This years Petit Lemans had quite the drama. Scott Sharp wrote off a car in practice in a spectacular shunt where he walked away. The Shunt [ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I361oZvBqYE"]YouTube - 2009 Petit Le Mans Scott Sharp HUGE Practice Crash[/ame] The team had to fly in the only remaining monocoque left in the US from CA and then build a new car. The following is the effort that took just of 24 hours condensed into just over 2 min. An incredible amount of work that show true professionalism from the crew. [ame=http://www.vimeo.com/6773074]ALMS: Patron Highcroft Petit Le Mans Rebuild on Vimeo[/ame]
THE BUILD RECAP / TIME-LINE Pre-petit work list items: 190 Acura ARX-02a Statistics: Chassis mechanical parts: 4000 Chassis electrical parts: 250 Engine parts: 100 (excluding internals of engine) Gearbox parts: 350 Parts with tracked life: 1000 (excluding internals of engine) Custom hardware (fasteners, o-rings, bearings): 450 Rebuild Statistics: Parts reused: about 10% Rebuild Timeline (times are when tasks were completed, unless otherwise noted) Thursday 3:43 PM - Accident 4:15 PM - Damaged assessment finished 4:45 PM - Spare part serial numbers allocated for car build 5:00 PM - Finalized arrangements to ship spare tub 6:00 PM - Spare tub picked up by freight service in California 6:45 PM - Damaged car stripped, reusable parts identified 11:00 PM - Replacement parts prepared and arranged for assembly 12:00 AM - Team back to hotel Friday 7:10 AM - Spare tub arrives at Atlanta airport, met by team members 7:30 AM - Breakfast 8:00 AM - Begin preparation for car build, organize and layout assemblies 9:30 AM - Spare, bare tub arrives at track 11:00 AM - Tub preparation finished 12:00 PM - Lunch 11:30 PM - Fresh engine fitted 1:30 PM - Fresh gearbox fitted 6:00 PM - Dinner 8:00 PM - Four corners fitted on car 9:00 PM - Race spare preparation begins 11:45 PM - Hydraulic/fuel/electronic systems tested Saturday 1:00 AM - Engine fired 4:30 AM - Car on ground 5:45 AM - Set up finished 6:45 AM - Race strategy meeting 8:15 AM - Warmup / Practice Session
That's truly amazing. They should have a race where the teams show up with no assembled car and they have to put the car together and complete a lap within a 24hour period.