And The Winner Is…

by Murilee Martin

Published: November 21st, 2010

The LeMons Traveling Circus has just made its way to the French Quarter, so I’ll cut to the chase: the Race Hard Race Ugly BMW 325iS took the win on laps at the Circuit At Grand Bayou today. Margin of victory? 8.5 seconds after 24 hours of racing.

This is the third 24 Hours of LeMons win for the Race Hard Race Ugly team, which fields a pair of E30s, and the first for this car. The Warthog Racing E30, pictured in the background in the above photo, had slightly faster lap times but just couldn’t catch up by the time the checkered flag waved. By the way, the LeMons Supreme Court gave Race Hard Race Ugly eight BS Penalty laps (a matter of some unaccounted-for new shock absorbers); just one more and they’d have lost. The drivers made zero mistakes, the car never broke, and that’s how you win an endurance race. Congratulations once again, Race Hard Race Ugly!

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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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Novaload on Nov 21, 2010

Murilee coverage of LeMons. All is right with the world again. Will there by an all E30 race?

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Jacob Brown on Nov 21, 2010

Murilee brought LeMons to TTAC. w00t!

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Eastaboga on Nov 22, 2010

I'm not even gonna admit how many BS penalty laps my team had, plus three black flags in the first 7 hours....well, like they say in Chicago, there's always next year...Thanks Murilee for the LeMons coverage!

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Domestic Hearse on Nov 22, 2010

I would like to read a LeMons story detailing the the best/worst bribes received by Murilee and Jonny over the years. And perhaps a refresher on the series itself...pretty sure most of the TTAC commentariat are acquainted with LeMons, but it's always worth a rehash of the origins, rules, penalty system, and key teams.

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