"Troops with bands were drawn up under red flags near the side entrance, in the former imperial waiting-rooms".
Indeed, it was the Italian Lella Lombardi who was the last woman to compete in an actual race, back at the Austrian GP in 1976, and she remains the only one to have scored world championship points – half of one – at the Spanish GP, which ended prematurely under red flags in 1975.
Approximately 10 minutes after Senna's crash, the Larrousse team mistakenly allowed one of their drivers, Érik Comas, to leave the pits despite the circuit being closed under red flags.
Crews remained on full alert in Southern California, however, as high temperatures, strong winds and low humidity kept the San Gabriel Mountains under red-flag conditions for much of last week.
I grew up under the red flag.
At the gate, a handful of men sit guard with shotguns and machetes under a red flag painted with defiant words: "Justice, Liberty, Land".
At the Singapore Grand Prix two weeks ago, Pic, whose team is 10th in the standings, was penalized for passing another car under a red flag when a practice session had been stopped because of an accident.
With dry hot winds putting a large area of east Texas under a red flag fire warning even as the cleanup continues in dozens of communities already swept by flames, I thought it worth getting some insights from John McAneney, the director of Risk Frontiers, a natural hazards research center at Macquarie University in Australia.
At the time, just after a group of about 30 riders passed under the red flag that marks the final kilometer of the race course, other riders had moved in front of him on the right side, Kirchen said, causing him to have to slow down.
