Race To The Bottom

YOU CAN RUN FROM FAIL, BUT YOU CAN’T HIDE.

- Sam Smith

THE NO-QUESTION, hands-down worst part about breaking a race car is the bit where you sit there, strapped into the thing, waiting to be towed back to your trailer.

You think about a lot of things, stuck there on the side of a racetrack. 

Mostly, you think about how you are an idiot. 

Conventional wisdom holds that sometimes, machines just break. This truth lives in an entirely separate reality from the bubble around your average racetrack, where everyone knows that broken race cars are always the driver’s fault. It doesn’t matter if the guy behind the wheel actually did anything wrong; everyone in the paddock will see that busted or crashed-up heap and choose the simplest answer: 

You dorked it.