I was instructing at H-Fest and was about 4 cars behind that little misshap. Glad I finally got to see what happened. It turns out it happened just as I had suspected. It was weird driving by and seeing the car that far off the track in the tires... pointing the wrong way... upside-down.
As for the flagging, They black flagged pretty quickly after that happened IIRC, so I think we passed it twice, once when it happened, and once under flag.
This guy was soloed for the event. The minor mistake he made would most likely not have happened with an instructor in the car AND it happened very early on the first day.
So, to everyone, instruction is good stuff. There truly is no person out there that can't learn a trick or two from someone. I like having passengers in my car for that reason, maybe they can tell me a trick or two that they use to get around the course.
OK, I am done preaching now...
PS, there were two Lotus cars driving at the event, I never did get to meet the other guy... Too bad
Dave