In the fine traditions of this blog, marshalling encompasses all forms of motorsport, with this in mind I took myself off to marshal at " modified live". Now this is not really my thing, a bunch of acne ridden 20 some things with 1,000,000. decibels coming from the boot of their Vauxhall corsa. Wrong wrong wrong!!! The day in question was at cloudy an overcast day at Brands Hatch the programme said there would be a couple of practice sessions and then a quali session for the "Fiesta Cup", these kids are 14/15 year olds and they really go for it, a couple of small incidents and making sure the track was clean but not too much to do for these guys.
Then came the drifters, I don't mean the '60's Motown blokes these guys seem to like driving sideways as fast as possible, like I said earlier not really my thing, but you've got to be nothing but impressed by what they do. The track was cold the weather cloudy and these guys are still smoking their tyres "big time" and that's one thing we all go racing for right, the smell of burning rubber.
As far as the marshalling went it was a pretty quiet day, that's the great thing about being a motorsport marshal, you can get to see all manner of motorsport events that you would not necessarily pay to go and see, but for a little effort and a bit of spare time you might just find something you like or never know about and fancy getting involved in.
Next up was the "Historic F1" meeting but I'll leave that for next time.
All the best petrolheads.
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