A Flag Marshal's Journey: Island Magic November 29th & 30th 2014

Well drawing to the end of another motor-racing year and Phillip Island put on its best weather for this event Island Magic previously know as (The Victorian Championship meeting) which has been running for 24 years. With around 250 cars entered for the w/end we were in for some great racing I was posted on Start/Finish doing Coms With Rebecca and we had a Different driver each day to help out on Flags who were doing their 8 hours for Lic.
Car categories were Improved Production, Porsche 944, Formula Fords & 1600, Sports Sedans, Formula Vee, Historic Touring Cars and Sports Cars.
The w/end provided some great racing with plenty of spin offs and cars finding walls with the Sports Cars just not getting it right on Saturday with Red flags for both driver Qualifying and Co Driver Qualifying sessions and bringing out Safety car a number of times for their 1 hour race on Sunday.
Formula Vee finished off the weekend with a 10 lap race with 52 cars entered was great to see these lined up on pit lane before the race.
All races got off to a good start so we did not have to much work to do at our point though got to see some good action with cars going wide at 12.5 coming flat out along the grass before re-entering on the main straight. Flag points 9.0 to 9.6 seemed to be getting all the action with plenty of radio calls coming from them also 6.0 and 2.0 got their fair share all in all a fantastic way to finish off the year only have one other event to go and that is the HQ 4 hour at Winton raceway.
Look forward to starting off the new year at Bathurst 12 Hour. Stay safe until next time Paul.