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It happens all the time. The turn workers see what they think is a "faster" car behind a "slower" car and give the blue flag. When I was racing my Spec Miata, at one race a bunch of Porsches (all 911's) entered our race group, which was unusual. The thing was, they were all driven by yahoos that were way slower than their cars. They would hold the Miatas up terribly in the turns, then blast away down the straights. Of course they never got the blue flag!
Most of the Spec Miatas out-qualified the Porsches by a few seconds, which is an eternity. Before the race all the SM drivers got together to come up with a plan to prevent the Porsches from ruining our race - once the green flag flew, we would all spread out across the track and block the Porsches from passing us on the straight. Once we got to the first turn, it was business as usual, which meant a hammers-and-tong battle all race. We we came up to lap them, the workers never gave the 911's the blue flag, but when we freight trained by them, then we got the blue!
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