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Don't know who was in the "chair", but two full laps off racing at WGI is a loooong time to decide to throw a FCY for a car wrecked on the line, unable to move, between 1 & 2. It was Ray Blethhen, III. Ray IV was more than moderately pissed off! He said 10 mins from impact to FCY!
I was in the operating steward for today's TreadZone Pro IT race. I can't comment on the overall time line for the incident but I can comment from the Tower perspective. Ray impacted the guardrail and came to rest on the track between Station 1 and Station 2. Station 1 responded with a waving yellow (how vigorous is subject to interpretation) and their yellow light at the beginning of the braking zone. Station 2 called the incident in at 9:26. The WGI flaggers do not appear to have an 'emergency' tag in their protocol so the report came in with the wall contact and a car on course. As soon as it was ascertained that the car was damaged and could not leave on its own, the full course yellow was implemented at 9:27 (both times from the comm log). At the time that the FCY was declared, the lead car was around Station 5; it was picked up by the safety car at the end of the lap. The FCY was up for approximately 2-3 minutes before the safety car picked up the leader.