"The red was shown at corner 15(the walk over bridge). The drivers just did
not pay attention. All drivers were forced to attend a meeting right after the
incident. They were all yelled at."
You can holler at 15 guys who kept racing and ran into the original accident
and you can call it driver error.
And you would be correct, as it was described
But when 15 guys do it, it appears there is a fundamental problem with the
method of "flagging and communications".
Back to 'work'.
> This was posted on the Production site that I linked to earlier..
>
> "I was the operating steward for this race. The pace car did what was the
> right thing to do. We gave them instructions for each group. The two pole
>guys
> admitted to running up the hill at 5000 rpm in 3rd gear. The fifth place guy
> was racing well before the green flag and tryed to force his way between the
> wall and the car in front of him. He started scraping the wall and the guy
> behind him checked up and the car that hit him started to spin and then it
>was
> one after another into them. I am amazed that no one was killed. All the
> drivers except two had hans devices.
>
> The green flag was in deed thrown. I red flagged the race with in 3 seconds
> of the green. Even with the red flag the drivers in the back just keep
> driving into the rear. The red was shown at corner 15(the walk over bridge).
>The
> drivers just did not pay attention. All drivers were forced to attend a
>meeting
> right after the incident. They were all yelled at. Interesting that in a few
> classes they are not allowed to pass until after turn 1 (Historic Gran Prix)
> and turn 3 for Can Am. One historic Gran Prix driver was banned from their
> series for life due to an incident in the kink.
>
> I have to agree that the drivers in this group are some of the most
> agressive drivers I have ever seen. More distrubing to me were how many fist
>fights
> started after drivers started getting out of there cars. I feel that if they
> were able to get out they should have been happy they could even move after a
> incident like this.
>
> I was very happy with how all of our crews came together to work in the
> heat. We had a steady flow of water for all the rescue crews, ambulance crews
>and
> wrecker crews while they were working in over 90 degree heat. What a great
> team.
>
> Mike Engelke"
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