• evidences@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    Much longer than a decade, I knew some guys that did a lemons race in Illinois about 20 years ago. Wikipedia says they started up in 2006 but I could have sworn I read about those guys before then.

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      1 day ago

      I didn’t want to really include the early years since it didn’t get big in the car scene until like 2010ish. Pre-2006 I wanna say it was called something else, but yea it’s been around in some form for a good long time.

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        1 day ago

        I’ve only known it as 24 hours of lemons but I don’t know if they carried that name on all the races. I know the one my friends did back in the day was named the “Rod Blagojevich Never Say Die 500”. I know for a fact is a Lemons race though because Jay Lamm was there and gave them an award for something.