[F500] Great race today

[McAbee, Chuck]

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
-----Original Message-----
From: f500-bounces+chuck_mcabee=csx.com at f500.org
[mailto:f500-bounces+chuck_mcabee=csx.com at f500.org]On Behalf Of Dave
Riddle
Sent: Sunday, April 23, 2006 20:15
To: wheeltowheel at wheeltowheel.com; f500 at f500.org
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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