A shitty situation at Gingerman

[Super Dave]

Now, we're talkin'!

[Jeff]

Grasshopper, that was JB.  I'll just kick back and see if he comments on it.  It had nothing to do with us getting tossed from that race.

Dave, the entire weekend was awesome.  Probably the most perfect weather I've ever seen at Gingerman, let alone Gingerman in October.  Small turnout, but some REAL good racing just the same.  Seemed to be a relatively safe weekend with Barb Key's car being the only real casualty...

[Super Dave]

...with Barb Key's car being the only real casualty...

Ok, more info...

[EX#996]

Ok, more info...

Middle of the page, post by AM #76

[Plarposaurus Wrecks]

Ok, more info...

Rider crashed and was injured.

Car was borrowed for trip to hospital.

Doctors advised rider not to drive.

Rider drove car through red light.

All involved in red light bit are okay, car ... me not know.

Good thing I grabbed my trophies otherwise I would have never found this out!

[EX#996]

Barb was probably the one passing the trophies out.

[Team_Serpent]

Jeff,
Regarding the number of laps quoted in your original post -
I'm not positive about this but I think since they were 7 lap races half way may have been shown on lap 3 during that race.  As racerhall stated we got the red flag as we came on to the straight working lap 4.  When the race restarted we ran 4 laps to complete the original seven.

Regarding leaving hot pit -
It sucks people got disqualified but the rules are the rules.  They did mention at the riders meeting that they were a little short on staff this weekend so maybe that's why there was no one there to direct riders where to go but I've been in red flag situations before at different orgs/events where there are no officials directing riders to hot pit.  I guess it's kinda like Supersport post tech, no one directs you there, it's just something you always do.  Anyways, like I said - sucks some where disqualified but lesson learned.

By the way - I thought the officials did a good job of handling the situation and the re-grid.

Regarding the fight/argument -
Don't know the details on the fight/argument by the tower but it sure was the buzz around the paddock - really don't like to hear about this kinda thing.

[Plarposaurus Wrecks]

The red flag came out before everyone had completed half-race.

[r1owner]

I think the fight was started by a WERA rider...  Just kidding!

[Jeff]

With it being combined EX/AM and fairly decent size grids considering the weekend (16 experts and probably just as many if not more AM's), we were into lapped traffic, so I don't know where they were counting from.  I'm sure there were people who hadn't completed a 3rd lap.  Either which way though, it doesn't matter...  That's why I didn't argue it.  I was wrong, plain and simple.

And other than nobody being present to start the process of regrid or calling of the race, yes, the re-grid went very smooth.  I've always been impressed with how quickly CCS gets out entire new grid sheets.

[Jeff]

The red flag came out before everyone had completed half-race.

Ummm yeah.  That's why it was restarted.  That was never a question...

[grasshopper]

Ok now more about the fight. What happened?