...when a car is:
"a hazard beside or partly on the track."
or,
"a hazard wholly or partly blocking the track."
<
https://www.flagmarshal.com/fia-rules/>
"Below is a selection of extracts from Appendix H of the FIA sporting regulations covering flags and the safety car. I have included them in
their exact form with no comment purely as a point of reference for
those of you who are going to flag at an international event.
...
b) Yellow flag: This is a signal of danger and should be shown to
drivers in two ways with the following meanings: rCo Single waved: Reduce
your speed, do not overtake and be prepared to change direction. There
is a hazard beside or partly on the track. rCo Double waved: Reduce your speed, do not overtake and be prepared to change direction or stop.
There is a hazard wholly or partly blocking the track. Yellow flags
should normally be shown only at the marshals-A post immediately
preceding the hazard. In some cases however the Clerk of the Course may
order them to be shown at more than one marshals-A post preceding an
incident. Overtaking is not permitted between the first yellow flag and
the green flag displayed after the incident. Yellow flags should not be
shown in the pit lane unless there is an incident of which the driver
should be made aware."
Do you notice what that paragraph doesn't say?
Not one word about only displaying the flag when ordered to by race control.
For further reference:
<
https://www.fia.com/sites/default/files/appendix_h_2021_published_09_03_2021.pdf>
Paragraph 2.5.5(b) on page 17.
So it could have been an honest error for a marshal to display a yellow
flag for the Gasly puncture and subsequent stop on the main straight
(if, for instance, word had come from race control that they considered
the car to be in a sufficiently safe position and that message was
either not received by the flag marshalrCoassuming he was equipped with communication gear to receive something from race control directly, or
the message was received by the marshalling "captain" (don't know the
official term) for that post and didn't get relayed to the marshal
holding the flag.
It can only be "rogue" if the marshal received the instruction to
withdraw the yellow and refused to do so.
Anyone got any evidence of that, hmmm?
--- SBBSecho 3.06-Win32
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