At first I thought you were being petty, but damn if that fence isn’t actually made out of dildos. Excelsior, good sir.

Had to scroll back and take another look. Not sure I’m glad I did.

Those neighbors are awfully righteous for people whose fences are made out of dildos.

... and then a view from where the oil pan normally resides, which resembled a mass of guacamole stalagmites

I was once a valet at a country club. You’re very kind to assume we didn’t exceed 5mph.

I get what you’re asking (unlike most who replied, I guess) and I think the answer is that the rules are there to stop teams from trying to gain an advantage by changing the aerodynamics. Whether that hole offered any advantage (other than access to the starter) is irrelevant because allowing them to get away with the…

If anything it would’ve probably created a small amount of drag. Unfortunately it is a homologation vehicle and it was altered as stupid as that sounds. Rules are rules and they are to be enforced across the board no matter how dumb they may seem.

Each stop they gained seconds or minutes by being able to access the starter.

If it allows you to “service” the car with body work on, sure there is. Le Mans is funny like that. There’s a real emphasis on reliability. There are plenty of other races that will let you tow your car back to the pits, work on it, and go back out. Not Le Mans. Reliability and maintenance is a part of the race.

Unbelievably so. The hole allowed them to hit the started without removing the bodywork. Once the engine was running after being hit, putting the bodywork back on would be a penalty, as all work on the car must be done while the engine is off.

I’m going to say yes, as it’s the quickest route to banging on the starter with a hammer and getting it to work again without removing all of the rear body panels.

Seeing as they had already been issued penalties twice for for working on the car while it was running (putting it back together after banging the starter), they were trying to do an end-run around the safety regs to give themselves an unfair advantage. They then committed another infraction by illegally modifying an…

Time... Time is everything in Le Mans. Is quite simple, they needed to hammer the car to get it going.. taking the cover off would take that process a total of, lets suppouse, 15 seconds. By not removing the cover, they reduced that time to 3-4 seconds, that makes a huge difference on the track.

Probably not but modifying a homologated part is a no-no.

so I towed it to my mother in law’s house where it sat for 6 months before I scrapped it for $125.

And then the British electricians hooked up the wiring harness without a multimeter.

My new sports car, the Rosinator 1, will feature an innovative new quadruple-manual transmission, with each wheel driven by its own miniature manual transmission built right into the wheel. Yes, that means four shifters, and four clutch pedals. It’ll also be powered by a naturally-aspirated, air-cooled, rear-mounted…

Yep, when I was buying my 2017 RR (Jaguar Land Rover dealer) the guy tossed me the keys, literally, and explained some of the new features, he set me off on a “Go wherever, for however long you’d like” trip with a half tank of fuel. After that we talked about old Land Rovers, and showed me some F-Type Rs they had in…

Man, that sounds horrible. Which dealership was it?

I flew from home near Chicago to Richmond, VA on a 1-way ticket to buy a 99 Infiniti G20t 5-speed. Color, options, price, all top-notch. Minor flaws were disclosed and understood. Everything checked out once I got there... except the engine with a very minor rod knock. Doh.