Things settled down in the middle part of the race with Gavin running as high as fifth before a late -
race incident with another GTLM competitor moved him back down the order.
Former British Formula 4 driver Billy Monger inspired not only the motorsport community but the world when he publicly documented his recovery from losing his lower legs in
a racing incident in April earlier this year.
Naturally Ocon had a much more muted view of what happened and put it down to
a racing incident, saying:
The very idea of
a racing incident has fallen by the wayside as stewards have tended to look for which driver is «the most guilty», which is not the same thing as a driver who is «completely guilty».
As heartbreaking as the outcome was for Wickens, calling it as
a racing incident was probably the right one.
The final straw seems to have come after coming off worst in
a racing incident with streamer James Hewlett.
In Moto3 it seems things are the same - stewards have decided it was a «
racing incident» and Canet has got away without a penalty...
Stewards decided it was
a racing incident, but Hamilton's assessment on the move in the cooldown room was a little more straightforward:
Unfortunately, the ’70 and ’71 championship winning car was destroyed in
a racing incident.
It was a chain reaction,
a racing incident, and there was nothing that anyone could have done differently.
It was just
a racing incident.
[16] The car is part of Stella's «Polar Coordinates» series, created to commemorate Stella's friend Ronnie Peterson who had died in
a racing incident at Monza in 1978.