|
Post by dagman16 on Jun 20, 2006 12:52:44 GMT
Hi Lisa.
According to the Formula Renault website (which had a full report on last night!), what caused that accident was two cars slowing to go into the pits and the following car not seeing them in the spray till too late.
I can't verify that as I was at Clark's!
Hope you've dried out by now?!
Incidentally, there was a bit of delay before that race as the drivers were undecided on which tyres to use as the track was half dry.... till the race started!
David
|
|
|
Post by marshalette on Jun 20, 2006 14:07:05 GMT
According to the Formula Renault website (which had a full report on last night!), what caused that accident was two cars slowing to go into the pits and the following car not seeing them in the spray till too late. Yeah, that sounds about right David! At some points during the day we couldn't actually see any cars at all!! One overtook another under waved yellows, but on our side of the track (in the pitlane) we couldn't make out which cars were involved and Garry (on the inside of the track) had to shout the numbers over to us! Why do we do it, eh???
|
|
|
Post by commentary on Jun 20, 2006 21:42:42 GMT
Interesting comment about passing under yellow flags. I saw that too from the pitlane. Also took them ages to stop when the reds came out. Seems to happen every year with F Renault. We've had two years where there were pile ups in the queue behind the safety car. But to be fair, this time visibility was zero and with the benefit of hindsight the race should have been stopped a couple of laps before the red flags as the track was awash and the cars just aquaplaning everywhere. Noticed some unkind words aimed at Knockhill from James Sutton on the RenaultSport site, but it was hardly Knockhill's fault. It rains at Silverstone as well!
|
|
|
Post by Mike Hogg on Jun 21, 2006 0:12:27 GMT
Interesting comment about passing under yellow flags. I saw that too from the pitlane. Also took them ages to stop when the reds came out. Seems to happen every year with F Renault. We've had two years where there were pile ups in the queue behind the safety car. But to be fair, this time visibility was zero and with the benefit of hindsight the race should have been stopped a couple of laps before the red flags as the track was awash and the cars just aquaplaning everywhere. Noticed some unkind words aimed at Knockhill from James Sutton on the RenaultSport site, but it was hardly Knockhill's fault. It rains at Silverstone as well! Nothing gets my goat more than uninformed visitors from down South having a go at Knockhill because "it's Scotland, it always rains, blah blah." That was the first fully wet day this season and it'll probably be the only one. From what I see of televised races it rains more at Brands than it does here.
|
|
|
Post by marshalette on Jun 21, 2006 12:01:01 GMT
Mike, You're not the only one fed up of having visitors complaining about the 'hill!! One team guy apparently complained about something to do with the running of the meeting and was very sheepish after being told by one of the grid team that it was organised by the BARC and not the SMRC I had an FRenault team member try to follow me onto the start/finish straight after the second incident - I closed the gate behind me and told him to stay put, at which he told me to 'get the red flags out'. A glance up at the gantry would have shown him that they were already waving. He then claimed he had to 'go to his car' (the upside down one) and I said he couldn't because he wasn't a marshal (wonder if he would have been quite so argumentative if I'd been male??). I think that shut him up, but he wasn't the only one who had to be asked politely to get back behind the pit wall. I understand they want to make sure their drivers (and cars) are ok, but can't they leave us (the ones who AREN'T getting paid to be there) to sort it?? Too many cooks, and all that. No point in having more people out on track, especially if they're wearing dark clothes and aren't as easily seen as us, and if the drivers still in the race don't seem to want to slow right down... You'd think we'd never had a crash at Knockhill before they arrived! Right, that's my rant over
|
|
|
Post by Mike Hogg on Jun 21, 2006 12:48:09 GMT
Proof if it were needed that Clubman motorsport beats the pro game any day.
|
|