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Originally Posted by Holymoly
Sorry didn't mean to miss that point. No yellow flag would indicate circuit is clear so why slow down? Drivers is trusting the car is in a safe place. At speed not easy to make the right decision. Hence why we have marshals, race directors etc.
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There was a hazard board indicating there was a car off....my point is in the article the drivers felt that the car was in an unsafe position....so why push so hard in that sector....you can turn it down to 9/10ths.....after all it was only a practice session as both drivers used as argument for why it should have been red flagged. It's very easy to sit on a computer trying to apportion blame after looking at a video. What you don't have is any real idea of the communication between track and race control, any of the thought process behind the decisions and any of the experience of oulton park over the years. The marshals are there week in week out....their and race controls decisions aren't just necessarily based on 1 accident....it's based on years of racing.....there are 20 practice and race sessions a weekend, around 25 meetings a year and decades of experience between them all......statistically that accident is very small.....so at the time maybe it was the right call based on their perception of the car/risks.....hindsight is a wonderful thing but it's not what they have during a session