Monday, July 18, 2011
Wheelie embarrassing
If you pulled out of your driveway or away from the roadside and one of your car’s wheels just fell off, it would be a bit embarrassing wouldn’t it?
We’d certainly look around and hope no-one saw.
Now imagine how embarrassed Jenson Button must have been at the British Grand Prix in front of a more than 120,000-strong crowd at Silverstone this year when, just a few metres out of the pit-stop, his front right wheel came loose.
As it happens, this was due to a simple human error by a member of the pit-stop crew, but it unfortunately meant that the Formula One driver was unable to finish the race and that McLaren was fined £4,433 from FIA for its unsafe pit-stop release.
Reportedly Button was initially irate at the slip-up, but after calming down he said, "We all make mistakes, and you always hope they won't happen, but this is even more disappointing as it's in front of my home crowd."
Well, if Jenson Button feels bad, we can’t imagine how the mechanic feels right now!
Photo by amika_san via Flickr, under Creative Commons Licence
Labels: British Grand Prix, Jenson Button, McLaren, pit-stop, Silverstone, wheel
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posted by Fuse @ 12:51 AM 
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