Leaving the pits

 

As we saw in Hungary, the marshalls seemed quiet happy to retrieve a car (Heidfeld's) backwards down the pitlane, despite the obvious danger. OK, cars aren't going quite as quickly when they leave the pits, but it can still cost a driver a lot of time.

In Germany, an HRT was being pushed backwards by the team's mechanics, rather close to where we would have been exiting the pits - the yellow markers are where we stop. Fortunately we weren't planing to stop then, but if we'd had to, we would have lost at least a couple of seconds. Which would, of course, only have been relevant to the other HRT...