Feb 17, 2024
Okay, time for the new puzzler. This is an automotive puzzler. Here we go.
A long time ago, there was a Grand Prix race car driver. Let's call him Neal. And he had been facing the same nightmare, race after race.
His crew would work night and day fine tuning his sleek black GT race car, but no amount of mechanical skill or driving courage could make the nightmare go away. In every race, he would find himself inches behind his arch nemesis, a race car driver named Crusty, of course.
Crusty would always beat him, in every race. He was unable to slip by him on the track.
Then one day during a race, he was surprised to find he was neck and neck with his rival. Neal was so happy to see he was pulling ahead finally. Then, Crusty was in his rear view mirror. He had pulled ahead.
At that moment, when he was finally beating his rival, some instinct told him to look down. So he looks down and says, "Oh, no!"
He realized there is an immediate need for a pit stop.
What did he see?
Good luck.
So, what did he see when he looked down? This guy racing the car in our puzzler?
And the answer is, he looked down and saw the gauges, and that he had no oil pressure.
The fact that he had lost all his oil somehow accounted for the sudden burst of power.
The engine didn't have to push that oil by making the pump work. The pump was still working, but it was not pumping oil, and for those few seconds, that he sped by Crusty, he had more power because he had lost his oil and didn't have to expend any of the engine's energy pumping the oil around. Be he still had enough to keep the bearings from melting and the pistons from welding themselves to the cylinder wall. But he realized that it was only a matter of seconds before destruction set in and that's why he pulled in for a pit stop.
