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Originally Posted by peckstar
with 11 seconds between original accident and secondary accident. One of two things happened. eitehr the driver ignored the flags and didnt take appropriate action or the flags did not convey the apporpriate message (there a few reasons that could have happened) Thus both of these things are not racing incidents, they are a failure of the current system. The system can be fixed without changing the track
With at least 3 significant incidents happened now all for the same two reasons they are two things they can be fixed and shoudl be fixed. Only a bad workplace would let them continue
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Sure...however, Motorsport has human participants and human officials...humans make mistakes and/or can perform below par...so if you want a perfect race environment get a field of driverless autonomous hybrid vehicles together...personally, I would rather watch paint dry or grass grow.
The dodgy (like that?!) video available appears to show a Flag Point slow to react as was Race Control (and that could have been a related communications issue)...but on the other hand, and for example,
I have been in a situation where there was a collision at Bathurst, I made (what I thought) was a prompt reaction including radio report, beautiful, full Yellow flag, waved just at the right speed to maximise visibility, leaning over the ARMCO, clearly visible to the approaching drivers and guess what? a scene similar to a Blues Brothers crashfest occurred...
On a scale of one to ten, this incident was about 5...the Merc took enough avoiding action so as to just clip the rear end of the stalled car, rather than T boning and possibly being a fatal. There have been 10 out of 10 incidents elsewhere on the track...so why are people rabbiting on about this one? Red Flagged race? or just bored and need to get out more
