[MGDavid]

Originally Posted by Lancsbreaker

Back on racing related comment, I went to Oulton Park yesterday to watch the Alfa racing championship - despite the event being publicised as the BMW Sommerfest...


Some good racing, but in the 2-hour Tegiwa Club Enduro race there were some horrendous clerking/marshalling decisions, in a 50-lap race of which around 16 were run under at least 5 Safety Car periods.


We were watching overlooking Cascades, and at one point were shocked to see one of the circuit 4wd fire tender pickups travel down from Hill Top, through the Knicker Brook complex and disappear up Clay Hill, with blue flashing lights on, but on a live track and with no flag signals that we could see. Apparently a Ginetta on fire near Druids......but a service vehicle on a live track ?


Then after a car went off at Cascades we had the frightening instance of one of Hi-Ab recovery trucks being released from the Cascades holding area onto again a live track (which involves the truck doing a U-turn onto the circuit from the service road) whilst competitors were coming down Dentons.....Safety Car wasn't flagged for quite some time after this! There might have been a white flag shown at Dentons marshal point, but truck shouldn't have been on track until SC was active.

H&S and nanny state taking over. Racing on the continent you see this all the time, just a white flag (that's what they're for) and expect fire tender / fast response 4x4 pickup / flatbed recovery etc and guess what, everyone knows the rules and expects the unexpected so to speak and avoids them.