That race should have been stopped. Brazil last year was another that could have been stopped too, but man Max put on a show in the rain.
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No caution in that corner. Green flag was being waved right above where they were recovering the other car. IMO, someone should have went to jail over it.
Was it a green flag in that corner or a local yellow? I thought I remember a local yellow, but no one really slows down for those. In hindsight, it should have been a safety car at least until the crane was out of there.
I saw the green flag but I was watching live. They were either following the pace car or the race had just been red flagged. I'm 99% positive they were not racing at the time of accident.
You mean V12, right?
There had been a yellow, but then for some reason they went green again too early.
You can see, they go from yellow to green at about 0:58 in this vid.
Because the way flagging works, that flag applies to the section of track between that flag station and the next one. The incident is under/before the flag station, in the prior section of track. If it's not a full-course caution, then it's perfectly reasonable for that station to go green, as it applies to the next section of track, past the incident. The station before this one would be yellow, because it controls the section of track containing the incident.
In the FIA double waved yellows inform drivers to slow down and be prepared to stop. However to what speed you need to slow down to is not specified. In these conditions, a safety car or a VSC should have been released and a full course yellow implemented due to weather conditions until all recovery vehicles were out of the area and behind the wall. Heck, even a red flag would have been appropriate.
Agreed on all points.
As for JB - that just made me nauseous. So reckless of the marshals, and maybe even Charlie as well.
BTW, Jos getting toasted was back in the Benetton days, when Steve Matchett was with them, IIRC. And, isn't Max V. Jos' son?
Yes, he is.
V10s were the engine.
V-10's were the shit.
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