The rally aspect / 24h endurance is new to me, but trash car races have existed for times immemorial. Or maybe I’m not quite grasping the concept here?
Much longer than a decade, I knew some guys that did a lemons race in Illinois about 20 years ago. Wikipedia says they started up in 2006 but I could have sworn I read about those guys before then.
I didn’t want to really include the early years since it didn’t get big in the car scene until like 2010ish. Pre-2006 I wanna say it was called something else, but yea it’s been around in some form for a good long time.
I’ve only known it as 24 hours of lemons but I don’t know if they carried that name on all the races. I know the one my friends did back in the day was named the “Rod Blagojevich Never Say Die 500”. I know for a fact is a Lemons race though because Jay Lamm was there and gave them an award for something.
The rally aspect / 24h endurance is new to me, but trash car races have existed for times immemorial. Or maybe I’m not quite grasping the concept here?
It certainly looks fun though!
It’s the 24 hours of lemons. It’s been going for a good decade+ now. It’s a ton of fun.
Much longer than a decade, I knew some guys that did a lemons race in Illinois about 20 years ago. Wikipedia says they started up in 2006 but I could have sworn I read about those guys before then.
I didn’t want to really include the early years since it didn’t get big in the car scene until like 2010ish. Pre-2006 I wanna say it was called something else, but yea it’s been around in some form for a good long time.
I’ve only known it as 24 hours of lemons but I don’t know if they carried that name on all the races. I know the one my friends did back in the day was named the “Rod Blagojevich Never Say Die 500”. I know for a fact is a Lemons race though because Jay Lamm was there and gave them an award for something.