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Originally Posted by Tgionet
The marshal waving the green flag was 100% in the right. That was the first marshal's post after the incident and indicated the end of the waved double yellow area.
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I kind of thought that might be the case, but wouldn't it have been a single yellow flag for a local? Double yellow is usually full course yellow and you need to slow down and be prepared to stop. The fact that (at least at the accident site) the flag stand was a tower and it was pouring the rain, those stands with all the spray were probably almost invisible......maybe the terrain and elevation changes at Suzuka make them more visible and that's why they are elevated as high as the one at the site is.
Just re-watched the video and there were indeed double yellow flags displayed at the flag stand where the incident happened. However, they pulled the double yellows and went back to green before the crane was behind the barriers. It had backed up and was before the flag stand when they waved the green, but not clear of the track. I guess the next question would be is did the 2 preceding flag stands also pull the double yellows at the same time #12 did? If F1 pulled the double yellows at all the preceding stands, I'd say the blame is going to be on them for going green when there was a (10,000lb.?) hunk of metal at the edge of the track and not clear.