Grrrrrr.. Love getting marshal hacked...
03-20-2011, 07:06 PM
#16
In most cases you're absolutely right. However, in either of these there wasn't anything that could have been done.
Trust me, I make plenty of mistakes. It's when marshals don't do what they are supposed to do, or fix their buddies truck across the track instead of yours that is 5 ft from them, it gets annoying.
Oh, and the marshall that picks up his bud's broken truck and proceeds to fix it while he's supposed to be marshaling. That's awesome.
Ahh well.. back to racing.
Trust me, I make plenty of mistakes. It's when marshals don't do what they are supposed to do, or fix their buddies truck across the track instead of yours that is 5 ft from them, it gets annoying.
Oh, and the marshall that picks up his bud's broken truck and proceeds to fix it while he's supposed to be marshaling. That's awesome.
Ahh well.. back to racing.
03-20-2011, 07:22 PM
#17
Your track too...huh 
Wednesday night during my main I noticed we had no marshalls on one half of the track. So I call out on the stand, "Hey guys be careful on the right side on the track there are no marshalls". So what do I do.... I slow down to roll the tabletop so I don't have any chance of flipping. I still managed to turn my car into a turtle on the table top as far away from the marshall I could possibly get". My mistake..I laughed as did everyone on the stand.
Wednesday night during my main I noticed we had no marshalls on one half of the track. So I call out on the stand, "Hey guys be careful on the right side on the track there are no marshalls". So what do I do.... I slow down to roll the tabletop so I don't have any chance of flipping. I still managed to turn my car into a turtle on the table top as far away from the marshall I could possibly get". My mistake..I laughed as did everyone on the stand.
03-20-2011, 07:27 PM
#18
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Hey man, all you gotta do is volunteer marshal for his race and repay the favor. That has always worked for me.
03-20-2011, 07:29 PM
#19
I hear ya man, bad deal for the main...just happened to me on Sat, lol! Glad it's toy cars we're racing and can still have fun after some knarly wrecks one can end up in
03-20-2011, 07:40 PM
#20
sounds like a how to marshall thread is in order
1.Marshall like you want to be marshalled
2.first look for traffic headed towards the car needing marshalled
3.try to remember which order the cars crashed and marshall in that order (tough to do sometimes)
4.stay off the phone
5.talk to your buddy later
6.pay attention to your corner not the race
7.not necessarily in this order
8. there will be some bad marshall jobs I have done it
I am sure there are more to add
1.Marshall like you want to be marshalled
2.first look for traffic headed towards the car needing marshalled
3.try to remember which order the cars crashed and marshall in that order (tough to do sometimes)
4.stay off the phone
5.talk to your buddy later
6.pay attention to your corner not the race
7.not necessarily in this order
8. there will be some bad marshall jobs I have done it
I am sure there are more to add
03-20-2011, 07:47 PM
#21
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it could have been worse
you could have spent the day cleaning out the garage, or mowing the lawn
you could have spent the day cleaning out the garage, or mowing the lawn
03-20-2011, 07:51 PM
#22
About 20 years ago one of my close friends and myself was racing 1/8th scale nitro, we had to deal with a real TOOL of a Marshal on a weekly basis at our local track(the kind of Marshal where you know, you wish for ONE week he wouldn't show up?). Not only was he slow, but he was rude and a few times he would on purposely take his time resetting a car for "specific" people he didn't get along with in the pits and around the track. Well one particular race he was stationed right at the end of a straightaway at the end of a good sized step up into a hard 90 degree corner and my friend had already had a few words with him on a qualifier previously for not even attempting to pick his car up(another Marshal ended up running across to grab it instead). . Sure enough in the Mains, around the first turn into the straightaway he just hit WOT and pointed the car right at him and launched it, and put his Inferno right into the guys gut missing his nuts by a few inches. His race ended in a "DNF". Got quite a few cheers though from alot of people on the sidelines though.
. Sure enough in the Mains, around the first turn into the straightaway he just hit WOT and pointed the car right at him and launched it, and put his Inferno right into the guys gut missing his nuts by a few inches. His race ended in a "DNF". Got quite a few cheers though from alot of people on the sidelines though.
03-20-2011, 07:53 PM
#23
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We are all humans...we make mistakes. Both as drivers and marshals.
03-20-2011, 08:04 PM
#24
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If I see someone make a mistake marshalling, but can tell they are giving an effort then I have no problems. It is the people that feel like they are above marshalling for others and put in an effort that matches their attitude.
03-20-2011, 08:17 PM
#26
At every race I've ever been in, the drivers from the previous race are supposed to marshal. Makes it pretty easy to keep track of who should be marshalling. Call them out infront of everyone, say "Hey you're supposed to marshall!" If they don't come and marshall your race, tell them they better not need your help next time you're marshalling their race. Also your race director should be penalizing those dudes next race day.
03-20-2011, 08:31 PM
#27
Got to vent here a bit as well.
Team driver of ours (leader) got hacked from behind by the second place driver and flipped the leader over and then got hung up on a pipe. Marshal grabs the leaders car first reaches down and gets the 2nd place (hack) back going mean while the third place guy runs into the back of the marshal and flips over, the marshal grabs him and flips him over all the while holding the original leaders (victim) car in his hands.
Team driver of ours (leader) got hacked from behind by the second place driver and flipped the leader over and then got hung up on a pipe. Marshal grabs the leaders car first reaches down and gets the 2nd place (hack) back going mean while the third place guy runs into the back of the marshal and flips over, the marshal grabs him and flips him over all the while holding the original leaders (victim) car in his hands.
03-20-2011, 08:32 PM
#28
At every race I've ever been in, the drivers from the previous race are supposed to marshal. Makes it pretty easy to keep track of who should be marshalling. Call them out infront of everyone, say "Hey you're supposed to marshall!" If they don't come and marshall your race, tell them they better not need your help next time you're marshalling their race. Also your race director should be penalizing those dudes next race day.
03-20-2011, 08:34 PM
#29
It sounds like you guys have a prettty terrible time with this marshalling thing. At the track I race on the owner/announcer calls out anyone who is supposed to be marshalling and isn't. He doesn't start the race until there is marshalls in all the correct spots on the track.
03-20-2011, 08:59 PM
#30
Got to vent here a bit as well.
Team driver of ours (leader) got hacked from behind by the second place driver and flipped the leader over and then got hung up on a pipe. Marshal grabs the leaders car first reaches down and gets the 2nd place (hack) back going mean while the third place guy runs into the back of the marshal and flips over, the marshal grabs him and flips him over all the while holding the original leaders (victim) car in his hands.
Team driver of ours (leader) got hacked from behind by the second place driver and flipped the leader over and then got hung up on a pipe. Marshal grabs the leaders car first reaches down and gets the 2nd place (hack) back going mean while the third place guy runs into the back of the marshal and flips over, the marshal grabs him and flips him over all the while holding the original leaders (victim) car in his hands.
meh