racing flags meaning

Meaning of Racing Flags

When there is a need to infirm racers about conditions on the track and to convey messages to them, starters, grand marshal and track marshals of race apply racing flags. These flags are used in car racing and similar motorsports. There is no universal ready of race flags far all motorsports only some series have standardized sets of flags with strictly defined meanings. Almost widely used set of flags outside of the North America are FIA-sanctioned championship flags and they are used in Formula 1, the FIA World Endurance Championship and WTCC championships. Some of them are used in NASCAR and IndyCar and they can but not have to have the same meaning:

Light-green flag: Offset, cease of hazard, or restart of the race. It can also be on the entrance to the pits to indicate that the pits are open and indicate the cease of a local yellow-flag zone.
Yellow flag: Local caution or total-grade circumspection. It requires of drivers to deadening down due to a hazard on the track. Unmarried waved flag signals a adventure that is located only on the racing surface itself while 2 flags waved simultaneously mean a hazard that wholly or partly blocks the track.

Racing Flag - Chequered Flag

Flag with yellowish and cerise vertical stripes: Debris/oil/slippery course. If information technology stands however it signals dangerous substance on the rails merely if information technology is rocked back and forth, but without waving, information technology signals small anima on the rails.
Red flag with yellowish diagonal cantankerous: Pit lane closed (Only in NASCAR and IndyCar). The cars are directed to go on to pit road, or to end at a specific spot. Sometimes repair work in the pits or garage area is forbidden under the reddish flag.
White flag: Slow vehicle on track (FIA) or Final lap (NASCAR)
White flag with red cross: Terminal lap (FOA) or Ambulance on class (IndyCar)
Blackness flag: disqualification or penalty. Summons a driver to the pits for disobeying the rules or when a motorcar is suffering a dangerous mechanical failure.
Black flag with orange circle: dangerous mechanical trouble on a sure auto and car must return to its pit (FIA only)
Flag divided diagonally -upper left part black/lower right role white: Unsportsmanlike conducts (FIA just) such are intentionally driving some other auto off the grade or initiating of an altercation with another driver.
Black flag with white diagonal cross: Driver is no longer scored (Only in NASCAR and IndyCar) because he or she decided to ignore the other black flags for an extended catamenia of time. Car stays not scored until it answers the black flag by pitting.
Blueish flag: Faster car approaching (FIA), Local circumspection/slow vehicle on track (NASCAR)
Bluish flag with yellow diagonal line from upper right to lower left: Faster car approaching (NASCAR). Driver should move aside to allow i or more than faster cars to laissez passer.
Checkered black and white flag: Session finished. Leader of the race is a winner and drivers are required to slow to a safe speed after they cantankerous the terminate line.