I bent my front left hinge pin in my last race (During a heat race) I bent it around 30 degrees from new.
But it was from a very bad crash (My fault and a rut) at full throttle at the end of our back strait wall. But, when I did it, I also broke the front left arm in half, 4mm & 5mm rod ends, bend the dog bone and sway bar bad, bent the front hinge plate out and that hinge pin.
I just had to laugh over it, that racing.
But, I was running in the next heat strong