Originally Posted By: billt460
That's the same video I posted above. The kid looks like he's 7 years old. Garak makes a very good point. Where were the yellow flags? Why was that car seemingly stopped on the track? This accident had nothing to do with a shotgun start.
Thanks to Whitewolf for the link, again. I had come across a couple vids of it already. The point is, you can't have the slightest moment in an F1 car without marshals waving flags and the yellow lights going off on screen and the drivers' wheels. Someone hits the grass, and the graphics are going off. Here, we have something much more hazardous, right on the track, and racing is continuing.
Essentially, from that video, and I admit that a definitive narrative is lacking, and I really wonder why that is lacking, we have a situation where, at the very least, yellow flags should have been being waved, which would forbid overtaking, which is what Monger was doing. This car was stopped or very much slowed down (again, the details released are horribly lacking) just off the racing line, which should have triggered something up to and including a red flag long before Monger got there, as in long enough to slow things down and prevent overtaking.
Racing is risky, yes, but you don't park cars adjacent to the racing line for a very good reason, and if they're there, the racing has to be neutralized until the hazard is gone.
