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Old 14-06-2010
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first of all big thanks to the EPR crew for looking after me and the rest of the team.

Good standard of driving from the majority and only a couple of incidents to note.

as always i try to see the driver concerned before awarding the penalty and explain why i feel it is required or why i am not going to give one, in one incident there was some contact between Tom C and Lee M, this contact i felt was accidental, but as a result Tom C was pushed into the track barrier nose first, with the train of cars coming tom's only option was to pop over the barrier and wait, which he did and then continue, now technically thats a corner cut and would normally get some form of penalty. however i felt in this case that for him to try and straighten up and rejoin could have caused even more mayhem for the following drivers, he had self penalised himself and rejoined just in front of the third place man, i was content that he had penalised himself sufficiently and had not gained any advantage, so no penalty and i discussed this with Tom at the end of the race.

second incident involved two drivers one ran into the back of the other on a corner ended up in front waited but then decided to go and finish in front, not too difficult a decision for me and both drivers were happy with the end result. which was a 5 second penalty and a change in position.

i have had a request from a driver to try and help out those drivers in the lower positions in a heat with getting through and i am aware that i could do more for those drivers, so at Oz i will be attempting to do just that.

as always i am available during a meeting to discuss any issues you have.

john
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