Best & Worst of 2012

[Mark Mitchell]

It's the "Off" Season for a lot of us on here, so I thought you might want to use a minute of your time answering the following......

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
3: Favourite Series/Championship
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
5: Favourite Local Driver
6: What Would You Change For 2013


Me.........

1: Castle Combe - Full grids.....Great track..... Friendly People
2: Knockhill - Unwelcoming
3: Euro Saloons
4: BTCC
5: Stuart Jones(NWFF)
6: Grading System

[aland]

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
3: Favourite Series/Championship
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
5: Favourite Local Driver
6: What Would You Change For 2013


Me.........

1 Knockhill, 2nd home and a great bunch of people/mates
2. croft, no running water and no bothy facilities
3. smrc minis
4. f-fords
5. carol Brown SMRC legends
6. grading scheme

[Matt Gusher]

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
3: Favourite Series/Championship
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
5: Favourite Local Driver
6: What Would You Change For 2013

1. Donington - Friendly people, decent facilities.
2. Oulton Park - Only went once but didn't feel very welcoming. I'd go again though.
3. Britcar 24hr
4. Most Porsche series.
5. Alex Delahunty (my 9 year old son, started karting this year)
6. A circuit within, say, 50 miles of Leeds would be nice!

[Chigley]

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
3: Favourite Series/Championship
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
5: Favourite Local Driver
6: What Would You Change For 2013

1. All that I've been to this year.
2. I won't go to circuits that I don't like.
3. Everything that HSCC organises.
4. BTCC
5. Steve Dance
6. Introduce stringent and publicised penalties for BTCC drivers regarding driving standards and gamesmanship.

[White flag man]

[QUOTE=Mark Mitchell;3168630]It's the "Off" Season for a lot of us on here, so I thought you might want to use a minute of your time answering the following......

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
3: Favourite Series/Championship
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
5: Favourite Local Driver
6: What Would You Change For 2013



1/. Le Mans (Classic), second Mulsanne chicane.
Always wanted to marshal at Le Mans. Always wanted to marshal on the Mulsanne straight at night. Always wanted to see a 917 racing at Le Mans and there were 3, one of which stopped at our post. Heaven!
2/. Only been to 6 circuits this year and they've all been good. ( Brands, Snett, Silverstone, Goodwood, Zolder & Le Mans)
3/. GT3/Blancpain. I just love those cars.
4/. FIA GT1. It's become a joke, especially when a support race can have better cars (Dutch Supercup)
5/. Rob Huff.
5/. An Independent Silverstone 24hrs with cars up to GT3 attracting 70 cars with 2 grids.

[Mark Mitchell]

Can I just add that the Knockhill marshals were great on my visit in August but had a couple of problems elsewhere!

[ascarracinguk]

1: Oulton park - friendly, scenic, great racing
2: Silverstone - great circuit, rubbish camping!
3: Northwest sports/saloons and world sportscar masters
4: smart cars/ speed series
5: Paul oneill
6: season has gone far too quick, I will try to pick the clubs I want to marshal for next year, rather than just everyone...there are certain clubs that have big grids and are really marshal friendly. Oh and I start racing again next year hopefully, so will probably have to cut down the marshalling a bit unfortunatley

7: best meeting of the year - silverstone classic
8: worst meeting of the year - britcar meetings, NEVER AGAIN!

[Woolley]

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
3: Favourite Series/Championship
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
5: Favourite Local Driver
6: What Would You Change For 2013

Having had a much reduced season this year for various reasons, and so having selected the meeting I could do very carefully:
1. Oulton. Picturesque, exciting, still reasonably close to the action and you can marshal it properly
2. I've avoided the ones I don't like, although there are very few.
3. WEC/LMS/whatever it's called next year. Still the first tick every year.
4. National FFord. Seriously, how can you make such a pigs ear of what used to be a simple, fun and over-subscribed championship. Walter Hayes is a reminder of how it ought to be - someone from Ford ought to go and watch it.
5. Trevor Willis, British Hillclimb champion for the first time and well deserved after years of developing the new car. I could have named several of the competitors in this series but Scary Trev edges it for such a superb acheivement.
6. Move the Britcar 24hours forward a month or so in the hope of better weather and warmer nights. Although on the basis of 2012's weather it probably ought to happen in March.

[Mike Kelly 1]

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
3: Favourite Series/Championship
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
5: Favourite Local Driver
6: What Would You Change For 2013

1. The Nurburgring Nordschleife - 24 hours - fantastic atmosphere, MASSIVE grids, German food and beer!
2. Silverstone - desolate, posts too far from track, camp site on a hill.
3. NorthWest sports & saloons - big grids, great mix of cars in different classes.
4. Smart cars (human dice)
5. Paul O Neill
6. For every circuit to have a dedicated sign on building for marshals such as the one Knockhill uses, which you use to sit in for lunch / get changed at end of day etc.

[The Fat Clerk]

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
3: Favourite Series/Championship
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
5: Favourite Local Driver
6: What Would You Change For 2013

1) Aintree, never been before but will deffo be going again
2) London to Brighton, persisted down, car broken into
3) Anything the MG Car club do - brilliant racing @ Donny particularly
4) Formula Student - It's the future of the sport
5) Simon Hadfield - great driver and all round good bloke
6) The weather, this year was a tad damp wasn't it?

[Gerryc]

[QUOTE=The Fat Clerk;3168931]4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013


4) Formula Student - It's the future of the sportQUOTE]

Dave, your reply reads like you don't like FS (i.e. you wouldn't mind if it wasn't around). From our discussions I don't think that is what you meant?

[The Fat Clerk]

Typical Clerk, getting the wrong end of the stick again!

What I meant was - I would miss it.

What wouldn't I miss - BTCC with it's appalling driving standards that feed through the system into other forms of racing. You try talking to the driver and he says - but I saw .................. do that move on the telly

[numbersix]

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
3: Favourite Series/Championship
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
5: Favourite Local Driver
6: What Would You Change For 2013

1. Oulton Park. Possibly one of the most beautiful circuits anywhere.
2. Silverstone. Sorry, nice people but some of the marshals' facilities are third world. And as for the GP camping ...
3. Gotta be Legends.
4. Formula 5000 - unless it returns to the point when all the drivers are racing, not promenading.
5. Any driver who also marshals.
6. My coat. A waterproof one would be nice.

[gravel_monkey]

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
3: Favourite Series/Championship
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
5: Favourite Local Driver
6: What Would You Change For 2013

1:anglesey - gorgeous scenery, stunning circuit
2: silverstone. - marshals fine. just cack camping and on post. when you have a f1 car hurtling at you and you cant move because your stuck ankle dep in mud or you spend all day ankle deep in water due to no drainage, not my idea of fun
3:any big caterham grid
4:btcc,f1 and any small grid
5:ric wood, lovely guy and complete looney
6:my weight

[icorper]

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
3: Favourite Series/Championship
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
5: Favourite Local Driver
6: What Would You Change For 2013

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
Brands Hatch - Good meetings, good grids, good racing (mostly)
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
-
3: Favourite Series/Championship
Has to be the legends, awesome cars
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
maybe smart cars
5: Favourite Local Driver
Ian Pearson - 4 x URS FF2000 Champion and a very nice guy
6: What Would You Change For 2013
The Jet stream - so maybe we could have a little less moisture.

[Mike Kelly 1]

Originally Posted by gravel_monkey

6: What Would You Change For 2013

6:my weight

[b1ackcr0w]

To all those who've mentioned BTCC as the series they could live without. May I suggest you add at least one day on the bank at a Speed Hillclimb next year? I think you'll find it the exact antithesis to everything you don't like about BTCC.

[The Fat Clerk]

Very true, and you might also like to consider karting, with often 30 or more races in a day, you wont be hanging around!

[snoz wanger]

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
3: Favourite Series/Championship
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
5: Favourite Local Driver
6: What Would You Change For 2013

1:Oulton Park......quality Track, Fantastic people!...Nice toilets..Druids corner!.
2:Silverstone......Mud Mud Mud and......mud really.......
3:CNC Heads.....by far!.
4:BTCC , saying no more!.
5:Rick Wood {Legend}.
6:My Underpants.

[chezza]

Well...in a change what appears to be the norm...

1: Silverstone - great bunch of people, someone different to marshal with everytime, great banter!

For those that have had it as their number two because of the mud/hillside campsite. Try silverstone for another meeting, the campsite isn't usually on a hill, ok some of the posts are muddy, but then the same would happen at other circuits with that amount of rain too.

2. Ok I didn't marshal anywhere else this season...!
3. Quaife Motorsport News Saloon Car Championship, Cannons Motor Spares TinTop Challenge and Quaife Intermarque League (but then they're my boys so I'm biased). A series/championship that I don't look after...the National Legends
4. I have to say BTCC as well, but then I don't marshal
5. I can't single out any of my drivers as I'm unbiased in that respect! However Lawrence Davey from the legends has had a great season.
6. Less rain, more sunshine please!

[aland]

Originally Posted by b1ackcr0w

To all those who've mentioned BTCC as the series they could live without. May I suggest you add at least one day on the bank at a Speed Hillclimb next year? I think you'll find it the exact antithesis to everything you don't like about BTCC.

did 2 days on startline at the MSA national sprint at kames, great fun apart from not liking the methanol fuelled cars. get to chat to drivers, good atmosphere in paddock, good people

[PabloTeK]

1: Close between Donington (much laughter at times) and Mallory.
2: None!
3: MX5's
4: Intersteps
5: Nic Grindrod, always fun to watch on the Rockingham oval!
6: Actually having something more to camp on than the floor as I did at the GP...

[Woolley]

Originally Posted by chezza

Well...in a change what appears to be the norm...

1: Silverstone - great bunch of people, someone different to marshal with everytime, great banter!

Agreed. Oulton wins because it's just so picturesque and exciting, but I very much enjoy Silverstone as well. Don't judge camping on the GP - the normal campsite has electricity and showers.

[Steven Humphrey]

Originally Posted by Chigley

1: Best Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
2: Worst Circuit You've Marshalled At This Year - Reasons
3: Favourite Series/Championship
4: Series You Wouldn't Miss If Wasn't Around In 2013
5: Favourite Local Driver
6: What Would You Change For 2013

1: Silverstone-I haven't really ventured anywhere else (apart from a day at Rockingham) this year but Silverstone still has the best meetings in the country, plus there's so much history I still get a buzz driving into the circuit. Great bunch of regulars too.
2: Can't really say anything for this one. I do stick to circuits I enjoy (sadly I never made it to Snett this year) so it's irrelevant really.
3: WEC - always top of my list (in whatever guise) every season.
4: FFord - such a great series in the past but now a shadow of what it used to be. And the new car's are rubbish.
5: Has to be fellow Cambridgeshire resident Huffy!
6: Fewer championships with bigger grids.

[NewYankee01]

Originally Posted by Steven Humphrey

1: Silverstone-I haven't really ventured anywhere else (apart from a day at Rockingham) this year but Silverstone still has the best meetings in the country

How do you know if you haven't experienced anything different???