Chuck Bryant

There's public road, like fully public road races.

I know.

And I find those fascinating too.

Yeah.

Look, man.

Weirdly defensive about this.

So for Le Mans in particular, it's a 24-hour endurance race, like you said, like really famous car makers, especially by this time in the 50s, like the top car makers would enter a car, hire an elite driver and say, get to it.

And the distances that they're covering in this 24 hours on this eight and a half mile track are akin to driving in 24 hours from New York to L.A.

or Berlin to Athens, which I'm not even sure you can do because Athens is in Greece, which is an island.

But you get the gist.

Or from Perth to Sydney.

So no matter where you are in the world, you now realize that this is a really long amount of miles or kilometers that they're driving on this D-shaped track in 24 hours.

Yeah, for sure.

And they were, even back then, driving really fast.

I think the all-time track record speed, like the tip-top on a straightaway would be 253 miles an hour, which was 1988.

But even in the 1950s...

you know, this crash occurred, I saw 120 up to 150 miles an hour.

So they were driving these cars really, really fast, even back then.

And I don't know, I almost feel like we should take an early break there.

I need to.