skandalen fortsätter....
från Autosports interju med Barry Green. SOLKLART BEVIS lades fram av Team Green. (se nedan) Att Tony George själv tog hand om beslutet och inte lämnade det till en oberoende expertjury ser man nu. Denna hade knappast gett segern till Helio.
George yrar nu om att race posititionerna "fryses" när beslutet om gult tas, och inte när det visas på banan ?????
Det här kan bli början till slutet för IRL när man velar till det så här. Kanske Team Green går vidare till "civil" domstol, då kan det bli riktigt pinsamt....
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How did you verify when the yellow track light came on?
"We did it two ways – first through video frame count with a standard time code. We synchronized the time codes between the blimp and the Turn Three camera. The blimp was almost a straight-down shot, so you eliminated a lot of the angles. To back all that up, we started with Helio's car and those two cameras and zeroed them, ran them through, zeroed them and ran them back again. We did the same with Paul's. We got the exact same answer from the six different ways. We also zeroed it at the start-finish, so we eliminated any possible question. We know the exact position of these race cars when the light came on – exact."
At any point, did you see hard empirical evidence from the IRL to support their contention that Helio Castroneves won?
"No. I'm not sure how to read into what I heard this morning. But forgetting this morning, the only thing out there that cannot be independently verified is Penske's Pi data. And the man who started Pi has said that this system is not a device to determine races. It is built for us. It is too user-friendly and it cannot be independently verified. The only evidence you can say Penske produced is they say where their yellow light came on and where he lifted off (at the entry to Turn Three). We are saying that mathematically that is wrong. If you watch the video, you can see that he does not stop racing until he is out of Turn Three."
Since Tony's decision said the original issue couldn't be protested, do you feel like you spent a lot of money and time on something you couldn't win?
"I had to do the right thing. This is not my style, but on behalf of all my guys and their families I had to at least argue my point. The more I looked into it, the clearer the picture was. I'm very disappointed and exactly what we do from here I don't know. I still have to go through a lot of that stuff and talk to my attorneys and advisors. But I do know that we presented an excellent argument and I still feel we won. I have to feel sorry for Mr. Penske, really, because I think this race is not going to sit well with him. It cannot after what he saw what we had."
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