Winter Marshalling Events

[hellblade]

Hi folks

Just a quick and random question, do you guys ( n girls) know of any events during the winter season (end of november till feb), any help apreciated

Luke

[Steven Humphrey]

There's the Plum Pudding meeting at Mallory Park on boxing day but apart from that, thought about rally marshalling? I can recommend the Rockingham Stages (usually mid december) as it's circuit based, so not a big step from race marshalling.

[kipper]

You may want to look into the Brands Hatch Stages (Jan 22nd 2012).

[hellblade]

ok thanks to both of ya, il give rallying a looksie and see whats avaliable.

[gravel_monkey]

depends were in the country you are, anglesey has its winter meeting at the end of november

[PVDA]

and remember your winter is our Summer down here in sunny australia

[hellblade]

Originally Posted by gravel_monkey

depends were in the country you are, anglesey has its winter meeting at the end of november

yeah im booked up for november im afraid, i do fancy a go at anglesey at some point though itl probably be in the early months of nex year


PVDA .... what can i say, well apart from you rotter (the rest would result in a ban) :P ,

[gravel_monkey]

any weekend is good as always fri testing and two days of racing but would look out for the barc legends meeting.always an awesome weekend

[hellblade]

by legends i assume your talking about those little motorbike engined cars (usually support the trucks?) if so yeah i love those little sods

[PVDA]

Originally Posted by hellblade

PVDA .... what can i say, well apart from you rotter (the rest would result in a ban) :P ,

Funnily enough the vast majority of our circuit racing on 2 or 4 wheels is done from Autumn to Spring and we tend to do bugger all in the height of Summer.

Summer is when Speedway and Drag Racing is held as they're weather dependant (wet track = no racing) and only have short races. In most parts of Australia it gets way to hot in Summer for longer races or running the risk of marshals dropping like flies from the heat exposure, trust me it's not a lot of fun standing in fire proofs in the summer heat all day.

Even Speedway and Drag Racing do the bulk of thier racing in the late afternoon and evening.

[hellblade]

well i never :P , suppose it does make sense, we brit marshals seem to overheat at 25 degrees C wouldnt fancy the temps you guys get,

what you need to do is invent a super cooled marshals hut, all problems solved

[juliet]

Originally Posted by hellblade

what you need to do is invent a super cooled marshals hut, all problems solved

Or get one of those cooling vests that the F1 drivers wear, obviously in slightly bigger sizes, bright orange and completely free

[gravel_monkey]

Originally Posted by hellblade

by legends i assume your talking about those little motorbike engined cars (usually support the trucks?) if so yeah i love those little sods

yes there the ones, always a big turn out as well because there based on the island

[hellblade]

Originally Posted by juliet

Or get one of those cooling vests that the F1 drivers wear, obviously in slightly bigger sizes, bright orange and completely free

hhhhmmm you might have an idea there

Originally Posted by gravel_monkey

yes there the ones, always a big turn out as well because there based on the island

aye, i had good fun watching those guys at the trucks last year pity im missing them this time round though

[HairyDJ]

If you fancy trying some of the different disciplines / events out there, a few training days are starting to appear on http://www.volunteersinmotorsport.co.uk/index.html - just click on training tab at the bottom of the page. Plenty of Rally stuff there already.

RaceSafe (bike) training days need to be signed up for by registering / joining now.

[hellblade]

Originally Posted by HairyDJ

If you fancy trying some of the different disciplines / events out there, a few training days are starting to appear on http://www.volunteersinmotorsport.co.uk/index.html - just click on training tab at the bottom of the page. Plenty of Rally stuff there already.

RaceSafe (bike) training days need to be signed up for by registering / joining now.

aye thanks for that