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There are 3 ways of communicating with the drivers.
1) Lights
2) Race control radio
3) Spotters

All seemed to fail....In the audio from the tower two people on radios can be herd....one is the track/safety, and he is actually rolling trucks while the cars that eventually run into trouble on the front stretch are entering turn 3....and you can hear another person say "yellow, yellow, front stretch"....there is no way "all" the drivers missed race control, so, was the radio on the wrong channel, were radio checks done prior to the start of the event, did the race control radio not work (dead battery, unplugged. ect)....

Not going to place blame but, this MUST be fixed, this has to be an eye opener...there are steps to take to prevent this from happening....was the starter in control of the lights?....all types of questions that 1 or 2 guys know the answer to!

You just do not wake up one day and decide you are a race official/director...there is a lot that goes into planning and running a safe event.... there are steps that can be taken to prevent this type of travesty from reoccurring.... You can get in wrong in tech, you can get it wrong on track prep, you can miss on a time schedule, ect.... You can not miss on driver /fan/participant safety....No excuse....It is not balls and strikes...It is somebody's son, dad, brother, husband, wife, daughter, friend!!!

And to quote my Father..."There are no replacement parts in stock"!