your moment of the year - Page 2

Red Baron · 24 Oct 2006, 10:16 (Ref:1747324)

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarrellB

After this weekend it has to be spending 6 Hours recovering a car on the Bulldog rally. Two rescue units four recoveries and 1 Subaru 180 feet down the side of a Welsh hill. Quite a challenge!
Best bit was one of the team asking us not to damage it!

Snap! Gott a agree with ya hun, that is going to take some beating

!!!

Note to everyone else: Both driver and co-driver escaped without a mark on them.

Rosie

blueflagger · 24 Oct 2006, 22:23 (Ref:1748217)

13-day trip to the UK and managing to play at 4 racetracks. For heaven's sake, that's as many US tracks as I got to in the States this year, and it took me months to do it here. (Doggone having to work for a living anyway!)

Micky.H · 24 Oct 2006, 22:54 (Ref:1748243)

Mine would have to be crossing the water for the Phoenix Park races, great people in a strange but wonderful setting for a motor race.

Steve Tarrant · 25 Oct 2006, 09:49 (Ref:1748695)

I have 2 moment of significance:-

1. if we are talking within the last 12 calendar months, then standing on the finish rostrum with a chequered flag in my hand at Kyalami, South Africa last November. The significance here is that the last time I was previously holding a chequered flag was in my accident 5.5 years earlier at Goodwood.

2. Marshalling this year's Le Mans 24 Hours race as a flag marshal at poste 106. Wet Wednesday, dry Thursday, and all through the race over Saturday/Sunday. Especially waking up at 3.30 AM for the 4AM-6AM shift - my body clock still hasn't recovered.

Now that I've got to the bottom of the list of operations need during the past summer, I hope to expand my horizons during 2007, starting January at Daytona Beach!

Steve

Alan Green · 25 Oct 2006, 16:25 (Ref:1749122)

Best race moment:
Watching 'the move' by Lewis on the big screens at Silverstone, the collective intake of breath followed by the cheering was incredible.

Best full race:
The final Rockingham Pick-Up race of the season - 35 caution-free laps of incredible racing averaging 130mph+ with gaps measured in cm rather than lengths

Best marshalling moments (can't choose a favourite):
- The start of the GP (after being moved up to assist on startline outside from Copse In)
- Ditto the earlier comments about the early morning safety car for sleep purposes (and for the fog) at the 24hr, and the 24hr in general
- Gantry duty & The Rockingham season in general, despite the early season issues.

Not a bad season all in all - still a couple to go though (including the annual one-off Brands mission for the Trucks / Pick-Up Truck finale)

Al.

chezza · 25 Oct 2006, 16:34 (Ref:1749129)

I've been having lots of trouble deciding on my best moment...

Racing moment wise have to agree with Alan on this one, that move was amazing and being at becketts and so seeing the result and piquet crashing through the sign.

The final of the legends at Brands on the 20th August goes down as one of the best races I've seen.

Best overall meeting has to be the great and british meeting at Castle Combe, great racing, great people, great circuit. Although the Lydden Festival of motorsport comes a close second!

Maranello Man · 25 Oct 2006, 16:39 (Ref:1749140)

Just has to be Lewis Hamilton taking the lead in the GP2 race at BGP, I was situated at Becketts Out and it was absolutely sensational. I have not heard a crowd cheer like that for a long time and it was definitely a "hairs on the back of the neck" moment.

JBrotbeck · 25 Oct 2006, 19:17 (Ref:1749295)

The spectacular crash at the Petit LeMans when Guy Smith tagged the wall doing 120+ and was OK. I got to pick up his bits and throw them over the wall. My first Major also. I finally got my cherry popped!

blueflagger · 26 Oct 2006, 01:25 (Ref:1749510)

Welcome aboard JBrotbeck. Nice to see another US marshal posting.

Doc Hollywood · 26 Oct 2006, 06:12 (Ref:1749602)

This year it had to be the Phoenix Park Races for me, not so much a moment but a whole weekend, great people on post and generally a good feeling throughout the the entire weekend. Its been way too long since I felt that good after a weekends racing!

Long live the Park!

EvilPumpkin · 26 Oct 2006, 08:47 (Ref:1749746)

Trudging back from the portaloo at the bottom of Post 4 in the pouring rain and casting a glance at the results board for the King of Kents race.

And slowly realising that we'd just got an Irish 1,2,3!!!! I'd been yellow flagging the race, so had my back to the traffic - and we'd had a fair few incidents - so I'd actually lost track of the placings.

I think they heard the initial "WOOHOO" over at pitlane!!!

allanh · 28 Oct 2006, 18:23 (Ref:1752083)

The spectators MX5 going on its own down the hill, through the fence, over the ditch, across the track and into the gravel at the old hairpin at Donington has got to be the most unusual moment of my year.

JimW · 28 Oct 2006, 20:59 (Ref:1752210)

Quote:

Originally Posted by DarrellB

After this weekend it has to be spending 6 Hours recovering a car on the Bulldog rally. Two rescue units four recoveries and 1 Subaru 180 feet down the side of a Welsh hill. Quite a challenge!
Best bit was one of the team asking us not to damage it!

Damm - he's just stolen my post.

And it was 200' because two 90' cables needed a 30' chain to do the last bit.

And I was at the bottom of the ravine talking to him at the top (via radio). My new boots may be waterproof to the ankles but when you are up to the knees then they just fill up.

Car owner "that's a £100k motor car". (voice in the background - "not now it isn't")

Sorry - I don't mean to be cruel to the owner but the fact that his two drivers survived unhurt after plunging 200 feet down a 70 degree plus ravine did seem to be of lesser importance.

Six hours to recover a car - a record I am quite keen not to exceed.

Regards

Jim

P.S. Makes 'late' finishes at Donington pale into insignificance.

Joyce George · 29 Oct 2006, 17:08 (Ref:1752844)

Quote:

Originally Posted by allanh

The spectators MX5 going on its own down the hill, through the fence, over the ditch, across the track and into the gravel at the old hairpin at Donington has got to be the most unusual moment of my year.

HUMPH

You didn't have to try and write the report on it!

allanh · 29 Oct 2006, 18:53 (Ref:1752915)

Joyce, you're so much better at that than i am, and anyway it made for an interesting conversation to race control via the radio!!

AndyT · 29 Oct 2006, 20:45 (Ref:1752995)

1. Being on the pit wall at the start of the Grand Prix.

2. Lewis Hamilton's overtaking in GP2 at the Grand Prix.

3. The last pick up race at Rockingham.
I wonder if Bernie would let the F1 cars do a burn up at the end of the race ? - it would make a great spectacle. It could even be the highlight of the Grand Prix.

JBrotbeck · 30 Oct 2006, 14:05 (Ref:1753594)

Quote:

Originally Posted by blueflagger

Welcome aboard JBrotbeck. Nice to see another US marshal posting.

Thanks! Lake Wobegon is in Wisconsin, right?

LOL you called me a "US marshal"...sounds like I work border patrol or something.

Sheila M · 30 Oct 2006, 21:14 (Ref:1753860)

My best moment of the year? Watching Deryk Young smash the lap record at Curborough in August - absolutely awesome.

And then he beat that record the next day when, sadly, I wasn't there!

blueflagger · 31 Oct 2006, 01:53 (Ref:1753997)

Quote:

Originally Posted by JBrotbeck

Thanks! Lake Wobegon is in Wisconsin, right?

LOL you called me a "US marshal"...sounds like I work border patrol or something.

Wisconsin?!? Oh dear. Garrison Keillor would be saddened to hear that.

Yes, I think it sounds a bit too much like border patrol too, but many of the Brits on this board don't know F&C as a cornerworking term. I get on this forum and my language changes to a more international standard.

JBrotbeck · 31 Oct 2006, 13:39 (Ref:1754431)

Shame on me. Powdermilk Biscuits FTW!

Minnesota me thinks now.

mini1400 · 31 Oct 2006, 16:12 (Ref:1754525)

I suppose it has to be walking to post 10 on my first day's marshalling at Brands via the pits at the first BTCC meeting of the year...

Best at Snetterton - watching Senna walk away from his massive shunt (guess what post I was on...)

Kermit Power · 31 Oct 2006, 22:53 (Ref:1754808)

Without doubt it was spending 8 hours standing on post 3 in the lashing rain at the FFF without a lunch break

That was my 6th day as a marshal. It was the first day I'd done with anything other than nice sunny weather. It was also the first one I'd done without a break for lunch.

If it was still as enjoyable as that day was, I don't see that there's much more that can be chucked at me to put me off continuing in my new hobby!

Shelagh · 4 Nov 2006, 18:45 (Ref:1757834)

Has to be the relief when I realised I had delivered the last lunch on the Sunday of the 24 Hr race and I could finally go and have my own (at 15.30).

Hope Alan's "plans" for next year work out!

peter195001 · 4 Nov 2006, 20:17 (Ref:1757874)

me nov 4 snett looking/ asking poeple that are to be on revett staight cound they "relaese" some to go around to bombhole

got moved see thread nov 4 snett for story & hot soup develied to post by ciruit staff

Kermit Power · 6 Nov 2006, 09:15 (Ref:1758810)

Another moment for me yesterday. Watching tiny wee little Legends followed by huge stonking big fume belching Trucks at Brands. Both superb racing, and I couldn't help laughing at the size difference!

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