their cars were prepared by frank williams, later a formula one team owner. he also recorded several albums for sun between 1979 and 1981, and built up a substantial live following, still wearing his mask. it had an engine failure in flight on 1 december 1949 that caused a belly landing, but it was repaired and returned to flight testing. comic book resources named the episode as the 6th best episode in 2016 among comic book-related television series. he was classified 17th (five laps behind) despite crashing in the heavy storm at the end of the race. 