{"id":220,"date":"2010-10-10T03:28:41","date_gmt":"2010-10-10T03:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=220"},"modified":"2010-10-10T03:28:41","modified_gmt":"2010-10-10T03:28:41","slug":"detroit-lemons-day-1-over-alfa-romeo-gtv6-leads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/?p=220","title":{"rendered":"Detroit LeMons Day 1 Over, Alfa Romeo GTV6 Leads!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-11.jpg\" alt=\"ldf10-sattop-11\" title=\"ldf10-sattop-11\" width=\"600\" height=\"452\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-11.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-11-300x226.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nHow is this <em>possible?<\/em> The Corsa Nostra Alfa GTV6, veteran of massive and repeated mechanical and driving failures at several previous LeMons events, ended the day sitting in first place!<!--more--><br \/>\nThe Corsa Nostra car has racked up some major BS laps at past events, but we&#8217;d become convinced that the terrible body roll and black-flag-centric driving rendered any possible cheats harmless. Guess we were wrong! Today, this team didn&#8217;t get a single penalty, and the car didn&#8217;t break at all. How? Why?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-8.jpg\" alt=\"ldf10-sattop-8\" title=\"ldf10-sattop-8\" width=\"600\" height=\"431\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-8.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-8-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nBut it gets crazier still! The Scuderia Arugginito &#8217;69 Alfa Berlina managed to lead the race for much of the day&#8230; until a fuel leak and a couple of bad-driving penalties knocked it down to 8th place. Could it be possible that an Alfa Romeo might actually take the overall win at a 24 Hours of LeMons race?<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-2.jpg\" alt=\"ldf10-sattop-2\" title=\"ldf10-sattop-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-224\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-2.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-2-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nSitting a mere three laps behind the GTV6 is the Team Reynolds Style &#8217;94 Celica. Front-drive Celicas have done very, very badly in LeMons races; sure, they can be quick, but they almost always get sidelined by mechanical woes. Maybe not this weekend!<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-3.jpg\" alt=\"ldf10-sattop-3\" title=\"ldf10-sattop-3\" width=\"600\" height=\"469\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-3.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-3-300x234.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nThen we&#8217;ve got the Team Topless (aka Pratt &#038; Miller) Supra six laps back of the Reynolds Style car. You may remember this car as <a href=\"http:\/\/jalopnik.com\/5049676\/and-the-winner-is-the-sofa-king-toyota-supra\">the winner of the &#8217;08 Toledo race<\/a>. This is the only Top 5 car that, historically speaking, belongs near the top of the standings in a LeMons race.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-4.jpg\" alt=\"ldf10-sattop-4\" title=\"ldf10-sattop-4\" width=\"600\" height=\"422\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-4.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-4-300x211.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nMuch like the front-wheel-drive Celica, the Ford Probe has been a real LeMons heartbreaker in the past. LeMons Probes tend to be quick, but they also tend to blow the hell up after a day or so of racing. The Theta Tau Racing Probe would have to make up 19 laps to catch the leader, but stranger things have happened in LeMons.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-5.jpg\" alt=\"ldf10-sattop-5\" title=\"ldf10-sattop-5\" width=\"600\" height=\"491\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-227\" srcset=\"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-5.jpg 600w, https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/10\/ldf10-sattop-5-300x245.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><br \/>\nWhoa, <em>another<\/em> FWD Celica in the Top 5? Impossible! Somehow, Team Fiery Death has managed to keep their Toyota going around the track. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How is this possible? The Corsa Nostra Alfa GTV6, veteran of massive and repeated mechanical and driving failures at several previous LeMons events, ended the day sitting in first place!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,120],"tags":[441,470,451,133,132,125,134,135,450],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=220"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":229,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220\/revisions\/229"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/murileemartin.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}