If you want to know how your team will perform under pressure, you have to put them into a real-world situation. No matter what industry you’re in there are times when the entire team could feel like their “back is against the wall” and have to do their best work under the pressure of a lack of time and a serious demand of talents in order to create results that allow the project to move forward in a successful manner. This is how one team felt recently when the challenge in front of them seemed greater than the time allotted to complete the task.
What Brought Us to this Point
During the qualifying for the Spa 24 Hours, the number 22 GT-R NISMO GT3 suffered a punctured tire which sent the car into the barrier. At the speed the car was traveling, the entire front end of the car was destroyed causing massive damage to the vehicle. With just a short time before the race would take place this team was faced with two choices; leave the track and forget this race or try and fix the damage and get out on the track. This team chose to do what they could to get back out on the track. This meant it would take a concerted effort from every member of the team to help bring the car back to form in order to head out on the track and enter the race in a form that would be passable by the team and race officials. With the goal of entering the race and being an active participant, the team for the number 22 car was poised to handle the work that was needed to allow the car to be made ready to race and head out on the track.
Was the Team Able to Complete the Task?
Over twelve hours of hard work and effort by every member of this racing team the effort was to make it possible to head out on the track and be able to compete. As the hours passed, NISMO TV caught the repair on video and brought us this short except you see linked below to bring the car to bring the car to the level needed to put it back on the track. This team stepped up and got the job done to make sure the car would be able to race.
The results of this concerted effort to repair a heavily damaged car were a 30thplace finish in the race, which is certainly much better than not racing at all or not finishing. That’s pretty good considering just a few days and hours before the race the front of this race car had been smashed in. This result goes to show you what a team can do when they are put up to the challenge of a short period of time to get a huge job done and still bring some positive results in the process.
