PROFANE, PROFOUND, AND PROUD OF IT: LARRY HOLT IS THE ENGINEERING WIZARD BEHIND A BILLION-DOLLAR AUTOMOTIVE EMPIRE. IT'S TAKEN TWO DAYS OF HIKING around Daytona International Speedway, but I've finally found Larry Holt. As the man in charge of engineering and motorsport operations at Multimatic, Holt is keeping tabs on 12 cars built at the Canadian company's factory near Toronto - two Ford GTs, two Mazda RT24-P DPi prototypes, the BAR1 LMP2 car, and seven Ford Mustang GT4s - so I figured he'd be easy to find. And even easier to spot, with his halo of frizzy white hair and muttonchops straight out of a Civil War portrait. In a motorsport world where just about everybody conforms to the same cosmetic conventions, he stands out like a stripper in a tent revival.
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