Bathurst Easter Motor Festival 2014

Well who could of asked for a more wonderful w/end the weather was fantastic with cool mornings and beautiful sunny days. This was a three day event with Regularity, Sports Cars, N class classics, Touring cars and F3. The F3 class Set a new Track Record of 2m02.6701s. I was working at 10.5 at top of Mountain Friday we had Practice and Qualifying with a good day and not to much happening, Saturday saw a big pile up on the first lap of a 10 lap race of the sport cars right in front of our point a car spun coming out of 10.0 with most of the field behind him we ended up we multiple contacts bringing out the Safety Car but in the end the first car was the worst being towed away with the rest able to drive off on their own. On the restart we had A Porsche end up in the sand trap bring out the Safety Car again I think in the end they only made one lap out of ten without Safety Car. Sunday morning fairly quiet but the afternoon saw a Subaru WRX dumping oil from 9.8 all across top of mountain down to the bottom where he stopped but before we could bring race under control another car spun on the oil at 10.0 hitting the wall and causing substantial damage and this was in the Regularity so after a big clean up which took over 1/2 hour we were back on track. Sports Cars had a 1 hour race to Finish the day with a good first 1/2 hour things started to go wrong after driver change and Safety Car again took up most of second part of race, with a one lap sprint for the finish we ended up with a two car roll over at the end of the chase 22.0. Top w/end with great friends and most of all the drivers of all incidents came out OK.

Flag 10.5

Looking down to 11.0

Looking back to 10.0

View down to Race control and paddock

Speaks for itself

Winton 400 April 2014

Another w/end done and dusted this time V8 Supercars at Winton and what a w/end to be track-side with some of the best racing I have seen for a while and to see the team I follow FPR get 2nd in race 8 and 1st in race 9. And to see History in the making with Erebus getting their first win in race 8 good on ya Betty.
Friday I was on flag point 1.0 pit exit with two others looking after flags,blend line and stationary blue for cars exiting pit lane so even though not much happened at our point we were still were kept busy with Practice for all categories today. We had showers for about an hour in the afternoon but day was mostly fine.
W/end I was assigned to flag point 5.0 with Steve Becker this is on a small straight before a sweeping left turn also a good spot to see it all going bad from Start round to turn 4.0 you can see almost 100% of the track from this point. Again nothing big happened at our point a few cars going wide and a sport sedan pulling up next to us for a visit but a great w/end heaps of fun.
Next event Bathurst Easter Motor Festival.

Flag 1.0

Flag 5.0

 

Erebus Win Race 8

LEE HOLDSWORTH

FPR FROSTY

Mark Winterbottom

Our visitor from Sport Cars

Touring Car Masters

Shannons Nationals Round 1 28th to 30th March 2014 Sandown Raceway

Well what a w/end great weather great company and great racing. categories were Aust Manufacturers, Porsche GT3, Radicals,F3,Saloon Cars Super Six and Aust GTs. I attended all three days Friday being free practice I was assigned  to Flag Post 11.0 with a Trainee, first time at this point on a small straight leading into turns 11,12 and even though a quiet day was a lot of fun and no real down time so day went fast and only had a few cars going wide. Saturday and Sunday was assigned to Flag Post 9.0 with 4 other flag marshals and a communicator and Sector Marshal great team and plenty of fun. This post is on a left hand turn with cars coming down from 6.0 through some s bends at speed so a lot of locking brakes and if they dont get it right into the sand trap they go. Saturday had the most action with a rollover just past 6.0 in the super six touring cars driver ok but car not so good. With a few wides and spins we were kept on our toes but the afternoon proved the best with 5 reports in about 40 mins in the last two events lots of pushing and spins but nothing serious. The F3 race at 1415 in the afternoon really woke us up ... How long does it take to clear a flag point when a F3 is heading towards you at speed DAMN FAST I tell you but he missed by that much but wiped out the Shannons National sign and unlucky for the next car who ran over the sign now flat on the track and ended up in the sand. On Sunday our biggest incident was a Lambo spinning into sand trap and bringing out a safety car we did a quick clean up on a hot track in between safety car laps all good back to racing we go. Next Event Winton V8s until then Stay Safe everyone.

Post 11.0

Looking towards 13.0

Looking back to 10.0

Post 9.0

Looking towards 10.0

Sand Trap

Looking back towards 6.0

 

Melbourne AGP off Track 2014

Had only a few opportunities to get photos off track so here is a selection of those. Thanks to the great team I worked with which made it a great w/end and the new friends I made from Hawaii, Singapore and Abu dhabi.