And the Winner Is…

by Murilee Martin

Published: July 24th, 2011

With perhaps the biggest margin of victory in 24 Hours of LeMons history, the Scuderia Limoni Alfa Romeo Milano took the win on laps at the Boston Tow Party and Overhead Cam-Bake by 96 laps over the second-place Near-Orbital Space Monkeys Mustang. It was a textbook performance for the second-ever Alfa Romeo LeMons victor: no black flags, no mechanical problems, almost no driver changes or fuel stops.

Scuderia Limoni has been racing in Northeast LeMons races for several years now, and they’ve contended for an overall win on several occasions. This time, everything fell into place, the car’s sweet-sounding V6 never missed a beat, and the car wailed to victory with a comfortable 50-minute cushion over the competition.

Congratulations, Scuderia Limoni!

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Murilee Martin

Murilee Martin is the pen name of Phil Greden, a writer who has lived in Minnesota, California, Georgia and (now) Colorado. He has toiled at copywriting, technical writing, junkmail writing, fiction writing and now automotive writing. He has owned many terrible vehicles and some good ones. He spends a great deal of time in self-service junkyards. These days, he writes for publications including Autoweek, Autoblog, Hagerty, The Truth About Cars and Capital One.

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Morea on Jul 25, 2011

Viva Alfa! Viva Scuderia Limoni!

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Jellodyne on Jul 25, 2011

These looked better before they were federalized to meet crash standards with the big rubber chicken rear bumper.

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