It has been brought to my notice, unofficially, that Ferrari’s F.1 Team has fired its entire Pit crew! A very strange move.
It is said and accepted that the F.1 race is actually won or lost in the Pits!
Ferrari came to this decision to take advantage of the unemployed Indian youth in the Dharavi area, which is reputed to be one of the largest slums in the country.
The youngsters may be unemployed but they have a very specialised and unique profession. Having taken to crime at an early age, they have made it an art form.
The boys started off by stealing hub caps from expensive cars and reselling them.
Now, the owner of a Mercedes could not drive around without a hub cap. The car looked ugly.
So he contacted a well established underground pipeline for this flourishing business.
Within 24 hours the original hub cap was back, for a price! The car owner was thrilled, so were the boys. A win-win situation. So what if it was illegal. But the, most Indian Business have a tinge of illegality!
The boys were too good at their business.
After a while the hub cap stealing having been perfected, it became boring. They saw another opening to advance their business.
As they removed hub caps, they saw four or five nuts which held the rim and tire to the car.
These street smart urchins with just one spanner could remove a wheel in seconds.
It came to Ferrari’s attention that these boys, without any special or high tech tools could remove a set of wheels, all four of them in under 6 seconds. Amazing! The Ferrari Pit Crew, highly trained and with pneumatic tools, was taking 8-10 seconds.
Letting go of the Pit crew team was indeed a bold and unheard of move in the F.1 world. The Dharavi Dozen replaced the original Ferrari Pit Team.
However, Ferrari’s joy was short lived. The Dharavi Dozen having changed the wheels in 6 seconds re-sprayed the car, changed the colour. This took 60 seconds! Next they filled off the chassis and engine number and had sold the car to the Mercedes Team!
Shabash Dharavi Dozen!
