Round 3 of the Zenith Racing Series, the twelve hours at Virginia International Raceway: ninety degrees, most of the field's coolsuits dead by mid-afternoon, nine of twenty-eight cars gone before the finish. Stratus won it by sixty-two seconds over the car that set the fastest lap of the day, and left the two ZP2 championship contenders dead level at the top.
Twelve hours at the most brutal lap of the Zenith season so far. The tire variable nobody has had to manage yet. Heaven on Earth. What Round 3 actually asks.
Jon McClintock leads ZP2. The roundabout path into the NP01, what twelve hours actually asks, and the red #3 that keeps finishing.
What the long races are really about, somewhere past midnight, and the contract every driver signs without naming it.