Hello, from my point of view i refereed as I would like my race to be refereed, I tried to keep an eye on the top three cars and who they were catching and I called out the race order a couple of times during the race.
At Southport it just so happened that I raced, then marshalled and then ref'd 4 heats which I suppose as I am an F2 the heats following are going to be F1 heats so they got the benefit or not as in the case of Mr Mgee (sorry about round one Danny!)
Other Refs on the day had different styles, I can only comment on Mike Riley who ref'd my heat, he spoke to all the drivers at the start and told them to move over for the quicker drivers, he also encouraged us during the race to go faster!
I guess everyone has their own style, I took example from races where Stuart Whyman has been reffing and Paul Draper from a few years back.
Maybe there should be a standard practice adopted by all refs for all heats so you know you are getting consistency accross the board. But then who will ref the refs?
Discuss.....
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