What sort of race meeting cannot get enough flaggies or fire marshalls?
Most of them, smart arse. Look last time you went to a meeting or even the ten meetings prior did you volunteer to help !? Answer most likely %99 NO, You would have been forced to do the slightest of duties!!! fork I get seriously pissed off with racing bludgers that can slag off at race meetings and officials but would not even forken well fart to help out. Do you have a MA officials license??? have you ever shown another person how to operate safety equipment properly!(Do you forking well know yourself!!) I have, I do and I am and I have a up to date officials license from Steward on down.
What sort of show we running down here ?? tell me where else in Australia there is a dedicated Motorcycle Sports complex like Broadford. Now Piss off and take a good look around.
i have little to add timbo other than a decent road race meet should be able to supply at least track marshals, never mind the basic Ambo, as we paid to have it on standby at the track as part of the race fee. When i road track we also had the dedicated flag marshall's association onside, we donated to and they supplied members and we toped it up.
As far as a dedicated sports complex half your luck, but what road track should be approved by MA officals if it cant even supply the right type of fire extinguishers to put out a basic petrol fire. You can only assume its a track ride day and every one is just lending a hand, but what would have happened if it had blown up ? or the ridder was down on the track and run over and killed which nearly happend in the video ? last race you would be having there for a while while the incident was reveiwed.
that was a disarster waiting to happen, if your on that commitee or panel you should be rolling that video out and planning how that incedent could be better handled in the future, if one more thing had gone wrong in the shot i would have been surprised and could have been tragic in so many ways, then you guessed it more "official dom" will come down on two wheelled sports because some smart arse consultants can show we cant organise ourselves.
just for the record i supply my misses for flags at most events i ride, and i have assisted our club on come and try days, and more so help when we have the kids rider testing days and log book start up/learn to rides, and yes thats an hour each way.
most fires are statred by CFS volunteers.
so what was the question ?
ps............ i Still feel for the bloke, that's got to hurt.
