Disaster...

[brainbug007]

I was working on drilling out the holes in one of my side panels for the front suspension and it was going well until I got to the last hole. About halfway through drilling the hole with a holesaw, the drill kind of jammed/got stuck on the grp and there was a nasty kickback which made the drill twist in my hands. The grp inbetween all of the holes then cracked and practically broke off. It's only hanging on really by a few threads so to speak so I'm wondering what my options are going to be now. I can't really afford to replace the whole panel at the moment so I guess that only leaves me with 2 options that I can think of. 1) I try to repair the grp but never have worked with grp I'm worried I will just make an even worse mess of it and I can imagine trying to get the right color will be quite difficult.. 2) I just cut the whole section out and have a sort of square shaped hole (I'm sure I've seen a picture of a companys side panels on here somewhere like that). Granted this wouldn't look as good but I'm also thinking it will make IVA harder as won't the tester try shoving his 100mm sphere in there which means everything will need the 2.5mm curves? I'm thinking things like suspension brackets and the water inlet pipe bracket, and alternator are over there for example and these definately wouldn't pass any 2.5mm rules I'm guessing?

Any suggestions would be very welcome!