In America’s answer to Le Mans, the cars cost no more than $500, the contestants are amateur and the mood is resolutely zany
My first impression of the goofily named 24 Hours of Lemons race competition is the dead-serious din of automobiles roaring by at upwards of 100mph. I am standing behind a chain-link fence at the three-mile Thunderhill Raceway Park, just outside the northern California town of Willows. The scene is at once bucolic – the complex is surrounded by acres of pink-blossomed almond trees and lies between a pair of snow-peaked mountain ranges – and deafening.
The $1,775 entrance fee, which includes up to four drivers, is its main revenue source. Lemons also charges for additional drivers and non-drivers in the pit crew. Tickets for spectators are available too, drivers pay an annual membership fee, and Lemons makes some money selling merchandise. Lamm thinks of it as “beer-league softball for people who are interested in car racing, not baseball”. A sense of humour at Lemons is more important than the not-particularly-strict cost limit on the cars.
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