This is an excerpt from Yokohama Arse-Freeze-Apalooza 2023 — otherwise known as last weekend's 24 Hours of Lemons race at Sonoma Raceway.

The record for the most passes by one driver, ever, in a Formula Racing SEASON is Max Verstappen. He passed 78 cars in a season.

I passed about as many cars in 17 MINUTES.

Given that I raced for about 5 hours this weekend, I likely passed 1300 cars. Which might be more than the total number of cars ever passed in every F1 race of all time, combined. THIS is why Lemons rules.

** Get a load of the grip provided by the Potenza RE-71RS tires that Bridgestone sent our team! **

Chose this 17-minute clip because it starts out with me on a mission to catch up to Car #80 "YouMadBro? Racing" — a very well-setup and well-driven E36 race car.

Took me a while to catch 'em, and then about a minute to pass 'em. But then 15 minutes to pull enough distance so that there were consistently other cars between us — which was the only way I could get him to slow down enough not to be stuck on my rear bumper.

What's clear to me is that Car #80 is faster than our poor, beat-up Car #35 in both a straight line and in the corners. But my determination and stupidity at least made up for part of it.

For the record, car's limiter is set at 7200 rpm; I rarely went over 6000 because this was such a long race and I was trying to preserve both the engine and fuel (to minimize pit stops.)

We finished 3rd overall after 333 laps. According to RaceMonitor, YouMadBro only got to 199 laps and then retired.

Shame — it was a hell of a lot of fun sparring.

Even if:
a. I went slightly off in the Bus Stop (chicane);
b. The front rotors were so warped I could barely touch the wheel under braking;
c. I was doing what I could to preserve fuel; and
d. I don't actually know what I'm doing.

That (d) is a requirement of driving in Lemons, it seems. FUN TIMES! :)