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@oletros
We know there was a yellow flag-situation in the corner, thus, there must be a follow-up flag at the first post after the corner.

@mnmracer

Yellow should be followed by a Green. Yellow and Red (I assume you’re meaning the Slippery Surface/Debris Flag) does not need the next flag point to display a certain colour and if there’s a Red Flag out on circuit, all points should be Red.

I really don’t know how to explain this more than I already have.

The situation we have here is a Yellow Light on drivers right, and a debatable flag on drivers left. If it is a Green Flag being displayed on the drivers left then the pass is legal, no questions asked, there’s always going to be a delay in the timing and reactions of the lights. If, for some reason (A reason that is unknown to me) the sector needs to be under Yellow Flag Conditions, then the whole “Floppy Markers” situation comes into it, which is what I explained earlier. (I can draw a diagram if it’ll help some people wrap their minds around it.) Either way, the pass, down to where it happened on the circuit and ignoring what flags people think they see, is legal.

Now, people can argue about what flag was waved, and what the .gif did or didn’t show till the cows come home, it doesn’t really change the facts of this so called “Incident”.

@prisoner-monkeys It seems that even if Alonso would say that there was a green flag you still won’t be convinced

Vettel overtook after the yellows and between the green signals. There is no case to answer here and the FIA will undoubtedly through this appeal out.

I’m not 100% sure where the incident is in relation to the Flag Point in question, however, unless it is *directly* opposite the Flag Point, then no matter how close the incident is, or no matter how far away it is from the Flag Point, if it is before the Flag point, then they go Green, after the Flag Point, then they go Yellow.

The Flags are put out by the Marshals themselves, we aren’t told what flags to put out 99% of the time, we just put them out. If they (Race Control) want a different flag to be displayed then we do so, but that is hardly ever done. (They tend to only ask for a Flag from the preceding point as a sort of “Back-Up” to the next point.)

The Maldonado crash video is interesting. Continue watching after the crash. In the last 30 seconds of the video, we can see cars going past with Vettel lining up behind Vergne, i.e. moments before the alleged yellow-flag pass. After Karthikeyan passes through, the camera pans to the right, and we can see the marshal’s post. I think I can see a green flag being waved there, but it is hard to make out as the advertising board on the marshal’s post is green, too. However, it seems almost certain that no yellow flag is being waved. Check the video:

To follow up, I’ve found this track map which shows a Flag Point I was previously unaware of and makes things a whole lot clearer.

The lights were on at the Flag Point on the Drivers right, as the should have been with the Maldonado’s car and the rescue vehicles coming to clear the wreckage etc. This Flag Point was under Yellow Flag Conditions, these conditions continued up until the next Flag Point, the one on the Drivers left next to the Pit Lane Exit, which was Green, signalling racing to resume. The lights down towards the end of the straight was the next set of available lights that were able to show Green.