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FACES IN THE CROWD ENGINEERED TO


SURVIVE... WE HOPE


“24 Hours of LeMons” is a series of one-day, around-the-clock endurance races for cars that cost less than $500. (The name plays off France’s famed Le Mans endurance road races.) Billed as “breeding grounds for morons,” the races attract all sorts of characters, including a group of engineers from the metalcasting industry. Priority Fail was a team of four Univ. of Wisconsin-Platteville engineering graduates and their not-so-trusty 1997 Volkswagen Golf, designed to look like an old postal deliv- ery vehicle, complete with mailbags affixed to the roof. Henry Frear, Dan Kaul, Patrick Kluesner, and Nathan Schlawin rotated in their roles as drivers and pit crew. At the Doin’ Time in Joliet, Illinois race, which was a one-day, 14-hour race, the team temporarily climbed to 11th place in the 96-car field before a series of me- chanical complications left the vehicle spending too much time on the sidelines. Sponsored by Applied Process (Livonia, Michigan), Magma (Schaumburg, Illinois) and Advantage Research Inc. (Germantown, Wisconsin) Priority Fail finished in 64th place completing 188 laps, but—perhaps most importantly—the car was still running when it cruised past the checkered flag.


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