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 Posted: Sep 26, 2018 08:19AM
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Here's the video of the race. The IOE Mention comes in at about 10min.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKfWcC8NXOU


Warning: There is profanity aplenty in this video so keep the volume under control

 Posted: Aug 6, 2018 12:13PM
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MG1100 and Austin 1800 doing battle!

Sean Windrum

1996 MGF VVC
1970 1275 GT Racer
66 Austin Countryman
63 997 Cooper (Under Construction)
63 MG 1100

 

 Posted: Aug 6, 2018 12:10PM
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Thanks for tooting our horn for us Spank! It has been a long time coming, we have been at this for 8 years now. We have consistantly brought British cars with one small daliance (we brought a Corvette one year, and believe me, it was way worse than our British stuff...)
We started with the Mini, then brought a Landcrab, then the Wolseley Hornet, then an MG1100. We either shot ourselves in the feet by blowing up, or there were some amazing machines that we litereally stood no chance at beating for this prize... SAAB 96, Hudson Hornet, Studebaker Avanti, MG Metro... The MG 1100 was our dark horse, last year we ran fairly well, but had some mechanical gremlins, this year, in the shadow of the Landcrab, contesting the much faster B class, the little MG1100 just ran, and ran and ran...We clocked up 301 laps, or just over 1200km during the race, which was good enough for 21st place over all and the coveted Index of Effluency!

Sean Windrum

1996 MGF VVC
1970 1275 GT Racer
66 Austin Countryman
63 997 Cooper (Under Construction)
63 MG 1100

 

 Posted: Aug 6, 2018 07:41AM
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 Posted: Jul 31, 2018 08:48PM
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 Posted: Jul 31, 2018 12:32PM
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Spank: thanks for the link. Makes me wish I was 40 years younger.

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"Hang on a minute lads....I've got a great idea."

 Posted: Jul 31, 2018 07:58AM
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Sorry for the lack of explanation:

IOE stands for Index of Effluency and is the top award given out each race in the 24 Hours of Lemons series. It's a parody of sorts of the LeMans Index of Efficiency award.

It essentially is the award given to the team who most exemplifies the spirit of the event and brings a car that is immensely ill-suited to modern endurance racing yet somehow defies all expectations and outperforms much of the field.  There is a sliding scale of crappiness to performance ratio and it really is sorta just pulled out the organizers' collective arse shortly before the awards ceremony. But an MG1100 coming in 21st OVERALL in a 14.5 hour race stretched over 2-days is brilliantly impressive!

It comes with the most prize money and a free entry for a future race as if to dare, "Betcha can't do it AGAIN!"

https://24hoursoflemons.com/wtf/

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What's an I.O.E? 

 Posted: Jul 30, 2018 07:46AM
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Congratulations to team Silversleeves (and board members swindrum and aaron anderson) on your long overdue I.O.E. with your MG1100 this past weekend!

It's about darned time!