I completely respectfully disagree.
The spirit of the rules that I was referring to
is that they were clearly written to roll back
time to reflect the racing order such that it
was not manipulated by whatever incident caused
the red flag. The two lap thing seemed to me to
be an arbitrary allowance that implied that the
act of stopping the race would take ~2 laps.
Rules are created to serve spirit. Sometimes
they fail but this is their raison d'jtre.
Matthew
> From: "Carl Merritt" <CMerritt@luminous.com>
> Date: Mon, 7 Apr 2003 11:27:30 -0700
> To: "Matthew Rehrer" <mrehrer@rehrer.com>, <ba-autox@autox.team.net>
> Subject: RE: Brazillian F1... what the heck was that?
>
> That ruling hurt some drivers and helped others, that's just the way it goes,
> it's not a question of spirit or not.
>
> -Carl
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Matthew Rehrer [mailto:mrehrer@rehrer.com]
>> Sent: Monday, April 07, 2003 10:42 AM
>> To: ba-autox@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: Brazillian F1... what the heck was that?
>>
>>
>> Out of respect for those who have not seen it yet all I will
>> say is that I hate it when the letter of the rules is followed
>> to the detriment of the spirit of the rules...
>>
>> Matthew
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