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Our podcast this week focuses on our race weekend at NHMS with the 24 Hours of Lemons teams.\xa0 We had a bit of a struggle getting ready, but the cars eventually cooperated and raced well, at least for a bit.\xa0 In the end, we had a great time and caught up with a lot of friends and made several new ones this weekend.

On this episode, Alan, Jennifer, Kate, Vicki and Bill are still recuperating from the race weekend hangover, but did manage to discuss:

1. Vicki learns the alphabet, finally.
2. Pre-race prep and race car struggles.
3. We broke the first rule of racing and brought an non-prepped car to the track
4. El Jeffe/The Bad Hombre/The Trophy Truck/Race Truck was finished literally hours before the race.
5. The E36 BMW struggle did not complete until midday Friday afternoon when our great friend Bruce figured out a simple electrical issue that we could not find on our own
6. We had to pick up a windshield, which was in Canada
7. Bill learns to not joke with the border police
8. Normal race induced issues led to a lot of on track repairs and replacement for the race truck, especially related to our steering, power steering, and steering rack.
9. SpiderStang was almost brought into race trim since we had all hands on deck and needed two cars
10. We rolled the dice and brought the E36 to the track and hoped we could fix it with the aide of our friends in the paddock area
11. Friday testing went well with El Jeffe and we were able to get almost all of our new to NHMS drivers
12. Jennifer clears all prior NHMS demons from last year
13. Kate enjoys her first time on this track and then promptly has internet issues in mid story
14. Jennifer is very excited and saw many benefits of the Watkins Glen HPDE we sent to two weeks ago.
15. We may finally have solved our braking issue with the El Jeffe race truck
16. Bill creates a new word for the dictionary
17. Bruce saved our team having to get another engine and perform and engine swap by solving our issue and getting the engine in the E36 to fire.
18. Bill confirms that by fire, they meant to get it running and not that it had caught on fire.
19. Special thanks to the Thunder for Days team in their Folgers E36 BMW for all their assistance as well.\xa0 Apparently, they travel with an entire parts tore worth of spare parts to each race.\xa0 Thankfully.\xa0 And Wisely.\xa0 We owe you all.
20. Our one time only Guitar Heroes In Training Theme for this race
21. Vicki confuses AC/DC and Kiss somehow
22. Mia tormented Craggier as the Plague Doctor all weekend
23. Several other teams were theming hard this weekend including appearances by the Three Pedal Mafia\u2019s Ambiguously Gay Duo themed new Pontiac Solstice and the entire gang that represented Baby Shark.
24. Jennifer\u2019s costume was very helpful in getting our cars to have no penalty laps
25. Harley Quinn and the harlequin GTI were also a big hit, ad it was quite fast on the track.
26. We had a run on power steering pumps for the race truck this weekend, using three total, and we also lost the steering rack/box
27. We then run through the race for the race truck and then for the E36 race car
28. NHMS this year was the most aggressive race we have been in and there were many incidents, especially Saturday
29. We also had a Guest driver this weekend, Jeff Wright, who we met at our Lucky Dog race in Portland this summer.\xa0 We hope he had a great time.\xa0 His smiles
30. Our wheel spacers led to tire tracking issues in the El Jeffe race truck
31. We eventually (think) we lost the steering rack and had some steering difficulty that eventually led to the race truck parking for the last half of Sunday
32. Jennifer gets here first black flag in the race truck
33. Bill ran first in the E36 on Saturday and raced with several of our friends on the track for long periods of time
34. We peaked at 5th place overall, our highest position ever.\xa0 Now we need to figure out how to stay there for the whole weekend.\xa0
35. We learn that there are two different style safety harnesses/safety belts
36. Saturday night dinner and post-race festivities
37. Vicki finally meets her girl crush, Amanda Tully, in full costume, in the Three Pedal Mafia\u2019s hot tub, built for 4, but somehow managed to squeeze in 9 that evening.\xa0 \xa0Hopefully, we will have her on as a future guest.
38. The festivities went long into the night.
39. Alan eventually gets into a on race CSI investigation that gets edited out a bit.
40. Vicki proves that numbers are hard
41. We end up talking all over each other during the review of Alan\u2019s Sunday stint
42. The Egan\u2019s new car modifications led to a lot of fun but also a lot more gas usage
43. We ended our day in the BMW E36 when we lost either a wheel bearing and/or a hub
44. Team improvements for next year were abundant
45. Radios for each team member if possible
46. Earlier starting prep on race day morning with more people
47. Training matrix will be developed and monitor our progress towards overall team knowledge and skill improvement for next year and the future
48. New Pit Crew Chief election for 2010 season is very likely
49. Spares parts for the BMW for next season
50. On site car alignment verification capability within our team
51. We begin planning our off season and our 2020 season, including re-theming several cars for the 2020

Thank you to all our friends, we cant wait to see you again next season!