I visit Sears Point aka Sonoma Raceway a couple times a year as part of my gig as Chief Justice of the 24 Hours of LeMons Supreme Court. That means I do a lot of roaming around the facility, in search of vantage points to shoot photos of the action. Last weekend, while covering the fourth annual Sears Pointless race, I stumbled on a parking area outside a line of race shops just on the other side of the wall near Turn 10. Inside these shops were all manner of high-buck machines, but the get-to-it-someday stuff sitting outside was pretty interesting. (Read More…)
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Tagged as 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, BMW 850, Ford Maverick, Lotus Europa, Project Car, Project Car Hell, Sears Point, Yugo
Tagged as 1940s, 1960s, 1970s, BMW 850, Ford Maverick, Lotus Europa, Project Car, Project Car Hell, Sears Point, Yugo
It was a long, hot, crazy, metal-crunching day at Infineon Raceway today, with cars bashing into walls and each other, shooting rods through hoods, catching on fire, and generally reducing the world’s stock of sub-$500 beaters. Still, some of the 171 Skankaway Anti-Toe-Fungal 500 24 Hours of LeMons teams managed to keep running, and when the session ended we had some familiar faces in the top five. 
The full name of this weekend’s race at Sears Point aka Infineon Raceway is 
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