kilbil
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RE: Senior race L3 waved yellow flags
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28-06-2018, 02:53 PM |
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roger9650
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RE: Senior race L3 waved yellow flags
(28-06-2018, 04:24 PM)eman1948 Wrote: It still comes back to the fact that some riders are not respecting the yellow flags, the safety of others and gaining an unfair advantage. They need to be severely penalised far worse than pit lane speeding but probably nothing is going to be done about until there is utter carnage.
This has been a problem for some years and leads to the overuse of red flags. In the (good) old days red flags at the TT and UGP were virtually unknown. Yes, bikes were slower then but tyres and brakes were also poor by modern standards.
Waved yellows should mean slow right down until you have clearly passed the incident. The riders know there's no sanction which is probably why they do it?
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29-06-2018, 07:51 PM |
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Alfie Noakes
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RE: Senior race L3 waved yellow flags
@Roger9650 you may have a point there, back when the days were different red flags were a very rare thing if at all but at the same time we knew that waved yellows were very very serious and acted upon, the 1992 MGP Junior race was real and sad carnage, John Judge RIP hit the wall at Rhencullen, the bike's engine was sat by itself on the crest as I came through along with a load of bomb-like debris and it was waved yellows right back towards Douglas Corner for IIRC 2 laps while they sorted it out, Craig Mason RIP got tangled up with "Cudders" Cudworth on the narrow run through to Alpine, both bikes pinballing down the hedges and roadside while destroying themselves again waved yellows from Bishopscourt, a crash at Glentramman set the bushes on fire and a mate threw it down the road at the 33rd when his bike seized, it was a little subdued in places in the paddock when we finished but nothing seemed to stop the racing in those days - don't think it was the best way of doing things but as a rider we had no choice in the matter, maybe some riders think these days that only a red flag means it's serious ?, if that's the case then they need educating.
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30-06-2018, 11:06 AM |
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