Lamin-x was nice enough to help us out with some of their amazing light protection film. With our car racing through the night, keeping our lights crack/damage free is imperative to us staying in the race. Everyone should check out their website at Lamin-x.com for their great light protection film.

We are busy preparing the car for the 24 hour race. We’ve made some progress. We have lights. Lots more to go…

Lapping For Leukemia got the official green light today to sign up for the TRUE 24 RACE in buttonwillow. It will be June 30 – July 1 (see past post regarding the fact that this thing is going to be awesome; 24 hours straight hours of racing).

More to come soon. We’re really busy figuring out how the heck we are going to see where we are going while racing at night, since we can barely do it correctly when it is bright daytime…

We spent today removing the rear differential to see why our limited slip had turned into a full locker. After removing a few bolts from the side loader we were greeted with the unpleasant stench of burned oil (sorry David, you might need to air out the garage for a few days). As we got deeper into the dif, we were treated to the sight of a completely destroyed planetary gear. So, another day, another disaster. Monday starts work on the top end of the motor.

The honorable Jay Lamm just sent out a very important email today. The 2012 Arse-Sweat-A-Palooza in June at Buttonwillow Raceway will be a TRUE 24 HOUR RACE!!! Green flag will drop at 10am on Saturday and the checkered flag will fly at 10am on Sunday. There will be no night time downtime for motor swaps, transmission fixes, or rolling Jack and Coke delivery vehicles. Just all-out racing for 24 hours straight. The Lapping for Leukemia race car is already on its way to 24 hours of dominance.

Thanks to John for taking tons of great video and editing it together. He’s gotten part 1 uploaded. Check it out.

Team Lapping For Leukemia forgot to brush up on the rules that you have to follow when refueling the car before the race. During our first fueling stop, we had a driver in the car (not allowed) and 2 people working under the hood (HUGE no-no) while gas was being poured into the tank. Judge Johnny was not amused and sentenced the team to 30 minutes of humiliation by walking around the pits letting other teams know that we were numb-skulls. Check out the video below to see our Public Service Announcement:

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