By Kamil Kaluski
It is after 2:00am. Those who were going to sleep are already doing so. Those who were not going to sleep aren’t sleeping yet. But the pits are different. The pits have to be ready for anything: emergency tire change, a refill under yellow, or a driver swap.
I decided to walk along the back of the pit-lane and peek into every pit I could along the way. I saw teams planning their stops, getting tires ready, eating, sleeping, telling jokes, organizing, or just being completely absent. There also interesting things pilled along the pit fence.
This is what I saw:
Greg Kachadurian
Did not realize it took that many computers to run a race.
That’s quite some side-eye from the guy with the torch burning the clag off the old tires.
Probably because I had the look like “WTF is this guy doing? And with a torch and the tire and the fuel right there?”
Probably because I had the look like “WTF is this guy doing? And with a torch and the tire and the fuel right there?”
My takeaway from all this as a Lemons racer is that our paddock space needs better chairs.
Not just your paddock space.
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I can only imagine the flooding in pit lane when the rain came – or do they have decent drainage there?
I guess it was decent. Small puddles, nothing not seen on sidewalks.
That’s good, I had visions of 1965 or whichever year it was the place nearly floated away. Perhaps they have paid more attention to that rather than some of the corners of the infield course.