Purpose. One of the main purposes of the phospholipid bilayer are to provide structure to a cell, which it does because of the natural arrangement of the hydrophobic and hydrophilic ends of the phospholipids, and with the stabilizing cholesterol and sterols.
NASCAR Driver Crashes Into Track Dryer, Creating Fiery Daytona Delay. Safety workers try to extinguish a fire from a jet dryer after being hit by Juan Pablo Montoya, driver of the #42 Target Chevrolet, under caution during the Daytona 500 on February 27, 2012 in Daytona Beach, Florida.
They did it, and this is what it looked like. The Ford EcoBoost powered DP ran on the oval, not the road course, with the express intent of beating Bill Elliott's 1987 record of 210.364 in a stock car. They obliterated it by 12 MPH, setting a speed of 222.971 MPH. It's not the exact same thing as being in a stock car, but it's still damn impressive. Team owner Michael Shank and driver Colin Braun took some time to talk about it after and what it meant, check it out.