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Originally Posted by telboy
Once again, excellent report jimbo.
BUT (time to open a can of worms!), regarding the second leg. Surely if Ellis didn't trigger the loop at the end and crashed off the track and didn't rejoin (through his own decision), surely that is classed as a DNF?
Yes he crossed the line, but he was OFF THE TRACK? Therefor not ON the track thus not actually crossing the line on the track? So technically Ellis didn't finish?
How does that work then? Because normally people (lesser drivers) get penalties for going outside the track markers?
I got the first penaly of the year a nats, because in my final someone rudely punted me over a track marker whilst I was running in 3rd on the 1st lap. The marshal didn't place my car back where I crashed from, so I kindly waited for the WHOLE field to go by before rejoining in last place....only to hear that I got a 10sec penalty for track cutting. And that WASN'T my fault.
As far as I can see from the slo'mo' on the oople vid, Ellis just grip rolled on his own due to carrying too much speed. He didn't clip Lee, yet he is allowed to retain his position?..even though he didn't actually finish the race?.....not to mention, he could have hurt the marshal in the process!
I've lit the blue paper, and I'm now standing back!  |
assuming you were at drivers briefing you would have heard paul worsley tell all "that providing your PT gives you a start time we will calculate a finish time providing the officials are satisfied that your car was circulating at the end of the race"
in this case Ellis had his finish time calculated because i was satisfied his car was circulating at the end of the race, paul calculates the time using a standard formula and this formula was used earlier when nathan ralls had a similar incident in qualifying, it was also used several times at kidderminster and previous nationals. ellis was treated in exactly the same way as any other driver. to suggest that i or the other officials treat you differently due to your believed status is a little disappointing.