With all this talk of black flags... (Page 2 of 3)

BUSTED.  lol.

I'm not busted - I never deny that I'm a little rough on the track. 

http://schumachertaxiservice.com/vids/c … blaze3.wmv

White helmet/clear visor is all me.

Hell - I even go around and sign my work when I can find it (bumper/taillight): http://ronman.org/pics/Lemons/fall10/img_7943.htm

Still my favorite punk band.  Everytime I see/hear Jerry Brown (currently running for Gov.), I think about the song California Über Alles.  When I got Rock Band, the first songs I bought were the Dead Kennedys and then proceeded to scare the hell out of my wife as I sung them at full volume.

damn right.

Rowan Radio 89.7 WGLS FTW.

I agree 100%.  I did see the OLPDF Civic go 4-off to avoid a wreck this past weekend and didn't get a BF for it.  I was glad to see they didn't because those guys aren't a bunch of wreckless tards.

The Lemons Supreme Court operates much like the court system in Kafka's The Trial. Once your car number goes into the system, you're paying the price.

If you went four off to avoid some nimrod spinning out and the corner workers see the situation develop and they decide that you weren't being a nimrod yourself by putting yourself too close to an all-idiot 11-abreast situation, you won't get the dreaded flag. Likewise, sometimes the guys in the tower will compare notes and let us know that the car coming in was an innocent victim, in which case we'll wave that car through the Penalty Box.

If we get two cars in the Box for contact and the driver of Car A admits it was all his/her fault, we'll usually let Car B go right away... and we'll also take it easy on Car A's driver for being refreshingly honest. This does happen, maybe three or four times per race. What also happens— sometimes— is that the driver of Car A will, later on, track down the Car B driver he/she hit to apologize, and then both drivers will show up to let us know. In this case, we'll remove the penalty from Car B's Permanent Record.

Usually, we don't remember. However, we do remember you.

That would be 7 races for me with no black flags.   I guess that means I'm either really careful, really lucky, or really over due!

I had a couple of situations where I needed to go 2 or 4 off last weekend.  I drove both of the morning shifts and on Saturday I lost count of how many cars spun in front of me close enough that I had to take evasive action.

The only event I got flagged for is the one I deserved: drag racing the alpha down the front straight in the rain and then using a large puddle as my braking zone.

I seem to get flags once every other race or so.  I actually don't know what they look like because when I screw up and know it's my fault I just go straight in.

But the penalty box operates like Wall Street: "It wasn't my fault... If it was I had no choice... It was unforseeable/unavoidable... it was actually a brilliant move and I'm insulted that you don't recognize my heroism", etc. etc.

The Wheel of Misfortune, paradoxically, operates by random chance, which is sort of democratic in a way, but Kafka? How about Machiavelli?

I like seeing videos from the faster cars. It's like this WHOLE alternate universe.

No, I think the story was more like this; Driver saw a sping 200 ft in front of him on inside of turn one.  He slowed as the spinning car backed up across track towards outside.  Instead of cutting off people on the inside he came to a complete stop WHILE REMAINING ON TRACK.  No contact, no wheel off, no aggressive driving to create the situation.  Still black flag.

I believe there wan an incident at Stafford where one of our drivers came to a complete stop to avoid T-boning someone and ended up getting punted.

So I guess we need to stop slowing down for accidents in front of us.

There is only one black flag that I received that has me miffed.  Drivers meeting @ Gingerman, safety vehicles will give you wave by.  Under green I come up on a train of cars 5-6 long, no white flag displayed, but there is a Suburban cruising along at 40 mph, no one was passing.  It was driving WAY off line, eventually it slowed more, SAFETY VEHICLE DROPPED TWO WHEELS AND HIT THE BRAKES TO 10 MPH, so the train passed.  Ended up 5 laps latter I got a black flag, asked for what? "passing under yellow", I was like screw it, can't talk my way out of it so I did the paddock parade and continued on my merry way.  After my stint I asked another driver that got the same penalty, it wasn't until then I realized what the flag was about.  The next day I come up on a tow truck and there are two workers in the rearward facing seats, they are doing 45 ish and I start waving at them to give me a point by, they just give me a dumb look, I got passed by 15 cars while I'm just pacing behind the tow truck waiting for a point by.

I'm not complaining, because I'm sure we've caughten breaks too......