Legally Speaking..... (Would Stewards Be Liable?)
For the 3rd time in the last couple years, race control decided in the interest of "fairness" to forego going full-course yellow and leave a stalled car right out on the track (this time on a straight where cars actively draft and pass). Just like with the Marcus Ericsson incident cars were flying by at full-speed. Once again race control is playing with fire and potentially catastrophic results.
For those that know more about legality. If a car did crash into Rossi at 170 MPH (the results would be ugly), could race control and/or the series be held liable in a civil suit? I'd assume no in a criminal suit?
Reason I ask is because if you follow motor racing in general, we all know the general precedent and how other series do it. They go full course yellow. We know how this series used to do it, we used to go full course yellow. We know what race control is supposed to do when there is a car stalled out on the track. Only recently have they decided to get creative and start playing god when they determine whether to throw a yellow or not.
Personally I think they and/or the series would be liable because they are not following the rules and/or their own procedure. They are also breaking past precedent set by both their own series and other series.
Hopefully race control comes to their senses because if we keep having these incidents sooner or later something catastrophic is going to happen as a result of the negligence.