From the replay however it looked the lollipop man clearly jumped
the gun, not just anticipated the fuel rig clearing too soon. Looked
like he may have been thinking flip the sign (Brakes to Gear) and
lifted it clear instead. Jensen then did what practice told him to
do - pull out of the pits.
Went back to the DVR and fast forwarded to Jensen's first pitstop on
lap 16. The lollipop was not lifted until "all" the crew was clear
of the car and the fuel rig was disengaged. In fact the fuel rig was
disengaged before the rear jack was down.
On the stop where he drove off with the rig attached (lap 30) the
lollipop was lifted even before the front jack man had cleared the
car! Went back and counted the frames and from the first movement
upward of the lollipop to the first movement to bring it back down
was only 12 frames. The speed of video is 30 frames per second so
the lollipop guy reacted lifted and started to replace the stop sign
within half a second. From the replay looking at the car from the
front you can clearly see the fuel rig and the guys working it have
not even budged when the lollipop got lifted. Sometimes you see them
tugging on it to get it disengaged but even that was not happening
when this occurred.
The most amazing thing about this incident however is that not only
was there no fire but it did not even look like there was even a
significant fuel spill. Pretty amazing considering that their fuel
rigs are pressurized and not just gravity fed.
At 09:20 PM 4/23/2006, you wrote:
With all due respect. I expect F1 teams choreograph their pit stops and
practice them 'endlessly'. I also expect that a part of the
choreography is when the fueler begins the actions of disengaging the
fuel rig the lollypop guy give the 'go' sign. If the lollypop waits
until the fuel rig is fully detached, a second or more is added to the
pit stop. It is somewhat like line play in a football game, you go on
the snap count with every 'step' of the play choreographed for the
pulling guard to make his move and lead the ball carrier around the end.
When the choreography works, the play works and no one takes any
exceptions to the 'corners' that were cut expecting particular actions
to occur. The same with this pit stop, only the expected action -
fueler smoothly removing the fuel rig did not occur - when that happens
everyone looks like the fool.
Chuck McAbee
SEDIV #16
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Riddle
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 20:15
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Subject: [F500] Re: [WtW] Great race today
> You forgot to mention Button driving away from his pit with the fuel
hose
>still attached! Great in-car of that incident.....
>
I can just imagine what Gil said to the "lollipop" man about his
signaling Jensen to go before the fuel hose was disconnected and then
of course hitting Jensen on the head with it when he tried to get him
to stop. Certainly had the potential to be far worse than it was.
Shows the foresight that Ferrari have shown in having the back side
of the lollipop being a convex mirror so that the driver too can see
what is going on behind him while stopped. Anyone notice if any of
the other teams have a mirror on their lollipop too?
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