It was not a good two days to be racing around at Wakefield Park, NSW, for the 24 Hours of LeMons if you were one for illicit substances at some stage of your life.
For instance I (no admissions here) had just come out of turn 10 on to the straight when I saw a World War II Panzerkampfwagen (tank) closing fast with the gun barrel pointed directly at my head. "I shouldn't have had that last shot of grappa last night," I thought.
Then a Mercedes cleverly disguised as one of Adolf's finest (a tank, not a VW) came up alongside with the theme from Hogan's Heroes belting out. But wait there's more. The tank was followed by the Winefuelled Nissan Skyline with a barrel of red wine on the roof.
The 24 Hours of LeMons is like the Shitbox Rally on steroids. Our team decided to take a no-theme approach for our $250 machine.