Originally Posted by Iskald
I just thought this was funny, that you had footage from us losing one of many bumpers. Actually this became a major problem for us during the second half of the saturday and also sunday morning. We were left with only one rear bumper, partly wrecked by one of the italian guys, and there were none other left in the entire service park. Our solution was to dismount the bumper outside of the service area for others to pick it up and take care of it. We did this twice, but scrutineers soon started to take interest in us when they saw we were coming back into service without rear bumper every time. So we were told by someone in race control that we were close to being excluded if they saw us without the bumper one more time. When we came into service midday sunday our mechanics started to mount the bumper again, which wasn`t easy btw. because it was partly damaged and mounts didn`t fit anymore. But strips and gaffa tape works wonders, as everybody in autosport knows! Anyway, we just had the bumper mounted on the car, when three very serious and sinister looking scrutineers arrived in our tent. They just noted that the bumper was on, took a couple of pictures and left the tent. Not a word was exchanged, but we knew we just had escaped exclusion from the event!
