Positives from croft at the weekend

[Mark Baines]

Now much has been written about what happend at croft on sat and sunday and i believe a lot of the discussion has been constructive whereby everyone has learnt something and hopefully everyone has helped eachother.

what i now want to point out is that on the whole croft has had some good publicity out of this,has just about everyone who has been to croft agrees (including myself) that at croft there is a fantastic dedicated bunch of marshals who always make you feel welcome and you can always have fun with so well done and thatnkyou to everyone at croft.

so all in all the other thread including my post was not just there to knock croft it was there to highlight some flaws in our marshalling system which just happened to come to an head at croft so to people like steve gibson who has worked tirelessly at croft for many years do not take the previous thread personnally and lets all take the positives out of it and take on board any constructive critism and lets all work together to keep the british marshals as the best in the world like they have been for so many years.

look forward to seeing everyone at croft shortly

regards

Mark Baines

[Motorsportgirli]

Mark I would alike to just hiijack this thread if i can to say thankyou to those who came to the BBQ on saturday night and i will look forward to organising the next one!!!

As a regular crofty thanks mark for your kind words!

[gachjoel]

Looking on the whole,
they didn`t do any thing wrong.
If the 2nd car didn`t come in there would be no issue and it would have been what we`ve been taught to do.
2 fire marshals
1 marshal for driver
and one spotter.

So what do we take from it....
the other thing that we are always taught..
Always expect the unexpected.
even tho incidents like this are few and far between,its just proof that it can happen...and at some point will happen.

its a hobby we choose to do,A "sometimes" dangerous hobby.
Be Safe & Be Happy

[Steve Tarrant]

I concur with you Garyjoel, there seems to be nothing wrong to criticise here! happens, the important thing is how you deal with it. And from what I have heard, all was done as smoothly as possible.

[Paul Newns]

Having watched the highlights programme, I thought the commentator was very dismissive of the injured marshal (they'll be OK after a cup of tea) but full marks to Matt Neal for showing concern that they were OK.

It certainly seemed like an "interesting" weekend, with lots of incident.

Well done to all who were there.

[marshal_man]

Tim Harvey was totally correct in his comments, but again another good weekend at Croft and will definatley be back next year.

[Motorsportgirli]

Im glad to see so many of you will be back next year!! I had a fab time and enjoyed meeting you all

[stu1764]

being the marshal involved with the incident i think now is the time to put this issue to bed(which is where i am now resting a sore knee!!!).I will be back at croft in a couple of weeks an look forward to speaking to all my friends and people i dont even know im the one with the blue yamaha 1300 motorbike so please feel free to grab me and say hi

Stu.D

[Davie-c]

Bbq was great.See you all again in September

[gwar]

Welcome to the forum ....STU 1764 (marshal 1.....from other post)
This to will be my last post on this subject.....(hope my spellings up to standard.... )

Usually stu this is a very good forum to make new contacts,voluntereing for those events you didnt at the beginning of the year, and generally a very good bunch of people/marshals.
I think we all dont mind constuctive critsism, some people tend to be destructive, and like digging them selves a hole.........

There are a few pic,s around (northern echo, motorsport news ect...) showing that there were the minumum amount of people at the incident the rest were behind the cars, doing there duties in a safe place watching the traffic.....waiting for the call to move.....when required.......well done...good job (the only panic was to get the medic over)

However stu......you were seen to be eating a pie...20 mins before....DOH

Spoke to mike as well..he,s good.
I personaly cant wait to marshal with everyone again and at croft, lovely circuit..good poeple.....and very hardy spectators..

[flagwaver]

Originally Posted by stu1764

im the one with the blue yamaha 1300 motorbike so please feel free to grab me and say hi

Stu.D

stu, you might want to refraise that.

[Motorsportgirli]

Lol we are very close at croft ya know flagwaver

we like that kind of thing

[r.arthur]

Originally Posted by Motorsportgirli

Lol we are very close at croft ya know flagwaver

we like that kind of thing

i know what you mean!!! lol

[marshal_man]

r. arthur can you not use text language please (lol) is not acceptable

[Motorsportgirli]

Oh dear!!!

Well i enjoyed meeting those people i can remember seeing (if you saw me friday night you have a 50/50 chance)

[Guinness2702]

Originally Posted by marshal_man

r. arthur can you not use text language please (lol) is not acceptable

pfft, n00b, 'Internet shorthand' was around a long long time before text messaging

[Ianwales]

Hi all

The things that stick with me from my first visit to Croft,

1. the tea available to the marshals at sign on.

2. The friendliness of the marshals and circuit staff

3. I really enjoyed Post 4 and the people who were on that post really made the weekend for me

Finally my memory of the weekend is at the height of the downpour Sun Morning Steve in race control telling everyone to try and "stay as dry as possible"! Probably brought the biggest smile to my face the whole weekend, even on the way home my wife asked me what I was grinning at.

Ian

[Nighthawk]

On my first visit to Croft.

The friendliness of everyone on campsite and circuit staff.
Having a BBQ was a fantastic idea.
Tea at sign-on.
The fact that everyone called me by first name and actually remembered it.
On post the local marshals made us feel welcome.
all in all a very enjoyable weekend as someone else has said i would say the best i've had this year.
I will be back
And once again thankyou to all at Croft.

[cornish git]

The memory from the weekend, the friedliness of the people, the people on post made me so welcome, it was like old friends you had not seen for a while
BBQ was very good, more please.well done sarah, and the boys.
croft has been good ,will be back, if i can get andy to do the drivining againall 600 miles.
Also nice to see ramsey again after about 6 years.
Thanks again to all.

[Darren Holmes]

The outstanding moment for me was when one PC asked on the radio during the rain break if "at the request of the marshals the Porsche race could be cancelled!"

Regrettably it fell on deaf ears, funny though.

[Nighthawk]

Yes i would do the driving again all 600.
It was worth it.....

[cornish]

Darren ,
Was that you getting more TV time last week.
I hope you thanked John George for the phone you won

[Darren Holmes]

Originally Posted by cornish

Darren ,
Was that you getting more TV time last week.
I hope you thanked John George for the phone you won

Rick,

Yes it was, becoming a bit of a habit now!

To be honest I never gave it a thought, the wife said he only hit our post to get his phone back!

I did mention to him and you can see him laughing about it on the TV coverage that he was the one driver to have driving tuition earlier in the week, a little ironic given his car was in bits.

Originally Posted by BTCC.net

John flew 400 miles from his home in Guernsey to Croft earlier this week for an intensive day of race tuition in a road saloon with driver coach and ex-top-line racer John Pratt.

A really nice guy, a bit shaken by the huge impact, but ok and willing to have a laugh about it.