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Originally Posted by Tourer
 That's pretty good B13.
Actually, the wheel nut by itself is not a great problem - when a car runs over it and spits it out the back wheels it is a very, very big problem. It has happened once or twice and could well have caused serious injury or worse to someone in pit lane.
Car into wrong pit bay? pfft - nothing too nasty there - unless of course the car arrowed in way too hot to that bay etc, then something would have been done. |
A car going 40 km/hr in pit lane wouldn't cause too much damage if it ran over a wheel nut would it?
I was also thinking that a car entering the wrong pitbox caould be dangerous for the sole reason that, say, a wheel changer sees the car (of another team)and looks down or steps into the space that the car getting the service would be. The car then makes the mistake of peeling into the wrong pitbox and hits a member of the pit crew. For instance, lets just say that this has all happened in the space of a few short seconds?