This one was about 20 years ago. I was chief of tech for a 1 day racing school at Lime Rock Park (Why am I always chief of tech? Must be too stupid to turn down the job. I really should do something about that.)
So there is a driver in an ITA RX-7 who is fast and aggressive - and she spins her IT car in a fast part of the track. Her car doesn't have clips or straps on the windows, so when she spins it the windshield pops out, lands on the track and develops the expect spiderweb of cracks while staying on "one piece" - sort of.
She returns to the false grid for the next session sans windshield (it's not a spare you normally stick in the back of the pickup.) Grid quite correctly sends her away, the configuration is not permitted. A little bit later I get a radio call, "tech please send someone to grid". I walk on over. Her crew (which i as i recall was her father) has duct taped the cracked windshield back into the car and thinks she should be allowed to go back out that way, despite the fact that there is no way that she can see through it. I support the grid workers who have made the correct decision and direct them to take the car back to the paddock. Her father was an experienced driver who should have known better; I never figured that one out. I guess even crew chiefs can get the red mist.
