The 24 Hours of LeMons has released its calendar for 2015, which will be the series’ eighth full season (Depending on how you quantify a “season” of LeMons). This is, in some ways, probably surreal for a series that was really just going to be a one-off event in 2006 for kicks, but LeMons has grown into an amateur racing sensation with more than a thousand entries every year and several thousand drivers driving crapcans every year. The schedule looks very similar to last year’s, albeit with a couple of changes.
Make the jump for the full schedule and a tiny bit of analysis.


February 7-8: Barber Motorsports Park (Birmingham, AL)
February 28-March 1: Eagles Canyon Raceway (Decatur, TX)
March 21-22: Sonoma Raceway (Sonoma, CA)
April 25-26: Gingerman Raceway (South Haven, MI)
May 2-3: Carolina Motorsports Park (Kershaw, SC)
May 9-10: New Jersey Motorsports Park – Thunderbolt (Millville, NJ)
June 13-14: High Plains Raceway (Deer Trail, CO)
June 20-21: Buttonwillow Raceway Park (Buttonwillow, CA)
July 11-12: The Ridge Motorsports Park (Shelton, WA)
July 25-26: Autobahn Country Club (Joliet, IL)
August 8-9: Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park (Thompson, CT)
September 12-13: Thunderhill Raceway Park (Willows, CA)
September 19-20: Carolina Motorsports Park (Kershaw, SC)
October 3-4: Miller Motorsports Park (Tooele, UT)
October 10-11: Autobahn Country Club (Joliet, IL)
October 24-25: New Hampshire Motor Speedway (Loudon, NH)
November 14-15: MSR Houston (Angleton, TX)
December 5-6: Sonoma Raceway (Sonoma, CA)
As with last year, the schedulers have done their best to space the races out within the region and to avoid having more than two consecutive weekends. In fact, the schedule is about 80 percent identical to this year’s because if it ain’t broke, LeMons ain’t gonna fix it.
The big news here is the July race at Autobahn will be a 24-hour event, the first since 2013 at MSR Houston. This doesn’t come as a huge surprise after the 2014 Autobahn race was a one-day, 14-hour race into the dark. There’s no indication yet of which track configuration will be used, but I wouldn’t be surprised to see a similar setup to this year’s race where the South Course is used until the North Course is available, at which time the Full Course will be used. This year’s final Midwest race at Gingerman is also being changed in 2015 to a second Autobahn date, which will likely be a more standard race time (about 14-1/2 hours over two day).
The series will also run its first race at the newly renovated Thompson Speedway in Connecticut. This date replaces the second NJMP race in 2014 at the same weekend. That spreads the Northeast races out nicely both geographically and calendar-wise.
Unsurprisingly, the series has dropped Sebring International Raceway from the schedule, having drawn only a couple dozen cars in the initial LeMons race this year. Two small schedule changes make up all of the schedule differences: The race at Miller Motorsports Park moves from May to early October and the High Plains Raceway race moves from September back to June, when it has historically been held.
Teams are already scheming to make plans and I’d expect the series’ only 24-hour race to draw well, running in the middle of the country.
[All photos copyright 2014 Hooniverse/Eric Rood]