Drivers and Marshals (split from Yellow Flag thread)

[Draven]

I was reading and following this thread when it was under "Yellow Flags".

I can bit my lip no longer.

Glad this has been separated from the Yellow flag discussion.
To be honest I'm saddend by alot on this side of the thread, we are all on the same team, in it for motorsport.
Marshals ,Drivers , Observers, circuit owners, CoC's, scrutineers, the spectators.

All the same team, becaue the sport is not run for any one of them in particular.
It's not a sport centered just on the drivers and everyone else is just helping out, anymore than it's purley a show put on for the spectators to watch.
It there for the enjoyment for all envolved.

As this is now a Drivers and Marshals thread I'll talk about them for now.

Maximum respect should be given to marshals (and I"m not seeing that being given here), no one is disputing that a driver can give an opinion to a marshal on any action taken. But that is it, give your opinion respectfully and in an approprate way and then let them do thier job.

Drivers/car owners are always running a risk of damaging the equipment, and of course will want to minimise the risk. Thankfully there are a great big team of people there that want the same thing, they are called marshals.
They are looking after the public, the driver the drivers car and other competitors with what they do.

Marshals, Observers, Medics all want the same thing from what I can tell, good safe exciting racing.

Drivers and Teams seem to all want, good safe exciting racing. (and to win)
So as you can see the goals are similar to say the least.

To end the rant I'll say that I think Drivers should have to do some marshalling experience and It would be great if once a year the marshals got a race to take part in themselves. These 2 steps would seem like a good way to educate both sides.

IMO of course