The key to winning is figuring out how to make winning things safety related and thus not subject to the price cap. New tires won’t blow out unlike the old worn out tire - safety so now you can spend a lot of money on the best racing tires. Good brakes are important so I replaced the warped rotars with competition ultralight racing brakes (if you want to check I can find worn out brakes at a junkyard and you won’t the actual brakes were fine). Those are easy/obvious examples, winning teams are really good at finding such things.
My issue with 24h of Lemons is that everyone seems to just ignore the $500 cap and just take the penalties at the end, so it all evens out. Anyone who does try to limit themselves to $500 would be competing against people who didn’t, and might lose even if they didn’t take any penalties.
Those cars definitely have more than $500 in safety parts inside.
Also the cyber truck could soon qualify as a under $500.
Safety equipment is excluded from the cost cap
The key to winning is figuring out how to make winning things safety related and thus not subject to the price cap. New tires won’t blow out unlike the old worn out tire - safety so now you can spend a lot of money on the best racing tires. Good brakes are important so I replaced the warped rotars with competition ultralight racing brakes (if you want to check I can find worn out brakes at a junkyard and you won’t the actual brakes were fine). Those are easy/obvious examples, winning teams are really good at finding such things.
My issue with 24h of Lemons is that everyone seems to just ignore the $500 cap and just take the penalties at the end, so it all evens out. Anyone who does try to limit themselves to $500 would be competing against people who didn’t, and might lose even if they didn’t take any penalties.
That is another way to cheap, if the cost of getting caught is less than the gains from winning you just get caught.
And get stuck at the start line?