Genius Race Car was Banned

In 2019, engineers noticed something strange in the sound of a rival race car.

They were listening to onboard audio, a normal way to study competitors. But this car didn’t sound normal.

Instead of a single clean motor sound, it had two distinct frequencies. Even stranger, one of them behaved in the opposite way it should have.

When the car slowed down, the pitch went up.
When it sped up, the pitch went down.

That shouldn’t happen with a normal motor.

So what was going on?

After digging deeper, they discovered the truth:
Two years earlier, a team had found a huge loophole in the rules and used it to build something incredibly clever… and incredibly fast.

Too fast, in fact.

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