Black Flags on Track Days

[phatgixer]

Just a light hearted (Please!) post.

Anyone had one and why?

I'll start.

I got one for being faster than a British GT champion at Donington (serious wink mode)

[LeeP-CS]

I was cut up at the weekend by an old 993. He was blackflagged and was sent home.

I had the race line, just about to clip the apex and he came storming on the inside, half on grass and nearly took off my front quater.

FOOOL

[LeeP-CS]

I was cut up at the weekend by an old 993. He was blackflagged and was sent home.

I had the race line, just about to clip the apex and he came storming on the inside, half on grass and nearly took off my front quater.

FOOOL

[LeeP-CS]

I was cut up at the weekend by an old 993. He was blackflagged and was sent home.

I had the race line, just about to clip the apex and he came storming on the inside, half on grass and nearly took off my front quater.

FOOOL

[v15ben]

Must have been a bad one Lee You told us 3 times! Lol

[m-five]

For throwing my helmet at the driver who had just crashed into me and broken my ankle.

I would have come off the next lap anyway FFS as my ankle was throbbing and the motor was not steering straight!

[LeeP-CS]

v15ben said:

Must have been a bad one Lee You told us 3 times! Lol

Wasnt posting properly!

[2 Smokin Barrels]

We entered an endurance Go Kart Challenge. We couldn't understand why we got more black flags than the rest put together....until we discovered how the marshalls were betting!

[2 Smokin Barrels]

Didn't Nigel Mansell get a black flag for incorrect use of wet weather moustache?

[jeremyc]

The infamous "Noise Nazi" at the 2003 PH Folembray track day.


Never before had any limits been known to be enforced at the circuit, until this fateful day. Even then, nobody is really sure exactly what ridiculously low limit he was measuring to as he prowled the pit lane with his noise meter trying to catch participants out by measuring drive-by levels at different points (nor are we sure to this day upon the calibration of his meter).

And the punchline is that he didn't have a black flag, so resorted to waving a red flag, thus causing maximum confusion!

Happier memories of the day here courtesy of Pikey.

[big.bad.wolfie]

I got black flagged whilst at a corporate karting event.....I kept clipping the apex kerbs, the trouble was those little wheels and big kerbs meant a burst tyre. Boy did the organisers not like that.

[Martin Hayter]

Got one for a flappy bonnet catch (mainly cosmetic - absolutely no chance of it coming open given the three other clips and the fact that it opens forwards). Good spot by the marshals though.

[55jnj]

Friend of mine was black flagged at Oulton in a Skyline. Apparently he had been seen with a tell-tale bluish mist. Seems it wasn't a leak as such but he had overfilled the oil & a tiny amount was leeching out on the track. Very silly & a lesson learned that day for many. But thank goodness the marshals had been so vigilant. Full marks to them.

[dannylt]

Rear carbon venturi on the SR3 had broken free from all it's rivets, was hanging down and leaving streaks around the track - had no idea!

Also drive-by noise.

[thub]

Twice now, both at Bruntingthorpe.

The first after I outbraked myself and went through some cones - called in to check everything was okay.

The second (on another day) when a marshall spotted somthing flapping after a trip onto the grass.

Thank you for your vigilance guys.

[sdd]

Once for noise and once for not having long sleeves on!!!!

[HiRich]

Many years ago on Silverstone GP. The drivers' briefing earnestly explained that if you collected gravel, you were going home. Also, it was very damp, so please be very careful for the first session.

First session, second lap, and the red flag comes out. Everyone's looking down the pitlane to work out who it is. Car comes back, and it's, err, Derek Bell (doing demo rides for Harrier, IIRC).

OK. New rule. Everyone EXCEPT Derek Bell, don't stick it in the gravel.

Later in the day, a young kid nearly stuffed the back of his McLaren F1 into the pitwall approaching Copse. Everyone came out to applaud...

[phatgixer]

HiRich said:

Later in the day, a young kid nearly stuffed the back of his McLaren F1 into the pitwall approaching Copse. Everyone came out to applaud...

APPROACHING Copse? Cripes, you did have it out of shape!!!

Come on you lot. Surely I'm not the only bad egg "who could spoil it for all the boys, etc etc etc etc Vom."

[2 Smokin Barrels]

Also at Silverstone, on the pit straight.

[deeen]

Once for "aggressive driving", = too much sideways, apparantly. The organiser did have the grace to add that he'd noticed I only "did it" when there was no-one else near me, but if I "could just calm down a little bit the marshals would be much happier, thank you, sir"