A good days racing and it was a little more relaxed than usual.
Being the first round it does need a few little niggles ironing out.
BUT can I ask all racers for the next (and future rounds) to wear appropriate footwear?
Yes it was bloody hot, but at the end of the day you have 2.5-3kgs of truck heading for your feet. And to see the marshal that stood on my durango in the final (breaking the servo) was only wearing FLIP FLOPS!!
was quite bemusing!
One, your feet are at risk of being damaged.
Two, you can't move quick enough in flip flops to marshal correctly (hence the reason why the marshal at the end of the straight stood on my car).
...and three, BRCA state that suitable footwear is worn before anyone is allowed onto the track. And before anyone goes off on one about the SC nats not being BRCA affiliated, it is there as a health and safety issue and I think should be followed in the SC series considering the weight and speed of these cars.
Personally I would never consider wearing flip flops to a large (or any) meeting, and to see one or two people wearing them whilst marshalling heavy trucks was quite rediculous.
You'll be the first people to moan when a truck hits your foot, and no doubt you'll blame the driver for driving too fast!
Use your brains guys.
Rant over.
