Yellow flags

[speedy king]

We didn't see such a rule in 1998 or any other monsoon races, i thought the flags made for a fake race, motorsport is dangerous, and dangerous conditions is what adds to a drivers skill.

[padster]

It marred my enjoyment a bit. As someone mentioned before, its not really racing. It looked like some drivers were backing off when other cars were going past either out of safety or to get the other penalised.

Ok theres a degree of safety required, but its hardly safe if the ruling is inconsistent.
Slippery condition flags, in my view, would be stating the obvious!

[Allyc85]

I was thinking about this today at work and thogut it was very poor race craft by the drivers. They were obviously told about the yellow flags and so should abide by the rules, this is meant to be the top series in the country, not a feeder series full of young, inexperienced drivers. If there had been a major shunt imagine the fuss, someone could have been in alot of trouble.

*jumps off of high horse*

[Mp3 Astra]

Were the flags out all race - I was standing by the chicane I couldnt see. Maybe they should have been taken in when a dry line started to be produced?

There was no dry line produced at all! It was a river for the entire race. However I do not feel that not having the yellows would have made it more dangerous, maybe some trips into the kitty litter, but nothing more than that I imagine.

[Iain]

The yellows did as much use as those matrix signs on the motorways. Everyone sees them, but ignores them.

[Steelrat]

I thought Alan Gow's response on BTCC.NET pretty well cleared the confusion up..

http://www.btcc.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4720

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[bt52b]

Kept expecting Jordan to get a drive thru'....

Very hard to hard to see the marshals posts on TV. Some thing maybe the TV director should look into. Even Ben and Tim got confused.

[bt52b]

I thought Alan Gow's response on BTCC.NET pretty well cleared the confusion up..

http://www.btcc.net/forum/showthread.php?t=4720

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Plato was bloody lucky. A couple of laps to address his mistake is very generous, couple of corners would be more like it.