Wheelie bin racing is a national sport at the capital of suffolk, trouble is the wheels fly off about 60 mph, and then the sparks fly and make one heck of a noise!!!! i'm up for some wheelie bin racing at Rockingham!
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Wheelie bin racing is a national sport at the capital of suffolk, trouble is the wheels fly off about 60 mph, and then the sparks fly and make one heck of a noise!!!! i'm up for some wheelie bin racing at Rockingham!
Graham, I just hope to goodness that the culprit isn't a member of this forum... :sQuote:
Originally Posted by GeeBee2
As the "comms equipped observer" on Turn 4 I can assure you it is NOT less onerous than being on 'The Bank' at conventional race meetings. Safety is paramount. Doing the job of what usually would be 3 pepole is not an easy task. Who do you think calls for the yellow lights? Come down and join me on Turn 4 and I think you might change your mind on a degree of lesser coverage.Quote:
Originally Posted by Old Stock Nut
Rant over
Whoa gal calm down, I think I know where Brian is coming from and will answer fully tomorrow.
Hi OSN,
What you suggest would be less onerous if we had a full compliment of marshals monitoring the oval and also had viable teams manning the infield posts.
As it is we are on a frayed shoestring for both so I'm afraid the load is even more onerous. To man the oval to a level that would be acceptable in the States we would have a team of marshals manning both the Turn x In and the Turn x Out posts, these teams should comprise of an observer, a communicator and an assistant who rotate their roles on post according to ability and experience. The observer concentrates solely on the traffic that has left the previous sector and watches everything closely up to but not beyond his shoulder. The communicator passes on to RC any observations that the observer has; the assistant scans the track as a second pair of eyes for the observer and also looks out for debris, oil etc................ So on Rockingham's oval we should have at 24 marshals, we are lucky these days to get more than four. It is normal for us to only man the Turn x Out posts with one person who does the work of six in the States. It is very onerous, very demanding, dangerous and the concentration, instant memory recall and accurate reporting of incidents required is incredible. The additional factor that makes oval marshalling more difficult is that you are right on top of (at times no more than two feet) cars that are travelling in excess of 150mph so your sight of cars and incidents is akin to the speed that a flash gun goes off, darn quick!
Conversely the infield posts are also usually manned single handedly and there the guys/lasses have to observer, report, flag, attend to errant drivers who have fallen off the black stuff, and tend to debris (when safe to do so) and potential fires. This is usually done by an observer, a pair of flaggies and a minimum of two incident/course marshals.
Oval only events could not happen as they would be uneconomical to run with the current Oval racing license holder (BRSCC). The BRSCC only gain income, to offset the track hire from Rockingham, from race entry fees which limits them to SCSA and PuT racing on the oval at the moment. Other formulae are capable of running on the Oval and are MSA sanctioned e.g. F3. but do not do so, therefore additional racing is provided to add entertainment and income by use of the infield running additional BRSCC championships. Believe it or not the other BRSCC championships are queueing up to race at Rockingham they like it so much! It also provides a diversity of racing that is more appealing to the general public, although not neccesarily to the diehard oval fans.
Cheers
Ian
I thought you did a good job on Sunday...especially flapping your black floppy ears on your hat to the beat of the music...lol....assuming that was you?? I take it you were trying to keep cool? We were up in T4 stand getting sunburnt while you were dodging the minibus :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Jordygirl
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Originally Posted by R3ROK
just so people know, i know the "culprit" and he is not a member of this or any other forum. i have seen the email the culprit had sent and quite honestly it is not threatning at all, the culprit was expressing his view and has since appologised to the person in question, for his email. i am in persesion of his season pass which he has passed to me to return, although i wont yet through haste, of which he has been a member since 2001 and will not visit rockingham again- unless something is sorted out with the series. i will not name names, all i will say he is a member of the boys in blue (ne nor ne nor) in northamptonshire and has never missed a race at the rock since its opening as far as i know.Quote:
Originally Posted by Reynard
T4M do you know if he has expressed himself to Bernie Cottrell, he may calm down if he heard the full scenario :) likewise anyone else who had issues with the weekend.
All I can say is that I also was disappointed at how the weekend finished.
:)
i will ask and let you know, then i will say no more on the matter, like us all we were all annoyed at the weekend, but we have to look forward to the next one now.Quote:
Originally Posted by Chigley