Originally Posted by
NUTS RuS
If it has a motorsport log book and the accident was deemed to have impacted in on the cage structure the scruitineers would have made a note in the log book on the day.
Front and rear panel damage and crumple zones very rarely affect a caged shell bad enough for it to be written off.
Sorry to read about it though Gary/Christian.
Cheers for that. With hindsight the APT car is not a major off. But I did wonder how you could be sure the cage hadnt been weakened in some way.
On a kind of related note. Whats the point at which teams retire a shell? (Assuming its not been comprehensively binned) How do they check for wear/failure/fatigue?