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I do get nervous easily if there's a lot of game pressure. That would've cost me even more had I not kept my cool and controlled my throttle.
Usually it's a very grey area that varies across various discipline in terms of addressing blue flags. What's worse is that, we had a blue-yellow combination which makes passing impossible. I'm sure other drivers are aware of the blue flags and the lapping cars' presence on-track, it's just the matter of letting you by in a clean manner.
But I would say in general it's a 50-50. The lapping car's responsibility to do a clean pass without losing time or bodywork, the backmarker's responsibility to allow the car to pass at the earliest, and safest opportunity, without losing time.
If a lapping car is within 1-2 car lengths of the backmarker, I would find it appropriate for the backmarker to pull off the racing line and let go a little when its deemed safe to do so.
If the lapping car is like a catapult throw away or not deemed feasible to overtake, I don't see an issue for the backmarker to be applying full throttle ahead, knowing that both would lose much time just to clear the blue flag and risk further complications.
