I'm suprised no-one has mentioned this yet. Is it just BSB that has this variant for the red flag rule, that is, all riders that aren't racing are excluded? For sure it seemed to catch everyone out, me, Burnicle, Whitham, the riders and the managers. I can sort of understand the ruling - if you have a count back to the previous lap, but exclude the person at fault, then you get into arguments over whose fault it was. With this rule, there's no argument (assuming everyone knows about it - which they do now). For this incident, it doesn't seem fair, but who said racing was fair? Brookes gets a 2 race ban. Fair or excessive? He obviously didn't mean to take anyone out and just ran in a little hot and caught the wrong bump at the wrong time. So where's the ban for Richards taking out Lowry at Knockhill? Or maybe that doesn't count because it was practice. Or that Richards is injured, so he's banned himself anyway. Brookes seemed apologetic enough when in front of the camera, but didn't seem interested at the time. In fact he ran to his bike to see if he could get going, not up to Andrews to see how he was and aplogise. I'd like to know what Walker said to him though. :)
