Cleetus McFarland's World Cup ends with a spark-plug scramble

Mullet fills with smoke, McFlurry cuts power and Leroy leaves the crew racing a repair deadline after promising qualifying runs.

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World Cup Day 4: We Beat Ourselves... Small Mistakes Ruined Our Race Day

Leroy is ready for another elimination round. Then, during the burnout, the engine drops a cylinder, leaving Cleetus McFarland's crew scrambling over a spark-plug problem with just 30 seconds allowed for repairs.

It is the last frustration in a World Cup Finals race day that unravels car by car. Roughly 1.1 million views have come in since yesterday for the vlog, which follows the team from confident pit-lane preparations to an empty elimination schedule at Maryland International Raceway.

The contrast with qualifying is sharp. Mullet had delivered a personal-best pass earlier in the weekend, while Leroy's record-setting progress was the subject of the previous episode. Speed wasn't the missing ingredient here.

Mullet goes first. Partway through its opening race against a Toyota Corolla, a transmission line bursts and smoke fills Cleetus's cabin. He lifts off, losing the run. Back in the pits, the crew studies the damaged line, struggling to explain the failure. Viewers are singling out the onboard footage, which makes the smoke-filled interruption look much more alarming than it does from outside.

Jackstand Jimmy's McFlurry also loses power during its opening run, but the explanation emerges on a computer: an overly aggressive boost safety cutoff has intervened. A setting intended to protect the machinery has ended its race.

Leroy supplies the day's winning pass and advances, keeping the crew in contention until that second-round burnout. The repair window closes before they can resolve the problem.

Cleetus calls the episode "World Cup Day 4: We Beat Ourselves... Small Mistakes Ruined Our Race Day". The most revealing scenes aren't just the runs: they are the crew gathered around a melted line, telemetry and an engine that sounded fine when they warmed it up.

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