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Originally Posted by Clarke
They black flagged the race twice because the rain was so heavy.  The last few hours were dry which was nice. It allowed us to put some distance on the rest of the class.  |
They black flagged the race twice, but it was because of lightning reported in the area. The idea being to protect the workers. I can tell you that race control opens up a nice dialog with "sound" when things get hairy. I have not heard this dialog before at the Porsche Club Race...it is probably on a different net...but at SCCA events, "sound" is on the same net as F&C. "Sound" is normally engaged in detecting cars that exceed the noise limits, but he also has some extra stuff (hardware and software, I assume) that permits him to report distances to lightning strikes. When the strikes get within a certain distance, the race is black flagged. I'm not sure what the distances are, but I think it is somewhere in the 2 to 3 mile range.