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Originally Posted by Akrapovic
That's one of the coolest jobs I can imagine. From a marshal perspective, what is the passenger seat position about?
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It's the Safety Car Observer role. Two people in the car: driver + observer. Driver, um, drives; observer handles all the comms, takes instruction from race director and passes it to driver, provides feedback to race director on circuit conditions (fluids, debris, grip levels etc), what the racing cars behind are doing such as whether we've got the leader and whether the train is strung out, and does all the hand-wavey stuff when doing any "let these cars past" wave-bys. Very, very occasionally observer may be asked to provide written reports (like post chiefs do at marshal posts). Oh, and operate the lights, which is fairly important!
There's occasional tea and cake, but not during races. Tea spills too easily under braking.
TL;DR: long periods of doing nothing interspersed with short periods of abject terror!