Quote Originally Posted by noel157 View Post
Well, that was well organised.... Le Cop seemed to know what he was doing.....not.
I've said before, the FIA need to get serious about the way in which WRC events are marshalled with a specification of how many TRAINED (with a min spec for that) marshals per km (or whatever criterion is appropriate) should be available.
We've seen the hired security fiasco in Germany and now this with les flics in France. The gendarmes are not happy or oriented towards a marshalling role, only being there for crowd control, and the local marshals I've seen in France in the past year treat their role as a perk of being in a local car club in getting the best vantage points regardless of run-off zone. At least they aren't as bad as the Spanish marshals who use a whistle like traffic cops to tell spectators they can't walk on the course - 2 hours before the 0 car! We may not be perfect in GB but we are streets ahead of every country I've ever spectated in.