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Re: Blind CoC's
Posted by 'SimonS' on 21 May 2013 @ 16:35

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"why do they have to watch 20 plus karts?"

As the original comment said

" I complained to the CoC he simply said "I will have to look into it as I never saw it."

If the CoC wasn't meant to be watching the novices at the back of the grid, but an observer was, then the answer is absolutely accurate.

Even if the observer is watching the back markers, it's perfectly possible to be watching the behaviour of one and miss the beginning of an incident started by someone else.

And any observer knows that incidents start in both directions. So one driver takes initial action on something happening 5 rows in front of him, which means that the person right behind him, who hasn't seen the developing incident, appears to deliberately ram the other driver.

It's no good the observer saying "Oh, I didn't see the developing incident you claim to have avoided because I was only watching the last three rows."

And sometimes people just don't see an incident at all. A few years ago a marshal stepped out into the track in front of the oncoming pack 10 seconds after the start. The whole of the even-number column was compromised, with something like 10 karts in the tyres as they took avoiding action. The assistant CoC standing 20 yards away just didn't see the marshal, put the incident down to driver error and let the race continue to the finish. It took a two hour investigation and the MSA steward's ruling for the result to be declared void and the heat re-run.

Yet all the mistakes had been made in good faith. The marshal hadn't realised his error, the COC2 hadn't seen it and only opposite pole and no.4 had reacted to the marshal, everyone else was reacting to the kart immediately in front of them.

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Re: Blind CoC's by 'colin' (21 May 2013 @ 13:43)

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Re: Blind CoC's by 'itpro' (21 May 2013 @ 15:43)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'SimonS' << You are here!

Re: Blind CoC's by 'SkintFather' (21 May 2013 @ 16:54)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'Alan' (21 May 2013 @ 17:03)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'SkintFather' (21 May 2013 @ 17:05)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'Alan' (21 May 2013 @ 18:41)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'SkintFather' (21 May 2013 @ 20:36)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'PaulMRotax' (21 May 2013 @ 17:36)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'Venom' (22 May 2013 @ 10:38)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'SkintFather' (21 May 2013 @ 17:03)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'wavedyellow' (21 May 2013 @ 17:16)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'SkintFather' (21 May 2013 @ 17:28)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'Minisueg' (21 May 2013 @ 17:18)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'wavedyellow' (21 May 2013 @ 17:22)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'd-i-y71' (21 May 2013 @ 17:22)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'SkintFather' (21 May 2013 @ 17:24)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'SkintFather' (21 May 2013 @ 18:13)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'fatsam' (21 May 2013 @ 18:37)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'SkintFather' (21 May 2013 @ 20:23)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'MIdget' (21 May 2013 @ 22:06)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'wavedyellow' (22 May 2013 @ 11:01)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'JDsRs' (22 May 2013 @ 14:24)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'd-i-y71' (22 May 2013 @ 14:51)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'SkintFather' (22 May 2013 @ 15:36)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'd-i-y71' (22 May 2013 @ 16:38)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'SimonS' (22 May 2013 @ 20:47)

Re: Blind CoC's by 'Pauldalgarno' (24 May 2013 @ 10:12)

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