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In such a short span of time, the Circuit de Catalunya is already near completion with the repairs to the burnt garage that the Williams team occupied during last weekends GP. Reporting to our colleagues at GPUpdate, a spokesperson said, "It hasn't affected the building – only the electrical fittings in the garage," which has made the process so quick.
I can't imagine the FIA imposing penalties for replacing parts on a car that was damaged in an unrelated incident. Depending on how hosed/hot the car got they might have to go to a full replacement rather than just bits and pieces.SiLo wrote:I was going to ask the same thing, what happens if there was damage to the car and part need to be replaced?
How do you know that it wasn't arson to be considered force majeur? I don't think it was - but I don't think it would hold up in a court of law, strictly speaking.enz0 wrote:It was an uncontrollable circumstance
Most fire brigades and police arson squads are very smart, especially when working with hydrochloric acid fires/burns which can clean evidence in a flash.raymondu999 wrote:How do you know that it wasn't arson to be considered force majeur? I don't think it was - but I don't think it would hold up in a court of law, strictly speaking.enz0 wrote:It was an uncontrollable circumstance
Maybe they had something illegal going on making Pastor so quick and they were burning the evidence, making it look like accidental arson
*second paragraph was tongue in cheek
raymondu999 wrote:
Maybe they had something illegal going on making Pastor so quick and they were burning the evidence, making it look like accidental arson
"Photos showed grand prix winner Pastor Maldonado heroically carrying on his back to safety his 12-year-old cousin" -->> taken from [yalla].
tomazy wrote:
What about the one where it was triggered by the self destruct feature of the winning ticket for the Perelli lottery.GrizzleBoy wrote:Guys, it's quite obvious they had large amounts of pixie dust stored in their garage.
It's the same pixie dust that allows their car to be so compact and its the same pixie dust that they sprinkled on Maldonados hands, feet and tyres.
As anyone who has an understanding of electrical/fuel hazards, knows high concentrations of dust in the atmosphere create highly flammable situations.
During the celebration of Mr Williams' birthday and first team win in eight years, someone decided it was a good idea to put a sparkler candle on poor Mr Williams' cake.
With the high levels of pixie dust eminating from Maldonado and whever they have their pixie dust stored, the ignition and burning of the sparker immediately lit the atmosphere, causing the air to blaze above the Williams teams heads (this is verifiable by statements made by Mr Williams's son to the Sky team).
With the air literally on fire, other fire sensitive substances also exposed to high concentrations of pixie dust were soon ignited, causing a dirty black smoke to begin flowing out of the Williams garage.
Luckily, there were many heroic people from team members, to other teams team members, to media crews who were immediately on hand to begin bringing the fire under control, long before emergency services arrived (which imo was far far far too long).
I expect to see new regulations regarding magical substances appearing soon as this kind of devastation is not something F1 needs to see any time soon.
