Bit of a joke if I'm honest.. Under normal circumstances yes totally agree people who leave early and don't nominate a Marshall should get 0 points..
On this occasion after an early start to travel to stoke, to start racing at 11am then after a number of stops for deciding about the track etc ( in my mind this should have been sorted without going to a vote given the time ) it should have been in my opinion 3 rounds on the full track or 4 rounds with a shortened track. This is the course of action that would be taken for example if we had a delay because of weather at a BRCA National...without going to a vote... This is decided by the race director?
Nothing wrong with the track the way it was, it was just too big given the time of day when qualifying started.
When qualifying was completed, the finals were eventually put up about 6 ish??? To be then told they were messed up and had to be done again... It was the last straw for a few of us (and im sure others??) and we left.. Finals started just after 6.30 and there were a lot to get through... Considering the way the rest of the day had run, realistically I wouldn't have expected to leave the meeting much before 8pm (check out the hand book rule 15.25... Also look at rule 16.3 were all replacement marshals should BRCA affiliated and do the job adequately?)
In my opinion it's unexceptable for a meeting to run on this long and I'm sure there is something in the handbook about this..
In summary this wasnt down to bad weather this was down to bad organisation... I feel it's unreasonable that those who had to leave early are penalised for something which could have been easily avoided if planned properly.
I'm not having a go at any particular individual, I just feel really aggrieved (and many others do too) that I have been penalised for not being able to stay late when ultimately the unreasonable length of the meeting was a result of poor organisation and not the fault of individual drivers.
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