Through judging and tech, no penalties and the rain stopped!

After a downright nasty morning with multiple trips into town for this and that, the team unloaded the Barbie car and wandered over to the tech and BS judging booth. The rain finally started giving us a break and the skies brightened as we snaked our way through the long line of crazy-themed cars. (There are apparently over 120 cars here!!!).

Tech was relatively uneventful, needing to fill a couple of rust holes before they would pass us, but nothing too serious. Next up came the nail-biter. The judges in their black robes looked over the car and bantered back and forth with our chief BS negotiator Tom "Major Lube" Templeman. In the end, Tom's negotiating skills (and our bribe of a nice bottle of Powers Whiskey) won the day, and team Barbie Must Win made it through with NO PENALTY LAPS!

Next up: rig up the radios, finalize some wiring, and have a big dinner/planning session to discuss our various strategy points. While we do all that, check out some pics below!

The car gets unloaded


Most of the team with the Barbie car


The rain got a little ridiculous



Some of the competition

There are a lot of cars here:


No doubt the coolest LeMons paddock area ever.


The cardboard car


The leopard-print volvo


You've seen RedBull racing... how about DedBull?


Afterburners?



Look for a race-day update tomorrow!