Strangest Thing to take/fall off a car - Page 3

Dave Brand · 28 Jun 2005, 08:49 (Ref:1341777)

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Originally Posted by RamblinStu

Now I’m no mechanical expert, but I cannot imagine what or how a spirit level could be useful a racecar, let alone a bright pink one.

Many uses in setting up a car!

KayBee · 28 Jun 2005, 15:08 (Ref:1342051)

The front windscreen fell off a car at the AMOC meeting a few years ago and it was collected intact at the end of the session by one of the clerks.

Hepatic · 28 Jun 2005, 17:56 (Ref:1342193)

we had a similar one to that last year at the Gt meeting. A corvette ran wide at lakeside and the rear windown fell out, and i think it was intact. That was until a ferrari also ran wide and ran over it!!!

Jennifer_ni · 28 Jun 2005, 18:09 (Ref:1342211)

I think about the best i've had is a torch from a btcc car at d23 in mondello 2 years ago!!

EvilPumpkin · 28 Jun 2005, 18:14 (Ref:1342217)

Ooh Grant got Tom Chilton falling out of his car - does that count?

Ian Briggs · 28 Jun 2005, 18:15 (Ref:1342218)

A few years ago in Hafren forest a Subaru rolled into the Scenery, depositing many enticing bits and bobs, including most of a snap-on tool kit, the Marshals on scene, attended to the crew and tidied up the mess, the crew announced their intention to walk back to the stage start. Despite the marshals asking them to stay with the car off the crew went, (two corners down the stage they were nearly killed by the recue crew coming to deal with their incident) When they returned to the scene, the snap-on tools had gone!
Moral, allways do as the Marshals ask!

206180 · 28 Jun 2005, 21:32 (Ref:1342363)

I know a driver lost his false teeth at a Bentley Drivers Club meeting earlier this year at Silverstone, marshals had them hanging in their hut apparently !!!

sib668 · 28 Jun 2005, 23:12 (Ref:1342434)

also had the entire rear window from a porsche 924 fly off at esses at Croft. Fully intact and collected at end of race

blueflagger · 29 Jun 2005, 02:02 (Ref:1342479)

We had a door come flying off a Porsche a few years ago at Mosport. All the marshals at the turn signed it and returned it to the pits. The next day, the car was racing with sigs all over the door.

KayBee · 29 Jun 2005, 13:50 (Ref:1342863)

Quote:

Originally Posted by Hepatic

we had a similar one to that last year at the Gt meeting. A corvette ran wide at lakeside and the rear windown fell out, and i think it was intact. That was until a ferrari also ran wide and ran over it!!!

Would you believe it but mine also happened on the sweep between Cascades and Lakeside..........

Shelagh · 29 Jun 2005, 16:47 (Ref:1343084)

Many years ago at a HSCC meeting at Brands, an old F1 car braked for Druids and all the information leaflets that had been displayed on the rear wing fell off. Still not entirely sure how they lasted that long!

The best one used to be the karting at the Autosport show at the NEC. Large quantities of loose change from pockets were gratefully collected by us all between sessions.

PS: The driver with the brass pig was told that it was probably not a good idea to re-attach it, as something that heavy coming off at speed could do somebody a nasty injury.

McPherson Strut · 29 Jun 2005, 23:28 (Ref:1343378)

Ex-Formula Atlantic racer, Bernard Hunter, arrived at Tower after the start of his race on the old circuit at Croft back in 1980 and was passed by his jump-start battery and the relevant leads which had been left attached to his car on the grid. The battery was last seen exploding into a mass of bits on the banking on the outside !! He also had a rather bizarre incident at Knockhill in the same year when on the last lap of practice for the Hitachi Formula Atlantic race, his engine blew up crossing up the start/finish line. It appears that the helmet intercom cable had been left disconnecetd after his last pit-stop and and had lodged in the timing belt on the front of the engine immediately behind his head. Result - very large and expensive bang !!
Also had a Metro Challenge car blow its engine at maximum revs coming thorugh Chapel onto the Hanger Straight at Silverstone back in 1985 at the GP meeting and part of the block came through the front wing and took a chunk out of the wall below the marshals post. Scary ! When we viewed the damaged engine after the event you could have put your foot in the hole left in the block !
Any more classic engine blow-ups ?

JohnD · 30 Jun 2005, 22:55 (Ref:1344314)

Sorry if I'm a bit indefinite about this, but a meeting a few years ago at Mallory included a race for big Yank Tanks. One exploded its clutch on the start-finish straight, and left half the clutch plate embedded in the underside of the bridge. I have a pic of it.
The hole in the bonnet was more than two-fist sized.
JOhn

Shelagh · 1 Jul 2005, 19:02 (Ref:1344937)

On my mantlepiece is a rather large chunk of gearbox that hit the top of the armco approx 12 inch from where my Bill was standing. He knew nothing until it hit.

Is he a fool for keeping it or am I a bigger fool for dusting it?

JLD · 2 Jul 2005, 19:18 (Ref:1345571)

Found a brake spanner on the track at Oulton today. It wasn't there at the end of the morning session, but was before tha start of the afternoon session, so it must have come from;
1) one of the NW Centre MGs that were parading around the track during the lunch break.
2) a marshal's car as they went to/from lunch
3) a rescue or course car.

anyone know which?

Dutch chap · 2 Jul 2005, 21:46 (Ref:1345618)

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Originally Posted by PVDA

Most interesting thing I've seen fly off a car was at the Winton Formula Ford Festival many years ago one of the FF's run over a large brown snake that had decided to cross the track mid race. The body of said snake was flung into the air and landed on the engine cover of a following car. If only it came down a little sooner, I'd love to have seen a drivers reaction to a snake landing on his lap

Oh, the snake didn't make it.

Er, snakes? Australia you say? / make note for myself: do not marshall in Australia/

Dutch chap · 2 Jul 2005, 22:01 (Ref:1345623)

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Originally Posted by danccooke

..... at the end of the race a certain Turkish driver who had threatened to punch me ...

Remarkable, I never had a driver coming at me in 26 years of marshalling.

Frank (1m94, 97 kg)

gravel_monkey · 3 Jul 2005, 11:17 (Ref:1345878)

well at clay hill on mgcc yesterday we found an electric toothbrush on the track?

1200Datto27 · 3 Jul 2005, 12:23 (Ref:1345914)

I found an "electric device" that came out of a car at a National round that I marshalled at a few years ago.

It was passed on to the sector marshall with the car number, never heard what happened with it.

Shelagh · 3 Jul 2005, 17:54 (Ref:1346176)

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Originally Posted by Dutch chap

Er, snakes? Australia you say? / make note for myself: do not marshall in Australia/

Who needs Australia! A few years back racing was delayed at Pembrey because of snakes on the startline!

KayBee · 3 Jul 2005, 19:31 (Ref:1346253)

I don't think it fell from a car but on the first track inspection yesterday I found a blown egg, perfectly clean and empty, but with the missing top placed inside it.

COLIN STUBBS · 4 Jul 2005, 08:32 (Ref:1346602)

Quote:

Originally Posted by JohnD

Sorry if I'm a bit indefinite about this, but a meeting a few years ago at Mallory included a race for big Yank Tanks. One exploded its clutch on the start-finish straight, and left half the clutch plate embedded in the underside of the bridge. I have a pic of it.
The hole in the bonnet was more than two-fist sized.
JOhn

i was in that race and it was the most bizarre thing ive seen whilst racing!! the mustangs flywheel exploded along the start/finish straight in qualifying for a phtc race. the bellhousing was smashed.the chassis rails were cut through each side along with the brake lines/wiring/etc.the main part must have come upwards cutting a big hole in the bonnet. as we lined up for our race in the afternoon someone noticed half the flywheel stuck in the bridge.........

175MPH · 4 Jul 2005, 10:05 (Ref:1346677)

One of the guys at Croix over the weekend picked up a set of nail clippers??,
.

Grandslammer · 4 Jul 2005, 10:14 (Ref:1346686)

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Originally Posted by 175MPH

One of the guys at Croix over the weekend picked up a set of nail clippers??,
.

Are you sure they weren't Snail clippers!!

sinex · 4 Jul 2005, 12:05 (Ref:1346781)

2 years ago while marshalling the British Championship round at Gurston, I was on Ashes corner and some Kitchen Roll came out of Adam Fleetwoods car during the top 12 run off.

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