I must confess to being a young incident marshal at post 4 ( North Tower) at Crystal Palace. Not only that , I have a couple of photos from daily papers showing me as one the marshals helping put out Dick's overalls. He is on the track at my feet .....his only injuries, I believe, were burnt ankles as his socks were nylon!!
The car went off heavily at my feet and the brake fluid caught fire on hot brake discs. There were lots of impacts at that first corner as the run off was all of 2 feet! It was there I meet the real Lord Percy of Percy as a fellow marshal emerging from the azaleas on the infield....and we have been friends and marshalled together ever since, the last being this Saturday at Combe!!
