I can appreciate that organising events takes a lot of time and effort but if you are going to have rules then surely they must be applied consistently to everyone. The driver punished didnt cause anyone else to lose time in any way. yet in other finals marshalling caused all sorts of issues. As for the referee, he had spent the previous race ranting and raving when he himself crashed and it seemed like sour grapes that he insisted on a punishment. Listening in to the driver trying to put his version of events across was painful, he kept being told that because race control couldnt see the track they had to accept the referees word and that was final- very democratic, no wonder numbers at these events seem to be dropping!
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