Quote Originally Posted by Fast Eddie WRC View Post
Maybe in panic the marshal was waving the red flag as a warning, not to stop the stage ?
I thought it might be that. And (I think) JML did slow down, and later Sordo complained about getting no warning that Lappi was in the road. If so, it wasn't ideal but it wasn't completely foolish either. And it's not the end of the world -- only JML was affected, and they can give him a notional time.

[It's very important that they do give him a notional time, because otherwise drivers will have a reason to ignore manual red flags in future.]