satos... You still have not answered "see". Let me put it another way - how do they "know" to look for damage? * CF etc. tend to "spring back" when struck, and on the exterior show no damage, yet internally there is delamination etc. - a typical airliner scenario when struck by a servicing vehicle, which is the cause of 90%+ of the patches discussed above.
<<they can patch repair the tub which makes it stronger in that area than before >> This is easy in "basic structures", say boats. Surprised so at F1 where you are presumably using unidirectional fibres, and you have to strip the damaged area back and somehow link in the "repair" fibres into the original long fibres... Remember we are not talking a sport - we are talking a certified passenger vehicle
* The answer cannot be "because the driver of said vehicle says so"
