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I stayed up watching on my laptop last night until about 11:15 pm my time...on a school night even. This morning my wife asked me why I was so fascinated watching them...

I said "You know, they've got the best of the best in the industry there working on this thing...and to watch them go through the same types of first time fire up frustrations that any of us that have ever built a car from scratch before know first hand...it was captivating..."

And it wasn't like watching a reality or horror show or anything, I truly felt for them because I have been there done that too. I was as happy as anyone for them when Smitty flicked the key and it started cranking like a normal engine. Watching them go through the thought processes of chasing down the problem...when Smitty jumped up and ran across the shop to grab a spark plug socket and ratchet and began pulling the plugs...how many of us have gone through the same types of problem solving on a new build only without a TV camera in our face and a huge countdown clock on the wall?

I wanted to see them make the 48 hour clock but at the same time I liked watching that part of the build almost as much as the rest of it. Nobody got snappy, nobody pushed the cameras away, they all just dug in or rooted on those digging in until the job got done. That was pretty effing cool...