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I meant 40 years of watching motor racing

Cockrain's thoopercar sideshow set a new low recently, it was a few meets ago I think it might have been Queensland. This was when a modestly sized piece of cotton flag that was lying otherwise inconsequentially on the main straight, for some reason caused the safety car to - in the new vernacular- be 'deployed' late in the race.

In reality this amounted to nothing more than a cheap blatant move to manufacture an 'exciting finish' for TV land, by eliminating the massive lead being enjoyed at the time by that seemingly vaporous young individual and chronic lisper I call 'inclement arsehole' aka frosty who iirc drives for FPR