinds of events.
We have finalized our core team and our car. Moving forward I hope to update this regularly and try to back-fill when I get some time.
Welcome!
