probably like longer gears yeah i would guess it's gearing um also the most on straight back then nowadays there's two chicanes on it but back then it was just a wide open long ass straight i think it's like two miles long or something it's really long three miles even um someone out there is like it's it's NUMBER_TOKEN miles you idiot um and i apologize but yeah it's super long uh so yeah i would guess it's gearing because i mean that charger probably only had a four speed in it um and they were geared to go NUMBER_TOKEN plus you know at the ovals at talladega so makes sense NUMBER_TOKEN producer gavin in with NUMBER_TOKEN oh that was close very close but he wasn't even right so who's really right but turning the car wasn't the only hurdle team mcgriff faced at home in the good old us of a the mighty mopar ran on NUMBER_TOKEN octane gas but in france they were told the best they could get was NUMBER_TOKEN octane but through miscommunication or sabotage or bad conversion rates or what have you it turns out french NUMBER_TOKEN is really american NUMBER_TOKEN octane the low octane gas devastated the hemi it was pre-igniting which is when the combustion happens in the cylinder before the spark plug fires which is pretty bad for a motor yeah yeah really bad for performance it puts too much pressure inside the cylinder and then the pistons are forced to compress already heated expanding gases not good that's what freddie mercury wrote that song about is talking about a hemi so we talked about earlier like the preparations we mentioned that they lowered the compression in the motor um because this gas that's why you know if you have too high compression if you know when you have a super high compression motor you need high octane gas and that's why turbocharged engines like today that's why you need that premium like NUMBER_TOKEN octane gas yeah for anyone who doesn't know the lower the octane number the easier it explodes so this race engine needed very high octane gas anything that you want to explode yeah you might be like oh i'll go with premium but joe weber told you to get lower octane gas if you want to explode anything wink wink nation is a terrorist group i don't know oh my god back at le mans the low octane gas did pretty much what you think it would do to the engine and sent a piston through the hood the mcgriffs didn't pack too many spare motors so they lowered the compression of the car as low as they could and said a prayer to the holy trinity ford gm and chrysler that they would keep the piston inside the motor but they didn't mcgriff managed to qualify and landed NUMBER_TOKENth out of NUMBER_TOKEN spots on the starting line for a brand new entry at le mans it wasn't that impressive but at least they weren't last that honor went to don leves torino which had such a terrible showing during practice that the last place spot was pretty much a pity gift on race day the totally expected happened don leves ford
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