Collectively Worse Motorsports

Bout that time again.

For the first time in over two years the Hellcan't gets on a new track at this weekend! This will be the largest track we've ran to date at over 4miles long! In the last 3 weeks the Hellcan't got a new (old) engine, new (old) transmission, and then went back to the old (original) transmission, because racing! (After realizing the diff was welded in the 3.94 transmission we had to revert back to the old 3.55. )

Pop into the livestream to see what sort of shenanigans we're up to this weekend!

Friday - Test Day, 9am-3pm
https://www.youtube.com/live/qrFduFV1aVo
Saturday - Race Day 1, 8am-4pm
https://youtube.com/live/HYYFDDqVD3E?feature=share
Sunday - Race Day 2, 8am-3pm
https://www.youtube.com/live/uKSjWRMRpX8

It's that time again! Collectively Worse Motorsports is back at it this weekend at Sebring International Raceway for the ChampCar Endurance Series New Years Double! This time it's Albert Pierceall, Tyler J Smith and Nick Fogleman driving. We may be one driver short but we're also short on skill! I mean, lack talent! no, that's not it either... We paid an entry fee and someone made the poor decision to let us participate in race! that's it!

If you want to check it out, we'll have live streams both days and the official champcar broadcast will also be on!

Saturday - https://youtube.com/live/UeF2Elcf6hU?feature=share

Sunday - https://youtube.com/live/qWak8BZWJN4?feature=share

Official Champcar Streams
Saturday - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42k46BzBLkc&ab_channel=ChampCarEnduranceSeries

Sunday - https://www.youtube.com/live/CacQ1FQyF64?si=a5BWd7OlQ9VViexo

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Test day in the books and after a couple minor tweaks from our esteemed fabricobler Matt Vespa we’re ready for race day!
The fun starts at 10am tomorrow! https://youtube.com/live/D9acs1n7N2U?feature=share
Richie Pottier
Tyler J Smith
Albert Pierceall

After a year of sitting around wondering what it would be like to race with a car that has a stunning 21.6 cubic inches more than the Hellcan’t…we’re about to find out! The founding members of CWM are reunited and heading back to Autobahn Country Club in Joliet for the The 24 Hours of Lemons “Doing time in Joliet”! After a full year off we’ve had time to make tons of big changes to make us go faster! We've swapped in a bigger engine, and… okay, not tons of changes..
If you want to hop in and catch some of the race live but have no idea how to tell who’s underneath the suits, we made a little reference sheet.

Tyler J Smith -Wearing: Silver helmet and black gloves. Driving Style: Smooth but aggressive. He wants to win, but also wants to….. Okay he just simply wants to win. Watch for Tyler to lay down some seriously fast lap times with his fancy heel-toe downshifting. Seriously Tyler, no one even knows what that is.
Matt Vespa-Wearing: White helmet, white suit. Driving Style: Too smooth for this group. Vespa’s on a mission to show proper race lines without shredding through tires like the other "idiots on this team". Apologies, Vespa has corrected and said he does not believe the rest of the team are “idiots”, rather they are “witless imbeciles”. What a caring team member!
Richie Pottier-Wearing: Blue suit, blue helmet. Driving Style: Unpredictable. Richie keeps talking about “smooth is fast and fast is slow”, saying just wait until he “drops the hammer” and yelling at us for eating ice cream. We’re pretty sure he has a small projector and he’s actually watching the movie Days of Thunder while he’s racing.
Albert Pierceall - Wearing: Black helmet, red gloves. Driving Style: Mix between Gran Turismo and Need for Speed (Hot pursuit). We can’t figure out if he’s trying to set time of the day, or if he thinks he’s running from the cops. The amount of time he’s spent driving in the grass and aggressively missing gears suggests the latter.
We’ll be out Fri for some test sessions, then Sat 930-6pm and Sun 9am-330pm
Fri-https://youtube.com/live/0FknAE9Cjok?feature=share

Sat- https://youtube.com/live/D9acs1n7N2U?feature=share

Sun-https://youtube.com/live/lDF0IZjkDRA?feature=share

Two months until CWM is back at it! We may have a slightly faster car this go round, but we still have four hack drivers to slow it back down!

Way too late race update from racing The 24 Hours of Lemons at Autobahn Country Club.

Drivers - Tyler Smith, Nick Fogleman, Albert Pierceall
Friday, Test day - In what is becoming a slightly annoying routine, we started off with issues. Something didn’t feel right in the front end on our test day Friday, so we pulled things apart and found our passenger spindle was not torqued properly and was allowing for some undesired dynamic camber adjusting around corners. While tightening this up, for some reason completely unknown to anyone, Tyler decided to kick one of the rear wheels and we noticed movement. Both sides of our rear control arms were loose and allowed both wheels to wobble. Tighten everything back up and away we go!

Saturday - The start of the race was great, Tyler got in and the car felt dialed from the go. Albert hopped in next and after a couple laps felt something change in the front right, again (he's so picky!). Back to the pits we go.. We repeated this a couple times and double checked all bolts as well as a quick camber and toe check/adjustment, and accepted that while something was a bit off it wasn’t a safety concern. We drove the rest of the day without incident and Nick was able to get his feet wet in wheel to wheel racing for the first time.

Sunday - Race start on day two was much more relaxed now that we had a bit more confidence in the car and were all getting used to driving on a crowded track. The goal was to keep it mildly conservative until the last couple stints, but that didn’t seem to last very long once our times started getting faster and maybe just a tiny bit of ego started creeping in... Three stints in a row all produced PR’s for each driver!.... Directly before the car decided it was done for the day (you can decide if that’s a coincidence..) after what we presume was an alternator failure.

Our first experience racing lemons had the typical high points and low points of previous races, but was overall another great experience with tons of learning opportunities to take from it. For the first time we weren’t one of the slowest cars! There was LOTS of passing due to the overall field being slower than champcar, as well as having nearly double the cars on the track. We nearly managed to get into the 46’s with our little underpowered Neon, but settled on a fast lap of 1:47.280. Everyone hit a PR, the fellow racers were fantastic and the on track racing was the most exciting we’ve had so far!
Special thanks to Nick Foglemanwho decided to get all of his gear and join last minute so that we had more than just two drivers, and put down some serious lap times for his first time ever wheel 2 wheel racing as well as first weekend driving the Hellcan’t.

Next up - Hellcan’t gets a heart transplant and some bigger shoes!

CWM is live for Lemons day 2! We may not be great at our day jobs, or as mechanics, or drivers… but our ability to break stuff is unmatched! Tune in to find out what we can disassemble while on track!

Lemons @ Autobahn Country Club - Day 2 9am-3:30pm

We're going racing again! Back to Autobahn Country Club in Joliet with a slightly different team arrangement. This time it will be Albert Pierceall and Tyler with Nick Fogleman helping to fill a seat. We'll be streaming all weekend, starting around 11am today for practice.

Check out the links If you get bored and want to watch subpar driving on a crowded track!

Friday link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7bFsCkiy1s
Saturday link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zV5HNLvUSr8
Sunday link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LpAgWakSyLI

Lemons @ Autobahn Country Club - Day 2 9am-3:30pm

Champ car weekend in Joliet at Autobahn Country Club.

Autobahn Country Club - Day 2
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCQATuC0pOXatwoyc5Y6KEA