Re: The Monaco gp
Originally Posted by
Primus1
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Drivers and pit crews practice pit stops relentlessly, if the driver doesn’t line up EXACTLY with the wheel guns, that means they have to adjust their positions ever so slightly, this costs time, milliseconds but it all adds up, and incredulous as it sounds, can make the difference as to where you come out on track, critical at Monaco, valteri didn’t line up so the wheel gun stripped the thread and effectively machined a flange so the wheel wouldn’t come off, they still hadn’t got it off as of yesterday…
So the wheels were apparently out of line by about 9 inches if
the video, and reports made to be believed Primus ?
But three wheels were changed with no problem, so what went wrong on the fourth wheel ??
Another thing l noticed was that while the front wheels were past
the box lines , the rear wheels were in line with the box lines ??
This points to the cars wheelbase being longer than the pit
markings ??
Imo the operator of the front right wheel spanner made a mistake
by not aligning the gun/spanner correctly and by pressing the
trigger too soon, and thus the hardened gun socket actually
acted like a router and machined the driving faces completely
off the nut leaving nothing to drive against ??
Bottle can take no blame for this as l doubt any driver ever gets
perfectly in line, the spanner man should be able to accommodate
any misalignment of the car quite easily as proved by the other
three wheels ??
The gun operator should be sanctioned in some way !!
Donkeyman! 🤔🤔