The Lemans Series 6 hour event at the Autodromo Do Algarve, Portugal, a night race held on the 1st August is reported to be the first in the 5 year history of the series to run with out a safety car . The race which commenced at 19:15 and ran the full distance of 215 laps finished at 01:15 on Sunday morning.
Initially the race was run with lights and flags but at about 20:15 the marshals were instructed to use only the Inis Wireless Lights System to signal drivers. The marshals proceeded to use over 10,000 flag signals during the 6 hours to manage the race. Driver feedback was positive with comments like that from Allan Simonsen, Hankook Ferrari GT No 89 who said “I only have good things to say about the lighting of the track for me its a job well done” and “and the indicator lights are very effective” from Pierre Ragues.
Analysis which is for the first time available for an FIA race showed that there were over 10,000 blue flags given throughout the race which also had 65 waved yellow and 1 static yellow through out the 6 hour race.
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