Property Llama Racing
V-TEC HALEN
#812 · CLASS A
The B.F.E. GP 2026 · 277 LAPS
Race Story Where We Belong Our Drivers How To Go Faster Car & Reliability
2:24.0
Best Lap
+15s to A leader
277
Laps · P17 in A
finished, ran clean
B+
Consistency
0.2s per lap · vs clean-air
2:36.7
Clean-Air Pace
our true speed
~142m
Time On Table
if we'd held pace
The Race's Heartbeat
Overall Position Over Time
Live overall position every lap — where we ran, where we got lapped, the overnight gap. Overall position, not class position.
Our position Yellow Overnight stop ↑ higher = better track position
Every Lap
Chronological Lap Chart
All 277 laps, colored by driver/stint · pit & yellow marked · ambient-temp band behind (Sat hot → Sun cool).
Jeff Richard Ryan Taylor Scott temp: hot → cool
The Weekend In Words

Property Llama Racing brought V-TEC Halen to its first 24 Hours of Lemons and did the hard thing well: 277 laps, only 9 yellow-affected, no major mechanical DNF despite heat, altitude, and a single tire set all weekend.

Saturday baked at 65–79°F; Sunday opened cool at 55°F. The car was freshened overnight and the Day-2 pace shows it.

"A genuinely good endurance run in our first rodeo — the result looks rough in Class A, but the operation was sound."

Jump To
Where We Belong →
The class-fit verdict
How To Go Faster →
142 min in the pits & to pace, ranked
The Verdict · 4-lens call

On pace, we were a slow car in a fast class — not a B car robbed of glory.

Our best lap (2:24.0) ranks 17th of 28 in Class A, ~10s off the A median — but it would sit near the back of B (~31/36) and looks mid-pack in C (~10/18). The honest fair-classing case is about car spec & value, not lap time. Where the story turns in our favor: attrition — our 277-lap survival would have finished far better in B/C than pace alone suggests.

Outright pace · argues C/low-B Race pace · compute Attrition · favorable Competitiveness gap · +10s/lap
Class Placement
Where our pace lands in each class
Each class's lap-time distribution; the dashed marker is our best lap. Left = faster.
CLASS A
CLASS B
CLASS C
US · 2:24.0
Counterfactual Finish
If our 277 laps were entered elsewhere
Two lenses — they disagree, and the disagreement is the insight.
Pace lens
Class AP24
Class BP31 / 36
Class CP10 / 18
Attrition lens
Class AP17
Class BP21 / 36
Class CP5 / 18
Reading This View
How to interpret the placement data
Pace lens
Where our best lap ranks in each class's field
Attrition lens
Where our 277-lap finish places against each class's actual finishers
The gap
~10s/lap to the A median — car spec & value question, not just driving
The Five · temperature-normalized
Jeff
Stints 1·6·11
Best 2:24.9
Clean-air 2:31.1
Race pace 2:32.4
Consistency σ 6.4s
STRENGTH Outright one-lap speed
GROWTH Holds pace under traffic
Richard
Stints 2·7·12
Best 2:24.0
Clean-air 2:37.7
Race pace 2:38.0
Consistency σ 7.2s
STRENGTH Steadiest over long stints
GROWTH Hydration on long Day-2 runs
Ryan
Stints 3·8·13
Best 2:30.7
Clean-air 2:40.7
Race pace 2:40.7
Consistency σ 8.8s
STRENGTH Strong early-stint pace
GROWTH Settling the final laps of a stint
Taylor
Stints 4·9·14
Best 2:32.5
Clean-air 2:38.0
Race pace 2:38.1
Consistency σ 7.5s
STRENGTH Most improved Day1→Day2
GROWTH Outright qualifying pace
Scott
Stints 5·10·15
Best 2:30.6
Clean-air 2:37.7
Race pace 2:37.7
Consistency σ 4.9s
STRENGTH Calm in traffic / night
GROWTH First-lap-out warm-up
Pace × Consistency
Who's fast, who's steady
X = clean-air pace (faster →) · Y = consistency (steadier ↑). Temp-adjusted.
faster →
↑ steadier
STEADY & BUILDING
FAST & STEADY
DEVELOPING
FAST · BUILDING CONSISTENCY
Jeff
Richard
Ryan
Taylor
Scott
Stint Ribbon
Who drove when
Each driver's stints across the race · color = driver · width = laps.
Jeff
Richard
Ryan
Taylor
Scott
L1 · SatovernightL277 · Sun
Time On The Table
Where the ~142 minutes went — ranked
Total gap to a realistic target, decomposed. Consistency is the largest, cheapest lever.
Driver-change stops
109:57
Tire rotation stop
18:31
Other stops
7:06
Penalties
5:04
Consistency tax
0:53
Total time lost141:31
Tire Arc
Pace vs laps-on-tire (temp-corrected)
One tire set all race. The ~L225 rotation is an explicit inflection.
Lap 225
slower ↑ · laps on tire →
Pit / Stop
Our actual stop time by type
Slow driver changes (5-pt harness, hydration swap) are a named line item.
Driver-change stops TOTAL TIME IN PIT — CHANGES
109:57
Tire rotation stop TOTAL TIME — ROTATION
18:31
Other stops NON-CHANGE STOPS
7:06
Penalties TIME LOST TO PENALTIES
5:04
⚠ NOTE

⚠ No comparative pit-duration data is available — we cannot benchmark our stops against other teams. Figures shown are our actual time in pit lane by stop type.

Do This First
Opinionated next-race checklist
Ranked by time recovered per dollar/effort. Free & coachable at the top.
1
Consistency drills — lock each driver to clean-air ± 1.5sFree. Coaching + delta dash. Largest single pile of recoverable time.
~15 min
2
Enduro 5-point quick-release harness + in-car hydration~$320. Speeds driver changes and supports long Day-2 stints.
~8 min
3
Rotate tires at the overnight stop, not L225Free. Banks the back-half degradation we ate.
~2 min
4
Late-stint pacing plan — hold the back thirdFree. Bank early pace, manage the final laps of each stint so they don't drift.
~2 min
⚠ INFERENCE

No sector or GPS data was recorded (sectionTimes is empty). Corner-level and true braking-zone analysis isn't possible — the "mechanical signature" below is inferred from full-lap consistency degradation and the speed field, not measured directly. Treat it as a strong hypothesis, not proof.

Mechanical Signature
Day-2 lap-time scatter widening
Lap-to-lap variability (proxy for braking/suspension behaviour) holds tight, then opens up mid-Day-2.
L188 · variability opens
lap-time spread →
race progress →
Conditions Context
65–79°F
Saturday ambient

Baking heat all of Day 1 — thermal load on engine, brakes, and drivers.

55–72°F
Sunday ambient

Cool start Day 2 — pace gains here are weather, not just car; temp-normalized elsewhere.

~5,200 ft
Track altitude

Thinner air = less power and reduced cooling margin; overheating risk through the heat.

Overnight Bounce-Back
Day 2 came out faster
Median clean-air pace, Day 1 close vs Day 2 open (temp-adjusted).
Day 1 close
2:42.7
→
Day 2 open
2:29.6

+13.0s/lap, beyond the weather adjustment.

⚠ CONFOUNDED

Can't be pinned on the car alone — rested drivers, cooler track, and fresh rubber all land Day-2 morning too. We adjust for ambient temp; we can't cleanly separate "fresh car" from "fresh crew." Call it an overnight bounce-back, not proof the freshen did it.

Tire-Condition Story
One set, all weekend
Single tire set ran the full 277 laps — degradation is a whole-race arc, not per-stint.
Pace held remarkably flat through Day 1 heat — good thermal management.
~L225 rotation gave a small reset but came late (see How To Go Faster).
No punctures, no flat-spots logged — clean tire weekend overall.