Heartbroken, We're Missing Thompson!
In this Wildcat 445 Episode, Mental points at the wrong part, Tim can’t identify smoke, Chrissy gushes about ice cream and tells you when to shower while Chris enjoys a tepid tub.
Really, we’re a little heartbroken. Because for the first time in Everyone Racers history, none of us will be at the 24 Hours of Lemons race at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park, and naturally, the weather forecast looks fantastic.
You’re welcome.
Before the green flag drops in Thompson, Connecticut, we deliver the full race-weekend survival guide: arrival times, test day, BS and tech, the Saturday potluck, strict quiet hours, Sunday’s late start, crowded paddock logistics, trailer drop, fueling, pit vehicles, showers, and why you should leave before the golf course starts launching balls toward the paddock.
Then comes the famous Everyone Racers Virtual Track Walk.
We break down Thompson’s strange combination of road course, oval and changing pavement, including pit out, visual references, passing zones, flag stations, elevation, camber, bumps, surface transitions, traffic management and the corners most likely to punish overconfidence.
Whether you’re a Thompson rookie or have already collected trophies and broken parts there, this is the Thompson Speedway track guide to watch before the race.
More importantly, we provide critical navigation to Bogey’s Ice Cream and Snack Shop: leave the track through the parking lot, continue through the country club parking lot and go around to the back. Bring a bike, scooter or patient teammate, expect a line and respect the enormous portions.
Also, ask the rest of your team whether they want ice cream before returning alone and eating yours in front of them. That is how broken race cars become broken friendships, just ask Chrissy.
Elsewhere in Episode 445:
• Mental prepares a land-speed car with wheel smoothies, Lexan and a drag parachute he may eventually have to deploy himself.
• Tim hauls 2,100 pounds of drywall, prices $4,000 worth of insulation and welcomes his 1941 Lincoln Continental project.
• Chris rewires the Lotus, climbs Colorado fourteeners without enough water and returns to sailboat racing.
• We discuss Flock license-plate-reader failures, Waymo crash data and a Zoox robotaxi that drove into an active fire scene.
• “Show Us Your Junk” brings a BMW 6 Series race-car project, a sorted Saab 9-3 Lemons racer benefiting Ranger Road and charity seats in Paul Dolan’s 1941 Ford for Lemons of Love.
• Listener feedback proves this community can inspire rookie race teams—and turns four podcasters into spaghetti eaters using AI… err…”AL”
If you race 24 Hours of Lemons, ChampCar, Lucky Dog, SCCA, NASA or any other form of budget endurance racing, subscribe to Everyone Racers.
We’re closing in on 450 subscribers and chasing 1,000 by the end of the year. Help us get there—and send us your Thompson victories, failures, track-walk corrections, ice-cream photos and broken dreams in the comments.
Flock Cameras Still Suck (Joel felder @ The Drive)
https://www.thedrive.com/news/inside-the-flock-dragnet-how-systemic-errors-led-to-police-ambushing-me-for-no-reason?utm_source=beehiiv&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=the-drive-newsletter&_bhlid=5847afc866a665f623bf7156cfb450bd51bb6527
Waymo Still Sucks, but Apparently You Suck Worse (Stephen Edelstein @ The Drive)
https://www.thedrive.com/news/waymos-self-driving-cars-crash-less-often-than-human-drivers-study
Zoox Suck So Bad They’re recalled (Sean O’Kane @ Tech Crunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/07/17/zoox-issues-software-recall-after-a-robotaxi-got-confused-by-heavy-smoke/
BMW 6-Series Race Car - $4,800, Venice CA, with 16 pictures on Racing Junk
https://www.racingjunk.com/24-hours-of-lemons-cars-and-equipment-for-sale/184810123/6-series-race-car.html?category_id=4520&np_offset=1#10
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