Did nobody else notice???

[ecain63]

At the end of the race, did anyone else notice the upside down German flag beside the Jap and other German flag? I spotted it straight away and was expecting to see a topic on here. A tad embarrassing for the organisers i thought: An upside down national flag is normally a signal given by a merchant vessel in distress or is sunken.

Edited by ecain63 on Friday 28th June 18:32

[indyxe]

I didn't take much notice, bit funny as its normally the union jack that gets put up the wrong way.

[ecain63]

Yeah, at least we have an excuse in having a flag that looks like it might be ok whichever way it goes up. I bet the crauts at the event were fuming!

[KP]

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

[Olivier1974]

If I'm not mistaking, it was a tribute to Allan Simonsen.

[richardgcs]

indyxe said:

I didn't take much notice, bit funny as its normally the union jack that gets put up the wrong way.

Being a bit pedantic,its the Union Flag NOT Union Jack

[ecain63]

KP said:

http://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&a...

Sorry, missed that really obvious reference. lol

[indyxe]

richardgcs said:

Being a bit pedantic,its the Union Flag NOT Union Jack

It can actually be called anything from Union Flag, British Flag, Royal Union Flag, Union Jack. all are correct, the term Union Jack has been around for more than 300 years.

So it CAN be referred as a Union Jack.

[OvalOwl]

ecain63 said:

At the end of the race, did anyone else notice the upside down German flag beside the Jap and other German flag? I spotted it straight away and was expecting to see a topic on here. A tad embarrassing for the organisers i thought: An upside down national flag is normally a signal given by a merchant vessel in distress or is sunken.

I'd like to think it was done deliberately as a signal of distress at the death of AS. The Russian flag was also flown upside down for the (then) third placed G-Drive Oreca in LMP2.

[Rick Cutler]

The Union Jack can only be flown on a military vessel or her majesty's residence. If you or I fly it, it is called the union flag. See Wikipedia....

http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_the_United_...

[KP]

ecain63 said:

Sorry, missed that really obvious reference. lol

Ha! You asked the question, there's the answer! Think quite a few peeps noticed the flag but for me it was all about Aston and the Danish flag.

KP

[OvalOwl]

Rick Cutler said:

The Union Jack can only be flown on a military vessel or her majesty's residence. If you or I fly it, it is called the union flag.

Nearly right. It's a Union Jack when flown from the jackstaff at the pointy end of a ship. The only vessels allowed to do so are government owned ones.

[indyxe]

I think if you asked what it was called the vast majority would say jack, we all know what it is regardless which individual chooses to call it, and I don't think anyone should be shot down wether they call it Union Flag or Union Jack.

[McSam]

OvalOwl said:

I'd like to think it was done deliberately as a signal of distress at the death of AS. The Russian flag was also flown upside down for the (then) third placed G-Drive Oreca in LMP2.

Well, I instinctively thought this too, but then both the first and third P1 cars are Joest entries, so why only one flag inverted? If the team had requested it, I'm sure it would be for all their cars.

I had also thought the ACO might have decided to invert the flag of the winner, but then realised if they were doing that, odds are they would fly everyone's upside down - like the no champagne decision - and they didn't.

Leads me to think it's a genuine mistake!

[burriana]

One of my pet hates and, to see our Union flag presented upside down in the opening flag ceremony was pretty effing shoddy to say the least.

We'll fly the French tricolor the wrong way round at Silverstone and see how they like it.