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Portland OR--Sporting carbon-fiber eyewear, identity-hiding Nomex balaclavas, and $1600 driving suits, a huge crowd of lime-green-GT3-owning protesters has occupied Portland International Raceway in the runup to 24 Hours of LeMons' mid-February crapcan race there.

Identifying themselves as "The 1% Who Aren't Embarrassed to be Seen in Lime-Green GT3s," the occupiers vow to remain in the PIR paddock until LeMons stops letting "...broke talentless amateurs" compete in its series. Their manifesto demands racing remain limited to  "...trained professionals and exceedingly rich talentless amateurs."

LeMons' website, in turn, calls the GT3 owners "...a tool used by the white-male SCCA/NASA/ALMS patriarchy to suppress fireproof pimp costumes and post-checkered-flag beer drinking." The $500-car racers' promised counter-demonstration fizzled when their rusty MGs, salvage-title Kias, and 40-year-old Datsuns crapped out en route to the track.

To register your own protest at PIR: 

• Race Date: 18-19 Feb '12
• Track: Portland International Raceway 
• Event: LeMons All Weathers/No Whiners GP   
• Enter By: Saturday, 17 Dec (click here for entry form)