It’s exactly like the 24 Hours of LeMans, excepts the race is only three hours long, the cars must cost $300 and the track is a dirt field somewhere in Alberta. This is the Three Hours of LeMelons, Alberta’s annual tribute to the resilience of vehicles that cost less than an iPhone. Little is known about the LeMelons race. The vehicles are raced “pure stock” — no safety equipment aside from a crash helmet and no performance modifications. Unlike the 24 Hours of LeMans, though, the award was not based on distance travelled, but on “arbitrary” metrics.

Source: National Post April 21, 2017 19:30 UTC