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The following flags will be standard in PCA Club Racing:

Yellow: Caution. Stationary ‐ hazard ahead, no passing. Waving ‐ Danger, slow down safely, no passing.

Reminds me of Jeremy Dale and Fabrizio Barbazza. I was there and I felt the impact, more than heard it.

Seb, you’re really lucky. Not good, just lucky, on this one...

I'd love to see Road Atlanta put functional flag lights around the track similar to Road America. In this scenario the bridge would have had a blinking yellow as you passed under the bridge. I'm pretty sure everybody would see that as opposed to the flag station that is off to the left. I know I'm one who is very much concerned about getting the line right on that down hill and am focused on that and may miss a yellow that is not waving harder than it was in that clip.

Like you I do like the lights at Road America and other tracks. What I think though is the lights can still be missed just like a flag. A waving yellow flag has always meant you are coming up on an incident or spun car. It means to precede with caution and at a reduced pace. When topping a blind high speed corner like Turn 11/12 at Road Atlanta is means to back out of the throttle so you can reduce your pace. To see the waving flag and think it’s not waving fast enough to worry is a human mistake. And a human mistake is what usually leads to more crashes cars. My take on all this is to not blame the corner workers or the flagging station locations at Road Atlanta instead take Head that a waving yellow means caution and slow down. Keep your eyes as far forward as possible to see where the incident is especially in these blind corners.