Saturday, January 31, 2009

Pit crew FAIL!


I'm sure we've all seen video of motor-racing pit crews changing tires, refueling cars, and so on. Their speed and dexterity are sometimes pretty amazing, as in this clip of a training session.





Unfortunately, not all pit crews are so conscientious . . .







Peter

4 comments:

  1. Can we pray that it's a metaphor for The One's "First Hunnert Days"?

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  2. There was no pit crew involved here, but likely only one young man with no understanding of force, torque, tensile strength, or g-force.

    In other words, he bolted on Da Shiny rims with Da Wrong Nuts and Dey's fell off.

    He should have taken my class (g).

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  3. Ouch... I feel his pain... That's what torque wrenches are for :-)

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  4. I tried one time to explain on a car forum how to use a box-end wrench and a fish scale to torque a bolt. I think I would have been better off explaining it to my cat.

    Also, the pit crews that do it well are very impressive indeed.

    Jim

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