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An El Camino Through the Corkscrew At Laguna Seca
In this Olds 455 Episode: Mental can't drive a CRX Chris raw dogs the notes, Chrissy takes a stroll by the ocean And Tim learns how to use a trailer hitch.
Episode 455 is the hangover show from the 24 Hours of Lemons 20th Anniversary race at Laguna Seca; invitation only, one day, and the reason you didn't get an episode last week.
We took an El Camino through the Corkscrew. Theme was business up front, party in the back. Nine drivers, 40 minute shifts we somehow actually stuck to, 164 laps, 9th overall and 2nd in class, and it ran out of gas roughly five feet after the race, so we finished with a dance party on the roof of it.
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WHAT HAPPENED AT LAGUNA
A 280,000-mile C5 got the blue flag shown to a brand new GT3 RS with paper plates

Tim's Sunday student bought a 2015 911 with 1,600 miles on it five months ago, had never been on a track, and gathered up a full slide at the Andretti hairpin on command

The paddock didn't open to Lemons until 6pm, there are no race motors after 5 at Laguna, so the kill switch test just... happened on raceday

Our BS sheet got so soaked in beer the judge couldn't write on it with a Sharpie

Italian Job came from Philadelphia and served 300 pounds of cheesesteaks

If we missed you, we're sorry. We were drunk.

AND BEFORE ALL THAT
The Solstice transmission went in after a fight, and then had to come straight back out

A wheel bearing race against a UPS truck, lost at noon and won at 12:15

Nine miles per gallon, four days, a dog, and allegedly 24 cases of wine

Cracked sidewalls at 40,000 miles — and what the dealer quietly admitted about the compound they put on new trucks

LINKS Diecast endurance racing on a belt sander — Peter Vieira, The Autopian: https://www.theautopian.com/this-guy-is-endurance-racing-164-diecast-cars-on-a-belt-sander-and-the-cars-have-been-running-29-days-nonstop-watch-live/ 
Live timing: https://www.diecastendurance.com/ 
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bchFl18XY0o 
Denver's robotaxis can't get tickets, but are getting egged — Elizabeth Pond, The Denver Gazette: https://www.denvergazette.com/2026/10/18/denver-waymos-are-being-egged/ 
Finnish tractor pull — Stephen Edelstein, The Drive: https://www.thedrive.com/news/finnish-farmers-make-tractor-pulls-more-exciting-by-adding-a-big-hill 
Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VnwxVnR422M 
"Death Wish" on Racing Junk: https://www.racingjunk.com/golf-carts/184831980/custom-quadricycle.html?category_id=1525&np_offset=2
Everyone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate.
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106 Cars. Two Judges. One Car Shaped Like a Foot.
In the ‘Murica 454 Episode; Mental finds a large piece of pipe 4 ft down in concrete, Tim is sticky and doesn't know why, Chrissy’s car should yell at deer in the road meanwhile 
Chris is trying to figure out why the rear caliper is leaking while nothing is happening. Really Mental and Tim tell us everything that happened at the Buttonwillow race two weeks ago. Here’s a hint- it was face of the sun hot! 
A team of rookies showed up at Buttonwillow with an Acura Integra that they had turned into a giant human foot. Veins painted on it. An ankle. Somebody may or may not have drawn a Camel cigarette logo on one of the toenails. We put it in C class and we did not care what was under it.
Episode 454 is the Buttonwillow hangover: our full 24 Hours of Lemons recap from The Butt, two weeks on, now that everyone can form sentences again. 106 cars, 105 degrees, and a judging staff that started as four people and ended up as what Mental generously called a judge and a half.
The driving was bad. Really bad. Bad enough that they ran out of punishments by Saturday afternoon and started recycling them. Bad enough that Tom Webb called a mandatory Sunday morning driver's meeting, and made everyone meet at the one place on the property they'd been failing to use correctly all weekend. 
It didn't help.
The people, though, were tremendous. They always are.
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WHAT HAPPENED AT THE BUTT
Wrong-hole-itis: teams entering and exiting the track through whatever gap they liked
Four separate teams, many of them engineers, defeated by one children's jigsaw puzzle
A rookie team raising money for a dog rescue who spent a 100-degree weekend in full black ninja costumes selling fresh fruit cups. Sorry for Party felt, well, sorry and eventually gave them an EZ-up out of pity.
Tim's cool shirt failed three different ways in one stint: iced with no water, then a fitting that blew off and hosed him down, then a box nobody strapped in
The LA firefighters put on full turnout gear in 105 degrees to do a demo, then cut a car apart with the jaws of life
Sunday morning: a car shaped like a foot parked next to a car shaped like a wiener, as a visual aid
AWARDS
Dual Heroic Fix: a rookie Mini team who discovered the previous owner installed the clutch backwards, fixed it off YouTube overnight — and 30 college kids who blew up their Accord and got it back on the track Sunday to cheers
I Got Screwed: a cone kicked up by another car shattered a windshield in the driver's line of sight while they were leading C
Organizer's Choice: the foot. The judging notes read, in full, "it's a foot."
IOE: a bone stock Iron Duke S10 that had a transmission driven in from Los Angeles overnight
Everyone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate.
RX-7 and ½ at the 2003 GRM Challenge (David S. Wallens @ Grassroots Motorsports) https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/news/mazda-rx-7-and-trailer/
Mazda’s E-SUV That Hurls Obscenities (Jason Torchinsky @ The Autopian) https://www.theautopian.com/mazda-will-now-sell-you-a-car-that-enhances-your-ability-to-scream-profanitities-at-people/ 
Researchers Test AI’s  Driving Ability. Grok sucks (Adam Ismail, @ The Drive) https://www.thedrive.com/news/uh-oh-chatgpt-can-drive-a-car-and-grok-crashed-immediately
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We Held a Séance With Our Range Rover It Didn't Help.
On the second night of the Colorado Lemons Rally, we put a lit candelabra on the hood of a Range Rover & held a séance to ask the ghosts of the founders of the Rover Group why it was leaking coolant. They were unhelpful. The wax is still on the hood.
In this BMW M1 episode 453, Mental has a dusty butt, Eric makes cat/supercharger noises, Chrissy types feverishly & Chris didn’t go to public school 
Really, we talk all about our experience on the 2026 Lemons Rally Colorado Breakdown with our 2008 Range Rover & 1993 Volvo 945 turbo.  
Episode 453 is the full 24 Hours of Lemons Colorado Rally recap. Three days, eighteen cars, Denver to Craig to Grand Junction & back, with Eric Kritzler — DJ 914 — sitting in for Tim, who was busy getting sunburned at Buttonwillow. Our theme was The Coastal Elite: popped collars, boat shoes, a top hat, enormous diamond earrings, a sweater draped over the shoulders, a pocket full of fake hundred dollar bills, & three days of calling each other "my good man."
Two cars, both bought on a whim: an 18-year-old Range Rover on its fifth owner, & a 1993 Volvo 940 Turbo wagon that Eric won at auction from 1,200 miles away. The seller left the keys under the mat & wasn't there. Eric drove it 700 miles to Colorado with no working radio, in total silence, & called it cathartic.
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WHAT HAPPENED OUT THERE
At the Stanley Hotel the challenge was to recreate a scene from The Shining. Nobody planned for Chrissy to be the star. Chrissy became the star. "Here's Chrissy."
We left a note on the Range Rover's dash: the car is not broken, we'll be right back
Lunch beside a river on actual china, with a tablecloth & a candelabra, eating grocery store shrimp
A man walked up to our car in the middle of a nice town & simply got in. We took him to our Airbnb.
Handing out fake $100 bills, including to a gas station clerk who told her entire staff she'd gotten a hundred dollar tip
The awards, including a 1957 International race truck with a Volvo five-cylinder, Crown Vic suspension, no windows, & a full Austin Powers costume in the heat
ALSO IN THIS EPISODE
Lemons is racing Laguna Seca, & the 45-car field was picked by writing team names on 10mm sockets & fishing them out of a pan of used oil by hand
A Stellantis patent for an EV that ejects its own burning battery pack & drives away from it
The Batman Returns Batmobile heads to auction at $5-7 million. It's two Impala chassis welded together under hand-laid fiberglass. That's a Lemons build.
Everyone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars & drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate.
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Ever done a rally? What's the dumbest checkpoint you've been sent to? 👇
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GRM Covers Twenty Ridiculous Years of Lemons (Colin Wood @ Grassroots Motorsports)  https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/news/for-the-first-time-24-hours-of-lemons-races-at-laguna-seca/ 
 
Your Future EV Might Eject It's battery Pack & Drive Away from It 
(Peter Vieira @ The Autopian)  https://www.theautopian.com/your-future-ev-might-use-its-12-volt-battery-and-exploding-bolts-to-drive-away-from-its-flaming-main-battery-patent/ 
Micheal Keaton’s Batmobile Heads to Auction (Jerry Perez @ The Drive)  https://www.thedrive.com/news/the-batmobile-that-michael-keaton-hustled-in-batman-returns-could-fetch-7m 
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Eighty percent of the incidents at Buttonwillow happen at one corner. It's a slight rise, the curve keeps going as you climb it, and there's a flag station at the top holding all the information about whatever tragedy is waiting on the other side. It's called Phil Hill. Don't be a statistic on it.
Episode 452 is a big one: our full 24 Hours of Lemons Buttonwillow preview, yes, The Butt, plus the results from NCM and everything you need for the Colorado Lemons Rally. In this old Russian Van Episode 452; Chris double twangs ratchet straps
Chrissy requires you to bring something other than grapes to the rally dinner
Tim aka, Ol’ asbestos balls, is at it again while Accu-Mental warns you of the weather at Buttonwillow raceway, AKA The Butt.
106 cars are entered at Buttonwillow this weekend. Tim is racing it, Mental is judging it, and we walk all 13 turns of the clockwise layout; Sunrise, Off Ramp, Cotton Corners, Grapevine, Club Corner, Bus Stop, Truck Stop, Riverside, Phil Hill, Sweeper, Star Mazda, the Esses and Sunset. Also with the schedule, the gate fee nobody expects, and the Accu-Mental Forecast. Short version on the weather: 99 on Thursday, and no, you do not want that rain you're wishing for. It turns the place into peanut butter and adds thirty pounds to your car.
Meanwhile Chris and Chrissy are hosting AND running the Colorado Lemons Rally, which launches from their driveway. There is a five-foot hole in the yard. There is caution tape. We are all a little worried.
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FROM NCM (BOWLING GREEN, KY)
Team Non Sequitur took the overall lead with under 15 minutes left
Mom's Friendly Racing Company was 8th overall with 15 minutes to go, blew up, and finished the race on jack stands leaking into a drip pan. We made them push it to the awards ceremony and keep leaking in front of everybody.
Heroic Fix: a dad drove 600 miles home to Alabama for a charge pipe. He left his son at the track.
A team climbed a barbed-wire fence at 5:30 in the morning to retrieve another team's forgotten tires
IOE: drag racers who'd never turned left or right showed up with a fist-sized hole in the bell housing patched with wire mesh and JB Weld. They ran 230+ laps.
97 degrees and humid, the most fueling issues anyone could remember at a Lemons race
ALSO IN THIS EPISODE
A 50th-annual figure-8 championship that ended in two felony counts.
A Waymo that spent ten minutes afraid of a puddle, and another that drove through a farmers market.
A Jeep that lost its axle brackets in Moab and got ratchet-strap fixed to drive 150 miles home
Tim's clutch disintegrated into itchy fuzz, and the internet had thoughts
Remembering Lemons staffer Rob Anders
Everyone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate.
Email: everyoneracers@gmail.com Instagram / Facebook: @everyoneracers
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Figure 8 Championship results in 2 Felony Charges (Adam Ismail @ The Drive) https://www.thedrive.com/news/figure-8-race-devolves-into-chaos-and-a-driver-felony-charge 
  
Waymo Scared of the Water (Lousi Casiano @ Fox Business)  
https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/video-shows-waymo-driverless-vehicle-stuck-ai-loop-flooded-phoenix-street 
Waymo Drives through a Denver Farmers Market https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/waymo-caught-on-video-driving-through-south-pearl-farmers-market-during-setup  
 
Triangulated Ratchet Straps get 4 wheeler 150 home (David Tracy @ The Autopian) 
https://www.theautopian.com/how-an-off-roader-replaced-his-jeeps-broken-suspension-with-ratchet-straps-then-drove-150-miles-home/ 
 2002 SS Camaro for $6k in Ephrata PA on Racing Junk
https://www.racingjunk.com/24-hours-of-lemons-cars-and-equipment-for-sale/184797033/

Your Light Bar Will Fail. Here's What Actually Passes Tech
In this episode Mercedes Rally SLC 450; Chrissy has never raced at night, Chris did not fix the boat, but Mental did fix the 912 and Tim is paking up to drive across country….again. And if you show up at High Plains Raceway with a light bar on your roof, you are going to fail light tech. If you tape over the top of it, you are still going to fail. There is a light meter, there are measuring boards, and there is a hard 40-inch cutoff.
Episode 450 is our full 24 Hours of Lemons High Plains Raceway preview — and this one is a true 24-hour race. Green flag at noon Saturday, checkers at noon Sunday, running straight through the night on a completely unlit track thirty minutes from the nearest anything. Ninety cars are entered. Chris, Chrissy and Tim are racing it. Mental is one of the four judges who will be holding the light meter.
We cover the race car lighting rules in detail, the complete weekend schedule from Thursday gates to Sunday awards, the weather for Deer Trail, Colorado, night-driving technique for your first race in the dark, and our patented E1R Virtual Track Walk — every corner at High Plains, from three people who've raced it.
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WHAT'S IN THIS EPISODE
The lighting rules that will actually get you black flagged, explained by the guy checking them

Why your stock headlights are the best answer, and why lights and wiring don't count against your $500

All numbers self-illuminated — door plus hood and/or roof. No, you can't shine a magnetic light at them.

Full schedule: Thursday night test session, Friday's two test sessions, assigned tech times, mandatory light tech Friday 8:00–9:30

Weather: gusts to 33 Thursday night. Secure your EZ-ups or watch them leave.

Night driving: tinted visors, dazzle, letting your eyes adjust, and why you keep your eyes moving in the dark

Turn by turn at High Plains — including the High Plains Drifter, the corner Chrissy openly hates

How to read the LED flag boards at night, and why a flashing "green" is never green

Grassroots Motorsports Ultimate Track Car: an F-18 pilot who listed his cat as a sponsor

The Austin robotaxi with no brake fluid, no master cylinder, and no brake lines anywhere in it

Everyone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate.
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Navy Pilot’s Ultimate Track Car Sponsored by his cat..’Beans” (Colin Wood @ GRM)
https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/news/utcc-confirmed-impreza-wrx-sti-sponsored-by-a-cat-named-beans/ 
Tesla Decides with DOT rules apply to it's Cyber taxis (Andrew Collins @ The Drive) 
https://www.thedrive.com/news/tesla-cybercab-isnt-just-missing-a-steering-wheel-it-doesnt-even-have-brake-lines  
A Drive by wire remote control tractor….from the 80’s Caleb Jacobs @ The Drive)
https://www.thedrive.com/news/kubotas-remote-control-tractor-was-an-80s-flop-this-guy-just-found-a-survivor 
‘Almost’ Lemons Race Ready MR2 on Racing Junk!
https://www.racingjunk.com/24-hours-of-lemons-cars-and-equipment-for-sale/184796683/almost-ready-for-lemons.html 
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