The Rolex 24 isn’t immune to roadkill (Photo)
Opossums are active at night. A significant portion of the Rolex 24 sports car race is run when the sun is down. After reading the headline and the previous two sentences, you know where we’re going with this post.
Andy Lally tweeted Sunday morning that he reported hitting debris around 5 a.m. The team never found what Lally hit until the team made the following discovery a few hours later. Yes, the picture is of a dead animal, so if you don’t want to look, you’re warned to stop scrolling now.
In an interview with Fox Sports 1, Lally noted that his team’s Porsche has a rear engine and that the opossum went through the front of the car and made it through to the trunk. He hit it after the car in front him swerved and clipped it.
The opossum wasn’t the sole ruinition of the Magnus Racing No. 44’s race, however. The team had gearbox issues and was running a bunch of laps down when Lally had his wildlife encounter.
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