The car came to a halt at Arnage and was retired 14 hours into the race.
Under state ownership Hindustan Zinc vehicle tires, designed to last 2,400 hours, were being retired at 1,800 hours.
The babble of Twitter and Facebook may even have contributed to the decision by Nico Rosberg to retire 24 hours after winning the Formula One world title; who could blame anyone for declining to remain any more than a day longer than necessary inside a world of fanboys and haters whose rancour drowns even the blare of racing engines?
TRACK AND FIELD Retirement Before Ban The United States shot-put champion Kevin Toth retired yesterday, only hours after the United States Olympic Committee announced that he could be suspended for two years for testing positive for the steroid THG and the stimulant modafinil at the national championships last June.
After a six-week trial, the jury retired for six hours to give their verdict, and Wright was jailed for life.
When, after four hours, retired archbishop Desmond Tutu stood up to address a virtually empty stadium, it summed up the frustrated sense of what might have been.
The 10th-seeded Fish won his third-round match on Saturday when his opponent, Robin Haase of the Netherlands, retired after 2 hours 34 minutes with leg, back and knee pain.
Carmen Zayas, 58, a nurse's aide who is retired, spends several hours a day at the center and helped paint the room and hang the flags of a dozen countries from Latin America and the Caribbean on the wall.
Frank was a firm believer in the therapeutic effects of cold water, and when he took over the training of Forego (after Sherrill Ward retired), he spent hours hosing down the gelding's notoriously bad legs.
The TX was eventually retired after six hours.
