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Now that's what I call "Spirit of speed"!

One of the most famous was the pit stop of race leader Manfred von
Brauchitsch at the German GP 1938 when his car caught fire while
refueling. Afterwards he rejoined with the car still covered in white
fire extinguisher powder. But his steering wheel, which had to be
taken off to get in/out of the car because it was huge in diameter,
was not properly fixed and came off, resulting in a crash.
So, Mercedes teammate Richard Seaman from England, who had left the
pits just when v. Brauchitsch's car was on fire, won the German GP.

http://www.ddavid.com/formula1/ger1938.htm

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Matthias Flatt

:>Did they really make pitstops in those days?
: For sure! They needed to refuel and change tyres, because the engines
: were thirsty, tyre wear was a problem, and the races were long.

  I seem to remember a story about one of the pre-war German teams
having time for lunch (complete with table and tablecloth) in the pit
lane because they were so far ahead.

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Richard G. Clegg     Only the mind is waving
Dept. of Mathematics (Network Control group) Uni. of York.

www: http://manor.york.ac.uk/top.html

I think that story happened 1925 at the Belgian GP in Spa, when the
francophone teams that were supported by the local fans had to retire
all of their cars, and only the Alfa Romeo team was left.
Apparently, the crowd was not pleased at all about this, and as an
answer Alfa team leader Vittorio Jano invented the drive-in restaurant
during a pit-stop.

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Matthias Flatt