Marshals Retirement Age

[pixie]

Now that Dave Brand has reached the age of 60 shoudln't he step down.........with the help of a stair lift

.......and what should be the age that your licence is revoked ???

[Dave Brand]

Originally posted by pixie
Now that Dave Brand has reached the age of 60 shoudln't he step down.........with the help of a stair lift

Another case of premature congratulation! I ain't 60 for another year yet....and I don't have different birthdays in different forums!

Stair lift? There speaks a man who uses his hairdresser's car to get from race control to the bogs!

Just think yourself lucky you've chickened out of Anglesey next week....

[EvilPumpkin]

LOL - happy birthday Dave. You old fart

[PaulPerkins]

Many happy returns for yesterday, Dave! Remember - you're not a year older, just a year less young

[sss]

pixie what age did you retire from marshalling, and there is your answer

[ascarracinguk]

dave aslong as your still enjoying it and you can run like sh!t with your zimmmmmmmerframe when a car is rolling towards you i dont see any problem- hell just look at cliff whos still goin strong at oulton ad ian at donington- there about a zillion years older than you- well maybe.. no scratch that there probably younger than you but.... oh hell im gonna hide now!

[racerkeke]

Hey, what if you want to vote for something that's not on the list? The Clerk of the Course often looks younger than I do, but that's only because he is one of those clean-living types (also helps he gets to hang out in the dry instead of out on the turns). And I know lots of 55-60 year olds who are great workers. I'd vote for "when you can't get the car numbers anymore", or "when even Formula Vees are too fast". I worked with one of the former at an event on the west coast, and one of the latter at Mosport, and both of them scared the be-whatsis outta me.

PS. Happy birthday, Dave!

keke

[theracegypsy]

I'm sure Stan Hunt would take exception, but he is still well and truely able. I think it depends on many factors, but certainly if trackside there should be a system in place to "sensitively " remove guys who are a danger to themselves and others.

[Dave Brand]

Originally posted by theracegypsy
but certainly if trackside there should be a system in place to "sensitively " remove guys who are a danger to themselves and others.

There is - they give them a title like 'safety officer' & let them drive around all day in hairdressers' cars!

[JimW]

When you're not up to it. I feel good for a few more years yet.

Regards

Jim

[scorch]

Surley observers should give up when they cant see the numbers on the cars, can't concentrate on what race is going on, needs prompting that 8 cars overtook under the yellow flag and then comes to you asking for the time it all happened....


Oh no sorry thats the entrance exam :-)

[Stephen Green]

Hey, that's me you are talking about Scorch! I vote for 2 foot high numbers on cars, every car MUST be a different colour and what's a yellow flag?

[pixie]

..............and they don't go faster than 20mph so you get a chance to write the number down

[Cynic]

A bit of news from the BARC training day yesterday: apparently Stan Hunt has decided to hang his overalls up after 56 years on the bank. 56 YEARS?!!!! I'd have to marshal till I was 80 to match that!

[theracegypsy]

Exactly