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Oh, man, the humanity!
 
Errr.
Where were the yellow flags after the first shunt?
 
Baz, I am with you. Where does the responsibility lie to stop things? It obviously had been raining for some time. Team owners, managers, race officials, track officials, heck why not the drivers? I do not understand the competitive mindset of this level of racing so perhaps I am niave but still.....when you can barely see past the windshield, it's time to pull it over or into the pits....imho
 
Silverghost said:
Baz, I am with you. Where does the responsibility lie to stop things? It obviously had been raining for some time. Team owners, managers, race officials, track officials, heck why not the drivers? I do not understand the competitive mindset of this level of racing so perhaps I am niave but still.....when you can barely see past the windshield, it's time to pull it over or into the pits....imho
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That's a pretty old clip. If I remember correctly, it had been raining lightly for a few minutes, then that thunderstorm blew in and flooded parts of the track very rapidly. Most cars were still on dry tires when the storm hit.

-Wm.
 
William's recollection is mine, too.
I'd remind you all that Oulton Park is in England, and if you stopped racing just cuz it rained, you'd stop a lot of racing! So you're always vulnerable to a sudden downpour like that.
The good thing is that accidents in the wet are usually at reduced speed, and often nobody is hurt - just a lot of fibreglass!
 
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