Marshalls required for club sprint at Llandow

[Jason Plato]

please see this thread here

 

Dave

[Jason Plato]

anyone ?? ☹️

[DSL]

Very difficult this lack of volunteers.

 

Which I can well understand.

 

People are reluctant to give up their precious free time, for free.

 

Is it not possible to charge a bit more for the events & either pay for a professional set of marshalls or entice non professional,non compeating people to do it for a wonga incentive 🤔

[Jason Plato]

The fact is that without volunteers we wouldnt have any motorsport at all . If we are to start paying marshalls for the day I believe this would cripple the sport - the costs of running an event are already high without further expense .

 

I give up my free time to organise these events and its becoming ever more difficult to get others to help you out to the point where I am not going to organise any sprints next year because I'm tired of all the running around, organisation, paperwork and general stress of pulling all this together with little help being offered - other than by a handfull of my fellow local members - who unfortunatley are unable to help on this weekend.

 

Blunt maybe - but its how I feel ☹️

 

Dave

[Dannyboy]

Dave...am attempting to get my Sis and Dave21P to come along and help! if I get the nod I'll drop you a blatmail mate....

 

If not....although I'm competing (if the entry gets there on time!) is there anything I can do when not sprinting?

 

Dannyboy

 

153bhp and 184lb/ft ??????????????????? My arse

[Big Brother]

Dave,

 

I *may* be able to Marshal on Saturday.

It depends on work (I wont be able to commit until nearer the time) but put me down as a possible

 

Have orange overalls - will travel

 

Steve

 

 

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[nickaddison]

Can't make it I'm afraid Dave otherwise we would help. Know how you must feel - that's why I wrote the article that's in this month's Low Flying

 

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[Big Brother]

Dave,

 

Pretty certain (subject to any last minute call outs) I will be able to marshal the sprint.

I should also be bringing along another ex Brands Hatch marshal who's willing to help out as well.

 

Steve

 

 

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[Jason Plato]

Well done Steve

 

Thanks for your help and I look forwasrd to meeting you .

 

8.45 am OK for a Marshalls briefing

[Big Brother]

Dave,

Sorry I didn't get a chance to say hello on Sunday - I was stuck over the back of the circuit being scared by people on shiny ali cars who kept driving sideways (and round and round at one point )

 

Had a great weekend with both the trackday and the sprint.

Looking forward to the next one 😬

 

Steve

 

 

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[Jason Plato]

Yes - many thansk for your help *thumbup* *thumbup* *thumbup*

 

we were realy short on marshalls but managed to scrape by .

 

sadly that was the last Llandow event from me - but I'm glad you enjoyed it

 

Thanks once again

[Tony Whitley]

Steve's "ex Brands Hatch marshal" was there but couldn't marshal after twisting his knee getting out of the tent in the middle of the night - no connection with the 6X he'd been drinking in Llantwit earlier - so I donned the orange jacket and helped out. Steve said I was "as much use as a chocolate fireguard", that's good, isn't it I can certainly recommend the experience and the "pi$$ing rain" made for more entertainment 😬

 

Thanks for organising it Dave and congratulations on the addition to your family. [steve says that was another Dave Jackson 😳 I thought your driving was, er, quite vigorous for a 51 year-old.]

 

Fatalism means never having to wonder if it's safe to overtake

 

Edited by - Tony Whitley on 14 Aug 2005 20:15:02