Seventeen years later, the dreaded black flag reappeared in the Formula 1and this weekend at the Brazilian Grand Prix event, which was marked by heavy rain and many abandonments.
Nico HulkenbergHaas team driver, was disqualified from the race course after an incident that occurred on the twenty-seventh lap. The German lost control of his car in the rain at the first corner, relegating him to last position. However, after the Virtual Safety Car was activated the stewards helped the German’s car off the circuit. However, the opposite happened.
When everything seemed to indicate that Hulkenberg would retire from the Brazilian GP, the stewards pushed the German Haas to return him to the track, an aid that is strictly prohibited in the regulations of Formula 1 For this action, Hulkenberg received a black flag and was disqualified from the race, something that had not happened since 2007.
At the 2007 Canadian Grand Prix, Felipe Massa and Giancarlo Fisichella were disqualified from the race for leaving the pits at a red light. And to find other black flag precedents you have to go back to between the 80s and mid-2000s, where pilots wanted Nigel Mansell, Michael Schumacher, Alain Prost and Juan Pablo Montoya -on two occasions- they were disqualified.
Source: La Verdad
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