The question, looking back, was an obvious one. Why don’t they just red flag it? The IMSA SportsCar Championship field had already been droning around behind the safety car for a couple of hours at last weekend’s Daytona 24 Hours and the fog that caused the caution was showing no signs of lifting. It would be another four hours before we went racing again. As much as the idea, posed by a fellow journalist, that the race should be temporarily halted might be regarded as common sense, it offended my European sentiments.
I’d travelled to America to report on a 24-hour race and that’s what I wanted to see, no matter how much of it took place behind a slow-moving road car with flashing lights on its roof. Or actually two of the same, such was the length of the caution that the course vehicle had to be switched on two occasions as the things used up a tank of fuel.
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