The Hipstamatic shots...

 

Misc pics and video from the race...

Adrian races first.

Jesse's truck that goes boom.
(Cause Tigre and Bunny, they like the boom)

(Moderator apologizes for lack of boom in the video. 

 It does go boom, you'll have to take our word for it.)

There was a toilet float at the end of this tube before the race started. 

Fearing the float would fall off, it was replaced with a wee baby.

Don't piss this team off!  

(Moderator's note:  Go get 'em girls!)

A bit of harmless fun in the penalty area.

Judge Phil's nephew learns to spray paint as he assists Judge Phil with a penalty,

the perps get Fart spray painted on their car. 

Let's hope they've learned their lesson.

A spot of bother during Saturday's racing...

Alan decided to teach a daisy covered track barrier who was boss and received a couple of small dents in the process.

So the guys quickly went to work repairing it...

Then Patrick had a snack...

A short time and a few hammer swings later, good as new! 
Or as was said at the time, as good as it had been. 

The race continued and a new enterprise may have been born. 

Happy St. Patrick's Day

 St. Patrick wishes you a safe and sane day!

Suavé

A quick update...

Since the blog hasn't been updated in a while, here are a few highlights from the last year or so.

The Faster Farms team made appearances at the Alameda Car Show ...

the Concours d'Lemons in Monterey...

and at the Mopar Alley Car Show and Swap Meet.

The Faster Farms Team Rubs Elbows With Celebrity!

Steve Sanders! THE Steve Sanders!

Ian Ziering and his team of Mazdarachi's were pit neighbors at last year's race and he was cool enough to pose for a pic.

Sears Pointless

Faster Farms will be hitting the track at the 24 Hours of Lemons' upcoming Sears Pointless event March 25-27th at Infineon Raceway. They may crack the top 30, you wouldn't want to miss that would ya? Go and support your local chickens!

And we're back!

We've shamefully ignored this blog and for this we sincerely apologize! But the good news is we've hired a sexy new assistant to work on this for us

so updates should start coming fast and furious. Or at least occasionally, we'll see how it goes.

All hail the return of the Chickens!

Pimpin' The Tee Shirts.

A limited number of our fine, 100% cotton, team tee shirts are available on ebay.
Help us re-"coop" some of the money we foolishly threw at this crap can of a car. We probably won't be in either the Reno or Buttonwillow race, but we will be back at Thunderhill next year. Any money we make on this deal will be thrown back at the car.

We're Number One!

Autofiends' Jonny Lieberman thinks we're the bee's knees. Thanks Jonny, we like you too. Here's the link to the page that we appear on: Thunderhill LeMons: The 20 Coolest Cars of Arse-Freeze-Apalooza, but back up and read the whole article. All the cars are interesting.

More autofiends LeMons coverage: Here.

It's A Major Award.

Even though I shamefully rolled the car, and kept us from finishing the race, there was some consolation. Our Hillbilly Wing won us the prestigious Unsafe Banned Technology award!





Pictures coming as soon as I can find them.

Sunday.

Patrick starts the day with some very fast laps. The passenger is happy.


Pat continues to pilot the beast for about an hour before getting black flagged. It's our first offense for the weekend, so the judges go easy on us. Penalty: Driver change and back on the track.

Next up is Mike who also turns in some fast laps before also being black flagged. The passenger is no longer happy, but more importantly, the judges are mad as hell.



Penalty: The whole team is tied together and must walk the length of the entire paddock and back wrapped in caution tape to display our shame.



After the shaming, a driver change was required. My turn. Back on the track. I'm instructed by my teammates to take it easy. This is an easy assignment. I'm doing it. Taking it easy. Until I spin and flip the car (yes that's right) in the exit of turn one. The driver behind me noted the brand of muffler we were using as I presented the soft underbelly of the beast while in mid-air. I landed right side up and was groping around for the start button when Shawn called on the radio to ask if I was OK. More groping around, this time for the radio microphone. Yes I'm fine. Yes yes wait for the safety crew. I guess I'm done.



Thanks to the engineers at Chrysler and also to Mike Maier for building a stout roll cage.

I'm given a lift back to the pit and the car is towed in. There is minimal damage. Two flat tires and a scraping fan shroud. All is fixed in short order.








The judges say we can't go back out. We are banned for the rest of the season (three days). Their word is final. More shame. Sorry, team.

The passenger is sad.



On the bright side, I am relatively undamaged and so is the car. Mike drove the car 150 miles home last night without incident.

All in all, not a bad weekend.

More later.

For coverage of the event go to Jalopnik.

Saturday.

Saturday was great, Thunderhill Raceway is a beautiful track with some tricky turns. The organizer makes sure that the track is suitable for both seasoned drivers and the numerous beginners. Chicanes are added too keep the top speeds down to about 70-80 MPH.

All of the team took a turn at the wheel. We all stayed out about an hour.


Patrick First.


Then Mike.


My Turn.


Adrian.


Al.


Last, But Most Fastest, Shawn.



Made it look effortless.

Inspection.

The chickens were a little nervous.

To be honest, so were we.

Sigh of relief.

Everything worked out well.

Penalty laps = zero! Hurrah.

Now it's time to practice. More later.