Does the T-car share the number of the first drivers car?

[DOCG]

For example Ferrari's T-car would have Schumacher's number 1 on it? So if Barichello crashed and went to the T-car both Ferrari cars would be running with the same number?

What about about the drivers name decals on the headrest? For example on Schumacher's car it has his name with the German flag, is this on the T-car or is it blank?

[Zarco]

Is this question from 2004?

Surely they must have just changed the number to suit. No way could they run the same number.

[TheDeuce]

I'm assuming as they swapped out the seat and the driver was running to reach the car, they'd find the time to slap the number on the car.

[DOCG]

Zarco said:

Is this question from 2004?

Surely they must have just changed the number to suit. No way could they run the same number.

Would they really have time to change the number when the driver is running to the T-car after a first lap crash? I know the number is just a sticker but still.

[TheDeuce]

DOCG said:

Zarco said:

Is this question from 2004?

Surely they must have just changed the number to suit. No way could they run the same number.

Would they really have time to change the number when the driver is running to the T-car after a first lap crash? I know the number is just a sticker but still.

I honestly don't know tbh but surely it's not beyond an F1 team to have a T car with a blank where the number is and then slap on a printed self adhesive number? It would take seconds.. Getting it ready for whichever driver came running would take longer.

Bizarre yet interesting question..

[Zarco]

Yes.

[Mr Dendrite]

weren’t T cars dropped in around 2008. Bizarre question by one of the most random posters we’ve seen. Keeps starting random questions on old F1 topics. Me thinks either joker, Bot, or some kind of student project?

[Europa1]

Mr Dendrite said:

weren’t T cars dropped in around 2008. Bizarre question by one of the most random posters we’ve seen. Keeps starting random questions on old F1 topics. Me thinks either joker, Bot, or some kind of student project?

Also confused by this question from the past, I can only agree with your analysis of OP. The Daytona for the US GP was particularly special.

[Muzzer79]

DOCG said:

Zarco said:

Is this question from 2004?

Surely they must have just changed the number to suit. No way could they run the same number.

Would they really have time to change the number when the driver is running to the T-car after a first lap crash? I know the number is just a sticker but still.

What on earth are you on about?

There is no ‘T’ car. There is a spare chassis back in one of the trucks that can be used if you, for example, bin it heavily on a Friday but it has to be in a certain (very) disassembled state.

If you crash after the first lap, you are out of the race.

[Pericoloso]

TheDeuce said:

Bizarre yet interesting question..

Yes to the former ,no to the latter .

[TheDeuce]

Pericoloso said:

TheDeuce said:

Bizarre yet interesting question..

Yes to the former ,no to the latter .

Forgive me - it's not a question I ever cared to ask.. In fact I think I would have to have done and achieved everything in life before I gave a crap about how they got the number on the car.

But now the question has been asked - I just want confirmation that they just stuck a self adhesive number to the car

[TheDeuce]

dibbers006 said:

They just wrote Maldonado on it and left it at that.

Yes, I know.

I miss that guy. He made every GP interesting

[thegreenhell]

TheDeuce said:

But now the question has been asked - I just want confirmation that they just stuck a self adhesive number to the car

How else would you even imagine they did it?

[Ultuous]

I thought everyone knew that Mansell's 'Red' 5 dates back to Brands Hatch 86, where upon seeing the first lap pile-up from his stricken vehicle, he charged back to the pits, commandeered Piquet's car and daubed his make-shift number on the vehicle in red paint?...

[TheDeuce]

thegreenhell said:

TheDeuce said:

But now the question has been asked - I just want confirmation that they just stuck a self adhesive number to the car

How else would you even imagine they did it?

Fair point. I'm only questioning it at all because someone else asked the question. Seems obvious to me... It's pretty much what stickers were designed for.

[Mr Dendrite]

Ultuous said:

I thought everyone knew that Mansell's 'Red' 5 dates back to Brands Hatch 86, where upon seeing the first lap pile-up from his stricken vehicle, he charged back to the pits, commandeered Piquet's car and daubed his make-shift number on the vehicle in red paint?...

This is not not correct. Mansell was using the red five already in 1985. He won the the 1985 Grand Prix of Europe at Brands with a red 5 on his car. The 1986 British Grand Prix at Brands (last F1 race there) It is correct he had to change cars, and yes the T car was allocated to Piquet but Mansell didn’t have to commandeer it. the delay was over an hour before the restart, due to Jacques Laffites horrendous accident.
So what you thought everyone knew, is not what is true...

[kiseca]

They'd probably have swapped the nosecone out and put a cone on with the correct number on it, at least if the two drivers were running different nose wing configurations, because I'd expect they had spare nosecones for both drivers ready and waiting with their race settings applied. Wouldn't be so simple with the numbers on the side though.

[DOCG]

Muzzer79 said:

What on earth are you on about?

There is no ‘T’ car. There is a spare chassis back in one of the trucks that can be used if you, for example, bin it heavily on a Friday but it has to be in a certain (very) disassembled state.

If you crash after the first lap, you are out of the race.

Depends which era of F1 you are racing in

[thegreenhell]

DOCG said:

Depends which era of F1 you are racing in

Most of use aren't Time Lords, so we're limited to talking about anything other than the current era in the past tense.