Take 8 random people with no track experience and street cars that could be awesome track beasts, tune up their vehicles, and let them train for a race.

I don't feel that is the route he was trying to take at all. Regardless, it's a good book and people suck at grammar.

It is a joke about a poorly punctuated wildlife manual...if it said the panda "eats shoots and leaves," it would eat shoots and leaves. If it "eats, shoots and leaves," it would eat, shoot, and then leave. The former would be grammatically correct in said manual, the latter is the joke he was trying to make with poor…

Should be "eats, shoots and leaves." I see where you were going there, but Mrs. Truss would be extremely disappointed.