Comments on: Five more pit box blunders (Video)

By: Lustigson

Lustigson — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:52:00 +0000

@ Richard C

Surely nearly barbecueing Jos Verstappen in his Benetton days was the one to beat.

That’s wasn’t technically a pit stop ‘blunder’, because Benetton had delibirately left out a certain fuel filter.

By: loo9n

loo9n — Sun, 05 Oct 2008 10:56:42 +0000

“scattering his pit crew like bowling pins”…
i think gatson mazzacane in a minardi did that at the 2000 us gp..

By: Richard C

Richard C — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 21:30:16 +0000

Surely nearly barbecueing Jos Verstappen in his Benetton days was the one to beat.

By: Stealthman

Stealthman — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:30:51 +0000

Interesting. Other drivers may have made blunders with stops, but Nakajima’s was the one that had the biggest impact on me, apart from Massa’s at Singapore.

By: the limit

the limit — Sat, 04 Oct 2008 02:20:09 +0000

Concerning the Irvine fiasco back in 1999, I always suspected a little bit of a conspiracy may have been played out there. As you all know, Schumacher’s season became seriously unhinged at Silverstone inwhich he broke a leg after his famous Stowe crash, meaning that Irvine became Ferrari’s best title hope in the championship.
I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall at the Schumacher residence, as Michael watched the season unfold and Irvine get ever closer to the championship.
The irony would not have been lost on Michael, that the team he had spent three years helping to rebuild were going to win their first title for twenty years without him.
The idea of Irvine winning the title is not unrealistic. Hakkinen had made crucial mistakes that year, at Imola and Monza, from commanding positions, and both Irvine and Salo had performed well. I would never have believed it fully then, but after witnessing the following years inwhich Rubens Barrichello always seemed to get the bad luck during a pitstop, I wouldn’t put anything past them.

By: Wesley

Wesley — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 21:43:52 +0000

@ ade:
“Was it Fisichella who turned up in his old team’s pit box in his new team’s car?”

Somebody please tell me there is video of that.

By: ade

ade — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 20:50:38 +0000

Was it Fisichella who turned up in his old team’s pit box in his new team’s car?

By: EGC

EGC — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:47:50 +0000

Very good work Keith, as usual…
Incredible Briatore’s face on the Johnny Herbert’s one
And Mansell… a champion!!! ))
Massa will have to work harder….

By: AmericanTifosi

AmericanTifosi — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 16:36:31 +0000

Massa’s Singapore incident was just unreal. Someone I was watching the race with commented that the mechanics carrying the hose back to the garage looked like Chinese New Years with the paper dragons.

By: kak

kak — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 15:15:44 +0000

Kovalainen arrived in the Renault pits last year at Montreal to find no mechanics waiting for him (it was just after Kubica’s accident). I don’t think it was caught by the cameras at the time.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Af4bkwxcVWk