Gordon Tronson is our Team Captain. Jeff Wenger shows up as captain on the Lemons website only because he does the administrative duties. Jaysen Boujikian and Gordon Tronson constructed our vehicle, a 1995 Dodge Stealth set up as a Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk "Stealth Fighter".
This black project is an ultra-secret stealth program. We are the BAD-ASS Dark Ops Stealth Fighter F-117A Down Under Team, heavily armed Bandits piloting our Lockheed F-117 Nighthawk stealth ground attack aircraft right out of he famed Skunk Works. Our new bizarre appearance is due to flat panels, called facets, which are arranged so as to scatter over 99% of the static directed our way. Our Wobbly-Goblin features two F404 turbofan engines visible from the rear. Our F-117 Frisbee is limited to subsonic speeds, but is heavily laden with highly sophisticated navigation and bristling with all manner of new state-of-the-art attack systems.
Base Commander Colonel "Kiwi" Tronson would like all to know that his boys here at Nellis have been working very hard to prepare our latest hi-tech allied airforce craft codenamed the "911 Avenger" into ready combat service. We are now ready to kick some ass. We are dedicated to all our allied forces, all the servicemen and women serving overseas that have sacrificed so much so that we might enjoy freedom. Through strength comes peace. We are dedicated to world peace.
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The Down Under Team competed in the 24 Hours of LeMons
Race in Reno at the Reno-Fernley Raceway.
This challenging 2 mile racetrack has very steep elevation changes and plenty of other excitement.
Competing in Reno were Gordon Tronson, Jaysen Boujikian, Chris Tromba, and Jeff Wenger.
Conceived in 2006 in mock homage to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France,
the LeMons is likewise a marathon of man and machine. But unlike the gentlemanly Gallic race,
LeMons is a 24-hour brawl and, more defining, nice cars are not welcome. The rules say that teams
can spend no more than $500 on their vehicles before adding safety gear.
Chris Willett of the competing
Sin City Lemons Team
put together a team driving a white Volkswagen Jetta #959 this year.
The Las Vegas teams were pitted side-by-side and Chris Willet's team were very generous with their tools, air and food!
Gordon Tronson, Jeff Wenger, Jaysen Boujikian, and Chris Tromba of the
Down Under Team
drove a black 1995 Dodge Stealth #88. For more information about this crazy race see
www.24hoursoflemons.com.
We were consistently running neck-to-neck with the Sin City Team in 43rd place until we lost 3rd, then 4th, then 5th, and then
all of our gears. We did manage to do 3 laps in 2nd gear before it all went and we coasted down the hill into the pits.
We still managed to finish in 64th place completing 89 laps at an average speed including pits of 49.985 mph.
Sin City Lemons finished in 45th place. See the results.
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Race car drivers were Team Captain Gordon Tronson, Chris Reed, Andrew Triggs, Cortney Smith, and Jaysen Boujikian.
Jeff Wenger did not make the race. Chris Willet is the other driver pictured, Team Captain of the Las Vegas Lemons Team.
As a number of the race drivers are Kiwis from New Zealand,
the race car hood painting is of the New Zealand flag overlayed with a New Zealand tribal good luck charm.
The Down Under Automotive Racing Team in Car # 89, a 1995 Dodge Stealth, came in 50th Place out of a Field of 100 completing 347 Laps
for a total time of 10:45:13.912. The fastest lap time was 52.932. Down Under Racing completed the endurance race with a respectible finish!
For official results see www.24hoursoflemons.com.
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