After their original car was destroyed during Petit Le Mans practice, the Patrón Highcroft ALMS team was forced to rebuild their Acura LMP1 racer overnight. Below, the time-lapse build video, Scott Sharp's Porsche-tagging crash causing the all-nighter and the time-line.


So to put it in simple numbers, the team put together a 4,000-part race car in 21 hours and 45 minutes. Simply brilliant. Here's a few slugs from Patrón Highcroft Racing:

Patrón Highcroft Racing's won their "race" to make the grid and maintain the team's championship assault after taking a bare tub into a complete racecar in less than 24 hours today. After a horrifying crash for Scott Sharp on Thursday, the tub of the team's Acura ARX-02a was badly damaged and Honda Performance Development flew out a replacement overnight from its headquarters in California. Beginning the build at 8:00am on Friday morning preparing parts, the Patrón Highcroft squad kicked off when the tub arrived at 9:20am and worked throughout the night to build up a new machine for today's 12th running of the annual Petit Le Mans endurance classic. The car was ready to roll at 5:45am the following morning - in time for the team to take part in the morning warm-up. Heavy rain overnight actually pushed the warm-up back - allowing the team to take a breath before beginning race day.


The Build:



The Crash:



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THE BUILD RECAP / TIME-LINE

Pre-petit work list items: 190

Acura ARX-02a Statistics:

Chassis mechanical parts: 4000

Chassis electrical parts: 250

Engine parts: 100 (excluding internals of engine)

Gearbox parts: 350

Parts with tracked life: 1000 (excluding internals of engine)

Custom hardware (fasteners, o-rings, bearings): 450


Rebuild Statistics:

Parts reused: about 10%

Rebuild Timeline

(times are when tasks were completed, unless otherwise noted)

Thursday

3:43 PM - Accident

4:15 PM - Damaged assessment finished

4:45 PM - Spare part serial numbers allocated for car build

5:00 PM - Finalized arrangements to ship spare tub

6:00 PM - Spare tub picked up by freight service in California

6:45 PM - Damaged car stripped, reusable parts identified

11:00 PM - Replacement parts prepared and arranged for assembly

12:00 AM - Team back to hotel


Friday

7:10 AM - Spare tub arrives at Atlanta airport, met by team members

7:30 AM - Breakfast

8:00 AM - Begin preparation for car build, organize and layout assemblies

9:30 AM - Spare, bare tub arrives at track

11:00 AM - Tub preparation finished

12:00 PM - Lunch

11:30 PM - Fresh engine fitted

1:30 PM - Fresh gearbox fitted

6:00 PM - Dinner

8:00 PM - Four corners fitted on car

9:00 PM - Race spare preparation begins

11:45 PM - Hydraulic/fuel/electronic systems tested

Saturday

1:00 AM - Engine fired

4:30 AM - Car on ground

5:45 AM - Set up finished

6:45 AM - Race strategy meeting

8:15 AM - Warmup / Practice Session


[via Axis Of Oversteer, Patron Highcroft Racing, GrandTouringPrototype.com]