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Originally Posted by 100_Percent_Juice
What's the story with the math problem on the hood?
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When you get black flagged for doing something stupid on track, instead of making you sit in a penalty box like regular race series do, they come up with creative ways to waste your time. Since I got busted for "two wheels off" (which was BS, I just drove through the cloud left by the car in front of me and they pulled my number instead, you can see it in the in-car video) they made us solve a crazy long unit conversion word problem involving beers, calories, and joules.
We also had to write "I will not pass under yellow" on the roof 100 times, follow the bus of shame for a lap around the paddock, and do a plain old 10 minute stint in the penalty box.
Other people had giant metal cutouts of farm animals welded to their roofs, or the team had to sit in a tent full of playa sand while it was shaken (it was the Burning Man simulation penalty for people w/ sand in their vaginas that complained about their other penalties I guess
), eat baby food for whining, do a slalom in reverse (in a car that doesn't have reverse gear), etc.
Overall the judges were pretty creative, and in general most the penalties could be handled in short time if your team was smart and on the ball, while dumb people spent hours working on getting back out on track.