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« on: July 23, 2019, 04:49:49 PM »
All of the practices were done when they started to work on Johnson's car. There was no (accident-driven) scenario in which Jimmie would have needed his back-up.
Formula 1, if I recall correctly, does have rules regarding the back-ups in the rulebook. I think each team (2 cars) is allowed a single back-up car. At Indianapolis teams are allowed to have back-up cars - but there are provisions in which they cannot have a race-ready car. This is where you saw differences when Alonso wrecked (took them days to be ready) versus Schmidt Peterson when Hinchcliffe wrecked. SPM had the back-up car ready to go - they rolled it out while undoing the engine from the primary car, swapped engines, and were done in under 90 minutes.