-------- Original Message -------- Being a flagger, I'm attuned to the flaggers on the track when I'm driving. I've gotten the advantage in one way or another quite a few times by noticing a flagger reaching for a flag. Saved me from some real idiots when they threw one during our Driver's School. -------- Original Message --------
That last sentence should read "when they threw a red flag during our Driver's School".
In amateur racing, a red flag is the highest emergency situation that the flags can communicate. It basically means you must stop your car as quickly as is safe and wait for further orders from the track marshals. Drivers tend to act really stupid when the red flag comes out, for some reason. Like, they overreact and focus on the quick part to the exclusion of the safe part, and simply jam on their brakes as hard as they can, right then, regardless of what's around them.
It's one of the few times that on track behavior commonly approaches being as bad as peoples' behavior driving on the streets.
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