I agree in part to this, the quality of some of the marshalling could be better, I did see a couple of cases of people with their back to the part of the track they should be marshalling at he last regional, I also think in some cases the position of the marshall points should be given far more thought, as you build a track you need to think how it will need be marshalled!
But our biggest problem is multi class racers, if you have the 2wd A final straight after the 4wd A and short course you can have 2,3 or 4 people doing both races, thus you need volunteers, now on paper you already have 20 racers busy either marshalling or racing,then you will have some in the pits wanting or needing to work on cars, you have one racer from the last final doing a refereeing stint on the rostrum, so volunteers are starting to get thin on the ground, then when the race is under way they get shouted at.....so they think sod that next time round!
simple answear, if you race more than one class, and it causes a situation were you cannot Marshall the race after yours or the final you need to YOU MUST SUPPLY A MARSHALTO REPLACE YOU,IF YOU CANNOT YOU WILL NOT BE ALLOWED TO START YOUR RACE and you will have to marshal. Also the person you supply must be able to do the job, and must be a BRCA member.
And its up to you, not the race director or referee to sort out
Also on the subject we do at some meetings have some very young racers, now Im 110% for this as the young are the future of the hobby, but in one case a young lad who's feet were a good 4inches from the ground when he sat on the seat at his marshal point, was marshalling one of the nastiest and hardest parts of the track and realy should have been swapped to safer position for the sake of safety
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