Meanwhile the FIA have since decided that it’s too dangerous to let pit crews work overnight, so we have all these hours when the car is impounded, apart from four jokers per year when you’re allowed to work overnight. Health-and-safety has its place, of course. The FIA are right, and fair enough, it probably is a bad idea to let off a cannon in the paddock. The problem is that you lose something in the process, and it hasn’t been replaced.
