This was not on the broadcast yesterday, but after Liam Lawson pitted for a new front wing on lap 1, and then rejoined the race track, he met a pair of marshals in the middle of the track in the first chicane.
Once again, race control being inept. "Oh, it as a failure to communicate." Yeah that's all well and dandy until a guy gets sucked into the air intake at 150 miles an hour.
The older ones among us might remember the grisly demise of Tom Pryce at Kyalami, 1977 after being smacked in the helmet with the fire extinguisher carried by the marshal that he had just completely obliterated* at full speed after this one and another marshal had crossed the track BEHIND A BLIND CREST to attend to the smoking car of Pryce's own teammate at Shadow, Renzo Zorzi.
While this is a SLOW corner, that doesn't mean the FIA can't get some dumbo killed in a low-speed collision. If you need to clean up the litter, throw a ******* VSC. You don't have qualms about that on the LAST lap of the race, why would there be an issue throwing one on the FIRST lap of the race??
The standard of marshaling and stewarding has gone all to **** under Liberty Media, and the only reason why it's not even more apparent is that the radio channels between team bosses and the head steward were taken off the broadcast after the entire 2021 season was basically a live podcast of Michael Masi's Coffee Table of the Damned.
Absolute disgrace, as usual.
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*Legend has it that no identifiable remains of the marshal were left over after the incident. They only found out who the killed marshal was by conducting a roll call after the end of the race and he was the only one missing.