SEPTEMBER 2019 27
That event ended up being
the ChampCar race at Daytona
International Speedway, and the team
couldn’t have kept me away with a
fully armed Humvee and a belt-fed
.50 cal! ChampCar used to be called
ChumpCar and was organized by
ex-LeMons racers who had a slightly
different idea about how to run a race.
There are some subtle differences
between the two series, but the thing
that ties them together is the attitude:
“Let’s just have fun racing cars without
spending a ton of money.” Like
LeMons, there is a price limit on the
cars, ostensibly to keep it affordable,
and the judges in tech will call BS on
an obvious cheater of a car and punish
it by docking the team laps. Our Fox
Mustang cannot hide its ineligibility,
even to a blind tech inspector, but as
was the case in Atlanta, we weren’t
there to win—just to have fun and turn
laps for charity.
Innovation Performance Technolo-
gies (innovationperformance.tech)
QAll cars have to go through tech to make sure they meet the rules and have all of the required
safety equipment. They weighed the cars, and our Fox-body came in at 2,900 pounds.