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"Memo Gidley and Matteo Malucelli have been admitted to Halifax Medical Center for observation. They are awake and alert. No further update."

 

Hear, hear, but for me Fox wasn't the only problem. I got more out of reading updates and occasionally checking the live timing.

 

I agree, completely. I read they won't be geoblocking so maybe this is partly a misguided attempt to increase exposure to a worldwide audience.

 

Those were not the only instances of poor calls and officiating, though they may rank at the top of the list due to the way the officials' compounded errors doubled down against a twice blameless driver and car.

If I correctly understood that particular penalty call, what the article fails to make fully clear is the penalty (stop-and-hold plus 80-second) was assessed because the second incident of 'unavoidable contact' made it a repeat offense. The officials thought both of those contact incidents against the #49 were caused by the #22 car when in reality the #22 was involved in neither of them. They made an incorrect blame call once, then later made an almost identical incorrect blame call, again against the wrong car, for a separate incident. Then, apparently without reviewing anything to make sure they had their facts straight before assessing such a severe penalty, penalized one car for incidents actually caused by two others!

I understand Elkins' point that it's virtually impossible to reverse the penalty in practical terms during the race. Can't physically transport the penalized car up the road a couple minutes to put it back where you think it might be if it hadn't been on pit road serving an undeserved penalty. But unless they tried to do something that messed up the race(s) of others in the process it wouldn't be a case of adding a second wrong to the first. Maybe they could have given the lap they lost back to them during one of the subsequent full course yellows? I don't know, just seems like they could have done something.

Bare minimum, seems to me like a sign they need a significant change in how those penalty decisions are made.

 

WEC Boss Neveu: “IMSA is Working Very Hard to Provide a Good Series†(sportscar365.com)