Oulton Park B/H Monday

[Ian Briggs]

As allready commented it appears to be an "interesting" year so far. From my view out of the Island Box I can only add to the comments on Marshalling standards, the two big incidents we had were dealt with textbook action. Chris and the guys got the Karter (ist?) stable and kept the other Karts away from Chris's bum which was sticking out onto the track.......
The Morgan really gave the tyres a whack, and shifted a lot of truck tyres and the earth behind them, interesting demonstration by Marshalgirl of the "Soak and scrape" school, of oil dressing!
In amongst the 7 red flags, there was even some good racing, the Mini 7s being the pick.

[gravel_monkey]

view from lakeside this weekend.........bloody scary. cheers for all the msg's so far. tickles me, as i said to andy c when we were on post, at the start of the day i was made up to be on post as the guys i was with all just muck about about and have a laugh, then when it all happened the same guys were amazing. big thanks to all guys on lakeside for getting each other through a truely weird day!!

[Hepatic]

Here's part of the mini rolling caught on video!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYWK0hJB3Ac

[Alan.F]

Well done to all really sorry i couldn't be trackside with you but work has to come first unfortunatly, i did manage to get there for a few hours to spectate what was a good days entertainment

[motorsportmarshal61]

same here alan well done to all again thats why people are proud to put on the orange week in and week out im so proud to be one of guys/gals but at the moment ive got that much work on but will get there for the next one
im going throw a sicky

[Hepatic]

I've been asked to write a piece on marshalling for an online PC racing magazine (long story!) and i'm planning to use our exploits from Monday as the topic. If anyone has any photos of marshals in action during the mini incident, if you could PM me that would be great. If not i'll ask some of our photographic friends for some "stock" pictures. Of course i'll be adding some links to the various marshals websites and 10ths too

The magazine is http://www.autosimsport.net/

[Nadine J Lewis]

If you go onto the BMMC website you'll find Chris Jones getting an award for marshal of the day - well done Chris http://www.marshals.co.uk/north.php

[motorsportmarshal61]

well done chris
hope its not a B and Q voucher

[Alan.F]

I have a couple of pics of the marshals from Lodge pushing the red 6R4 after it broke down if they are any use to you

[cdj105uk]

Can I just thank all involved with ALL INCIDENTS on monday for a fantastic job well done.

A big thank you for the award to all concerned but the award really was for ALL at Oulton What A Great Team !!!!

Many Thanks
Chris J

[Justin Moran]

Oulton marshal and proud to be! We are showing the way this year!

[Stuart Hill]

Originally Posted by C9/89

Oulton marshal and proud to be!

so you should be, just as the rest of us are proud to be part of Oulton or wherever else we marshal.

Originally Posted by C9/89

We are showing the way this year!

Yes, you've had some "big-ones" this year, but be honest...... we all have the same training (Karts,HillClimbs,Sprints, Circuits) and I'd like to think that all "other" Marshal's would have done just as good a job.

[Mark Mitchell]

Originally Posted by Hepatic

Gravel Monkey and the rest of the guys more than deserved their beers from BARC

You're kidding! There wasn't any beer, for which Margaret apologised. (This was an HQ meeting rather than NW).

In fact, it has to be said that - with the exception of Margaret and Ray - the BARC Senior Officials were a bloody miserable lot! Looked like they had the whole World upon their shoulders and made me feel as welcome as a fart in a space-suit! .

(Can we have a "Fart In Space-Suit" Smillie please?)

[Hepatic]

There was for the team at Lakeside, as a special for dealing with the errant mini! And Mark, have you ever thought they were trying to tell you something?

[Stuart Hill]

Originally Posted by Hepatic

There was for the team at Lakeside, as a special for dealing with the errant mini!
and they are different because?????



And Mark, have you ever thought they were trying to tell you something?

If so, then feel free to tell "Them" the Truth.


can't bothered to "edit" this to read right, get it or go away................... not bothered either way. Far Too many people having a go at each other for my taste. Are You a Volunteer Marshal (in whatever colour overalls) or What????? We are all supposed to be equal and just as bad (or good) as each other.

No One is any better than anyone else, as a Volunteer, anyone who says different......................... See Yaa!!!!

[gravel_monkey]

yes we did get a beer and my god did we all need it, poor kenny webb ended up with a rsi from all the blinkin reports he had to right.
yes mark, some of the officials did look a bit moody but can you blame them with the day they were lookin after! sounds daft but on reflection i really enjoyed the day. some good racin (inbetween red flags), some crackin company on post and even though it was hard work i went home feeling good as i had helped out, well worth doing.

as a quick other point. i know why on the following post it was said what ever discipline we do we are treined the same but i agree with the other guys about oulton marshals. iam sure other circuits say the same as they are the guys and girls you see every weekend gettin stuck in and they are the peeps who you know will do a great job.(not that any other marshals wouldnt)

[Justin Moran]

Those that know me, know I marshal at various circuits and I have done more meets at Donington and Anglesey than at Oulton this year so far, I have worked with some super people and never had a bad crew anywhere, my comment was slightly tongue in cheek because if you dont blow your own trumpet who will? ALL marshals do a fantastic job because we love the sport and want to do our best whatever the situation, I just feel especially proud to be a part of the crew that have dealt with some horrendous incidents at Oulton Park this year. Great work guys, see you all on the 21st!

[Mark Mitchell]

Originally Posted by gravel_monkey

some of the officials did look a bit moody but can you blame them with the day they were lookin after!

I meant before the racing.......sign-on time! They were very po-faced! And my comments were tongue firmly in cheek!

I'm proud to be a (Oulton, Donington, Anglesey, Silverstone, Castle Combe, Mallory, Cadwell) Marshal, but can see where Stuart is coming from.......even if his method of expressing it is a little abrupt! But Stuart tells it how it is and I don't have a problem with it.

Marshal of the day awards.......not really neccessary (Is it a one-off?) but a nice gesture I guess and Chris was very deserving.

[Hepatic]

yer i understand what Stuart is getting at, but its the first time ever i've known a team or individual to be singled out for an "award" of any type on the day. The page Nadine linked to clearly states the award was from one of the Formula Renault drivers, not BARC or anyone else. Thats a really nice gesture considering they probably only got 3 racing laps in between the 3 red flags!!!

I was on Chris's team and don't feel one little bit left out. We all worked together and although drivers were injured during the day, the actions of ALL OF US helped ensure they were kept to a minimum. If people want to acknowledge that with awards then fine, but i'm happy just knowing we did a damn fine job and everyone will live to race another day

[Dave Brand]

Originally Posted by Mark Mitchell

I meant before the racing.......sign-on time! They were very po-faced!

The person I signed on with was his usual happy self...but I didn't have to go back & ask to be reminded what time the briefing was!

[Mark Mitchell]

Just for clarification.......the "Usual" Signing on folks (aka Mike, Andy, Walter, Nadine) were fine.......the "Shirts" were a little miserable!

[Nadine J Lewis]

Originally Posted by Mark Mitchell

Just for clarification.......the "Usual" Signing on folks (aka Mike, Andy, Walter, Nadine) were fine.......the "Shirts" were a little miserable!

Maybe to do with us all being squashed into scrutineering bay! As the instructions were sent with this information Margaret and I decided to stick with it rather than upset all the incident marshals by asking them to move to Chequers (normal location!). We managed but not without the scowls of the scrutineers who thought we were encroaching on their space (sorry but 8 sheets for marshals sign on has to go somewhere!). Next time we will make sure we are back in Chequers for sign on. TOCA should be the only exception but then we shouldn't need to be fighting the scrutineers for space then!