"Red and Chequered"

[JimW]

I suppose the difference there is that with both flaqgs being displayed the result will be taken from the lap it is stopped on and with a red only, result it would be rolled back to the previous lap.

I guess that the chequered would be "defined" as having been displayed after the red . I suspect that this use of the two together is 'undefined' and the clerk might have to make a reasonable decision. Good luck!

Interesting to see in today's MSA publication for licence holders (motorsportsnow! - sorry about the punctuation - its theirs!) that a new regulation (J.5.4.6 for 2007) is proposed to cover the case where the race is interrupted after the chequered flag is shown. I guess that by 'interrupted' they mean that a red flag is shown because a situation needs to to be controlled faster than would be achieved by the chequered.

I have known such a situation and so I can see that specifying how placings are determined makes sense.

Regards

Jim