Zero laps completed, and our brave duudes are already weeping into their steering wheels like characters in a terribly dubbed telenovela.
YOU WANT THE FRUIT? YOU CANNOT HANDLE THE JUICE!! Look at this tragedy unfolding on the Monterey tarmac! Thirty-six laps of pure suffering for everyone else, but for us? The race ended before the lights even thought about going out, and the pain is simply unbearable, caspita! We poured our very souls into the #01 Audi R10, only for the universe to laugh right in our faces. The telemetry is crying, the tyres are having an existential crisis, and my heart is shattering into a million little carbon-fibre pieces across the Corkscrew.
Fred Flintstone (Chief Strategist): Yabba-dabba-doo-not look at the timing screens, Fernando, because we are completely ruined and my club is stuck in the gearbox!
Wilma (Telemetry Specialist): Oh, Fred, stop shouting about your prehistoric clubs and help me fish Fernando's dignity out of the gravel pit!
We are fighting for the championship. We are fighting for the nearest exit and a very dark, quiet room where nobody can judge us.
Ps. Lost in the paddock: one slightly dented dignity, a half-eaten sandwich, and Fred Flintstone's missing bowling ball. If found, please return them to pit box zero immediately.


