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Eighty percent of the incidents at Buttonwillow happen at one corner. It's a slight rise, the curve keeps going as you climb it, and there's a flag station at the top holding all the information about whatever tragedy is waiting on the other side. It's called Phil Hill. Don't be a statistic on it.Episode 452 is a big one: our full 24 Hours of Lemons Buttonwillow preview, yes, The Butt, plus the results from NCM and everything you need for the Colorado Lemons Rally. In this old Russian Van Episode 452; Chris double twangs ratchet strapsChrissy requires you to bring something other than grapes to the rally dinnerTim aka, Ol’ asbestos balls, is at it again while Accu-Mental warns you of the weather at Buttonwillow raceway, AKA The Butt.106 cars are entered at Buttonwillow this weekend. Tim is racing it, Mental is judging it, and we walk all 13 turns of the clockwise layout; Sunrise, Off Ramp, Cotton Corners, Grapevine, Club Corner, Bus Stop, Truck Stop, Riverside, Phil Hill, Sweeper, Star Mazda, the Esses and Sunset. Also with the schedule, the gate fee nobody expects, and the Accu-Mental Forecast. Short version on the weather: 99 on Thursday, and no, you do not want that rain you're wishing for. It turns the place into peanut butter and adds thirty pounds to your car.Meanwhile Chris and Chrissy are hosting AND running the Colorado Lemons Rally, which launches from their driveway. There is a five-foot hole in the yard. There is caution tape. We are all a little worried.New here? Hit SUBSCRIBE, weekly, free, for the world of low-dollar racing and oddball car culture. We're chasing 1,000.FROM NCM (BOWLING GREEN, KY)Team Non Sequitur took the overall lead with under 15 minutes leftMom's Friendly Racing Company was 8th overall with 15 minutes to go, blew up, and finished the race on jack stands leaking into a drip pan. We made them push it to the awards ceremony and keep leaking in front of everybody.Heroic Fix: a dad drove 600 miles home to Alabama for a charge pipe. He left his son at the track.A team climbed a barbed-wire fence at 5:30 in the morning to retrieve another team's forgotten tiresIOE: drag racers who'd never turned left or right showed up with a fist-sized hole in the bell housing patched with wire mesh and JB Weld. They ran 230+ laps.97 degrees and humid, the most fueling issues anyone could remember at a Lemons raceALSO IN THIS EPISODEA 50th-annual figure-8 championship that ended in two felony counts.A Waymo that spent ten minutes afraid of a puddle, and another that drove through a farmers market.A Jeep that lost its axle brackets in Moab and got ratchet-strap fixed to drive 150 miles homeTim's clutch disintegrated into itchy fuzz, and the internet had thoughtsRemembering Lemons staffer Rob AndersEveryone Racers is a weekly amateur endurance racing podcast for people who build cheap race cars and drive them hard. Lemons, ChampCar, LuckyDog, SCCA, NASA. We don't discriminate.Email: [email protected] Instagram / Facebook: @everyoneracersRacing The Butt this weekend? Which corner gets you? 👇#24HoursOfLemons #Buttonwillow #EnduranceRacingFigure 8 Championship results in 2 Felony Charges (Adam Ismail @ The Drive) https://www.thedrive.com/news/figure-8-race-devolves-into-chaos-and-a-driver-felony-charge Waymo Scared of the Water (Lousi Casiano @ Fox Business) https://www.foxbusiness.com/technology/video-shows-waymo-driverless-vehicle-stuck-ai-loop-flooded-phoenix-street Waymo Drives through a Denver Farmers Market https://www.denver7.com/news/local-news/waymo-caught-on-video-driving-through-south-pearl-farmers-market-during-setup Triangulated Ratchet Straps get 4 wheeler 150 home (David Tracy @ The Autopian) https://www.theautopian.com/how-an-off-roader-replaced-his-jeeps-broken-suspension-with-ratchet-straps-then-drove-150-miles-home/ 2002 SS Camaro for $6k in Ephrata PA on Racing Junkhttps://www.racingjunk.com/24-hours-of-lemons-cars-and-equipment-for-sale/184797033/