VSCRC RD 3 SANDOWN 19TH & 20TH JULY Hot Dog Round

Well back out Track side again this time Sandown for Victorian State Circuit Racing Championship.
Categories were Formula Fords, MG & British Invited Cars, Historic Touring Cars, Sports Cars, HQ Holden & Saloon Cars, Formula Vee, IMP Production Cars and Porsche 944.
We call this the Hot Dog Round Due to it being a winter round and they give the Marshals hot soup both days and Hot Dogs on Sunday for lunch, Never short of flaggies for this event.
Saturday was a wet start after overnight rain and very cold day but no rain. We had Qualifying in the morning and 9 lap races in the afternoon I was assigned to flag point 5.5 Drivers Right on back straight with Lee and Steve sharing coms and flags. Good place to be to see cars at speed otherwise a quiet point to work. A lot of cars going off between points 2 and 4 and also between 9 and 11 I think about 28 reports all up for Saturday from around the track. Sunday cold again but we had a heavy fog but lifted enough to start on time at 9.10amToday I was moved to 13.0 which is on Drivers Left opposite Pit Entry towards back of grid. Race Day with 9 lap races in the morning and 11 laps in afternoon again quiet day for us with only one report from our point. But need to be on your toes for race starts another great Team Zoe, Brian flags and Owen Sector Marshal.

Morning Brief

5.5 looking back to 5.0

5.5

full view 5.5

13.0

looking back to turn 12

Some Sport Cars

Medical and 'Fireies'

Winton VMRC Round 2 and Trucks July 5th & 6th 2014

Well another w/end of Motorsport while V8s were in Townsville in nice warm weather I was up at Winton freezing my butt off with a great team from VFT flag Marshals. What a great w/end we had despite Saturday being cold and wet and very challenging for the drivers Qualifying and first round of races went well. I was on flag Point 2.0 Normally a point full of action and close calls but I had nothing but a few wides and short cuts the drizzle was enough to keep the track wet and all of our stuff but a good hot lunch in the base of race control provided by Winton warmed us up and ready for the afternoon racing. Sunday still very cold with snow on the mountains and a icy breeze but at least it was dry. A full day of racing again no major incidents around the track and I only had one report to write. Hot roast Beef rolls for lunch once again warmed us up ready for the afternoon.With the trucks racing all flag points on inside of track need to vacate to outer edge for safety they race on the short track all other categories raced long. Last race last lap I was glad I was on outer edge as  a truck took a short cut behind my flag point and only missed it by two meters was good to watch. Race categories for w/end were: Super TT's, Suzuki Swifts, Hyundai Excels, Sport Sedans, Pulsar Challenge, Super Trucks, BMW & Invited, Modern Sports Cars.Sandown in Two weeks stay safe everyone
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Morning Brief

Flag Point2.0

 

Pre Grid

 View From 2.0

End of Day

 

GRM Open Day 31st May 2014

Always good when Race Teams have an open day at their workshops and this Time it was at Garry Rogers Motorsports Team Volvo. The Best thing about this one is its only 20 min from home.Was a great day with many other cars on display our Flag Team VFT had a promotions stand to make the most of the opportunity to catch people who may be interested in Marshaling. Great to see the drivers like Scott Mclaughlin just causally walking around with their fans signing anything and everything a very relaxed atmosphere. A good turn out of Fans with plenty to look at even doing pit stop challenge, with all parts of the workshop open with demos of what they do and plenty of staff on hand to talk to about the cars and engines.

Historic Winton 2014 24th & 25th May

Well another Race meet done and dusted Historic Winton was the first time I have done this event as it clashes with other events each year and so I have missed it but never again this was a great w/end of old classic cars and bikes. This w/end Winton used the short Track and I was assigned post 2.0 which is 4.0 on the long track for those who know Winton, two up on each point worked with Brad on Sat and Russel on Sun. Good fields of Cars and Bikes which included the following,
 Firstly bikes into 4 groups 1: All Vintage class c 125's,P3 250's and P3 250's. 2: All Sidecars, 3:  P3 500's & unlimited P5 up to 600's, 4: P4 unlimited & P5 unlimited. Some of these Bikes dating back to 1926.
Cars. Regularity, Formula Ford, M&O Racing, Lb Sports & Racing, Q&R Sports & Racing, J&K, Group Sa,Sb,Sc, Group Nb,Nc.
Some Brief explanation of classes.
J - Vintage up to                       31/12/30
K - Post Vintage                       01/01/31 - 31/12/04
L - Historic Cars                      01/01/41 - 31/12/60
M - Historic Cars                     01/01/61 - and before 31/12/65
Nb - Classic Saloon Cars         to 1965
Nc - Touring Cars                    Prior to 1973
O - Racing & Sports                1966 - 1969
P - Formula 5000 Cars             Pre 1978
Q - Racing & Sports                1970 - 1977
R - Racing & Sports                1978 - 1987
Sa - Production Sports             01/01/41 - 31/12/60
Sb - Production Sports             01/01/61 - 31/12/69
Sc - Production Sports             01/01/70 - 31/12/77
The Sidecars always a bit of a worry out of 4 events three of those pillions fell off one serious accident on the Saturday when one of the sidecars hit Tyre barrier at turn one. one of the riders sustained some fractures to his leg and had to be flown to Melbourne he should recover fine but scarey to see. Otherwise apart from some spins and the usual push and shove when you have 36 N class cars trying to get round turn 1 we only had to write three reports. Stay safe have fun till next time. Paul

Where we meet for Briefing

Post 2.0 short track or 4.0 long track

Officials Gifts

Some of the Cars

View from My Point