The car is in condition to win the race.

After a slow start it became the thing to do; 'everyone went to see Pbi-Pbi, no one talked of anything but Pbi-Pbi […] '

¹⁹²Located southeast of modern Tan-feng 丹鳳 County in Shensi near the intersection of the three modern provinces of Honan, Shensi, and Hupei (Wang Li-ch'i, 6:127n.).

Sure enough, they've got mullered. They're yesterday's men. The sands of time have washed over them.