Ray wrote:vyselegend wrote:Chekered flag! After more than three hours of waiting and promises, they decided to spoil the race.
What a shamefull end to a great race! I'm gutted, because I feel now the situation was ok for a restart, and with more than 1 hour to go, it would have been a very hard fight between Mc Nish & Montagny...
Just think about the people who broke their pig and traveled thousand miles to watch their race being cut half distance...
I'm not saying they were wrong to call the red flag, because everyone agrees there was no way they could race in those conditions, but two hours later it was possible IMO. Still a dangerous track, but practiceable.
Now Peugeot, Dyson and Risi can't even be proud of their wins...
Um, the area that track is in has been battered with rain for the past two weeks. There were massive puddles all over the track and McNish himself said they needed to throw the full course caution two hours ago when it had just started raining and it hasn't stopped raining since. When Scott Sharp flipped his car in practice the ground was so soft the rollbars dug in far enough that
his helmet touched the grass and it left mud on it. That's plenty enough reason to stop the race. You could wait until tomorrow and the water wouldn't have disappeared. It was the right decision given the circumstances.
Well, I can understand that. I was just gutted because I had waited up to 2 am
(which pissed my wife) for nothing
, and PLM was a race I was dreaming of for months, so it turned out to be a disapointment. Let's say it also, the timming of the storm was really bad: It had been a race under Mc Nish & Capello's domination for hours, but we were having a great return of Montagny & Sarrazin which was promising a terrible fight! I know inside of me it would have been very intense.
That's why I felt something was spoiled, has did probably most of the spectators on the track.
Now all I hope is they consider the possibility of this problem happening again, and start investing in a draining system. I know it is a very difficult place for natural draining, with all the elevation changes, but I bet an artificial draining network could do the job. The only question is: Can they afford it?...