I agree with you on pit crew. I disagree on marshals.
Where marshals are concerned, while you know they are about on the track, it is easier to identify and locate a marshall and take avoiding action if needs be when a marshal is wearing a vest and in the line of fire. Now you might say "but I shouldn't have to...." or "the marshal should be paying attention" or something similar but unfortunately we don't live in a perfect world and if the risk of injury are lessened slightly by something as simple as wearing a high-viz vest then so be it. Its not exactly a hardship wearing one.
A chap I know has a massive lump on his shin from getting hit at the IBR 1/8th meeting at Padova. The IBR doesn't really enforce any message to marshalls other than "don't get hit" and no vests are supplied. Obviously we can't know if he'd had got hit had he been wearing one anyway but I can't help but think its less likely. Getting a Rallycross car in the head at any speed really doesn't bear thinking about.
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