I am told that LA Knight is a star. WWE likes him. Fans like him. Slim Jim likes him. This is why it was disappointing that Knight’s automotive shenanigans were confined to a simple, albeit kickass, segment where Knight peeled into the arena in a Slim Jim-themed sports car.

Ross, you might say to yourself, what do cars have to do with wrestling?

Usually? Nothing. But when the entire PPV is automotive-themed, emanating from the home of the Indy 500, and has already shown a sweet Slim Jim-themed sports car is the background? Cars mean everything, and WWE Fastlane woefully underdelivered on awesome car moments. Now that Fastlane is no longer a part of “The Road to WrestleMania,” it becomes twice as important to deliver on the car-centric thrills as ever, and WWE failed on that front.

Outside of the two Formula One racers that framed the entryway, Fastlane felt like any other WWE show. It didn’t even feel grand enough to be a PPV — more like one of those themed episodes of “Raw,” where they decide to add a British telephone box to the stage or something. What could have helped this air of bland sameness? LA Knight speeding out into the arena in his awesome Slim Jim car — that we all know was backstage because they showed it to us — the roar of the engine riling up the crowd’s blood and making Knight feel like the star that people keep telling me he is.

Whether or not a stunt like that is feasible is, quite frankly, not my problem. I am not the one who brought a Slim Jim-themed sports car to Indianapolis and didn’t use it to its fullest potential, that’s on WWE.

It’s a very simple principle: Don’t show the audience something they can’t have. Like so much of WWE’s stunts, there was nothing tactile about seeing Knight drive the car on a big movie screen. LA Knight having a sick Slim Jim hotrod means nothing if the crowd doesn’t get to bask in the glory of its rumbling American steel, going mad at the smell of burning rubber and gasoline. LA Knight deserves better. The fans deserve better. Slim Jim deserves better.