03-14-2006, 09:47 AM
There (as you know) is a very long (and continuing) thread about this in the LHR forum. I completely agree that if people don't like inexperienced drivers out there then there should be seperate races.
I'm not good enough to get out of someone's way, if I tried that I'd end up wrecking both of us. If someone is faster and better than me they should be able to get around me. That's the reason I barely practice anymore because people get pissed off that non-experienced drivers are 'getting in the way'. I'll just wait till the qualifiers to get practice in. I don't know what more I can say. I move around the track at my own pace (slow) and do my best not to wreck. I think I'm doing a pretty good job of it and each time I feel I get a little better. Having said that, if at some time in the future I get to where I'm winning a-mains I think I'll remember what an uphill climb it was to get there and have compassion on the guys that are new to the sport.
I do a lot of marshalling, usually till I'm so tired I have to go sit down and this is one place where the unsportsmanlike conduct is horrible. People revving their engines (one guy cut my finger wide open last Sunday when I tried to turn his engine off because his pipe fell off, next time I'll let him blow his own engine up). I started another thread in the LHR forum asking Bernie not to make the jumps so high because people don't care about the poor marshall out there trying to grab someone's truck, they fly over anyway and they could care less if they hit someone in the head. I've had people run into my ankles several times.
I'll keep on marshalling just because I think its the right thing to do but on those big jumps I'm going to start letting peoples truck sit there until everyone has gone by or they figure a better system out. I have a family to think about and getting sent to the hospital over this hobby is not what I'm after. I got a good idea from a guy at the train station, he said they should give you guys poles to reach out there and bump the truck over (or grab it), sounds like an excellent idea, especially if it had a hook on the end.
I'm not good enough to get out of someone's way, if I tried that I'd end up wrecking both of us. If someone is faster and better than me they should be able to get around me. That's the reason I barely practice anymore because people get pissed off that non-experienced drivers are 'getting in the way'. I'll just wait till the qualifiers to get practice in. I don't know what more I can say. I move around the track at my own pace (slow) and do my best not to wreck. I think I'm doing a pretty good job of it and each time I feel I get a little better. Having said that, if at some time in the future I get to where I'm winning a-mains I think I'll remember what an uphill climb it was to get there and have compassion on the guys that are new to the sport.
I do a lot of marshalling, usually till I'm so tired I have to go sit down and this is one place where the unsportsmanlike conduct is horrible. People revving their engines (one guy cut my finger wide open last Sunday when I tried to turn his engine off because his pipe fell off, next time I'll let him blow his own engine up). I started another thread in the LHR forum asking Bernie not to make the jumps so high because people don't care about the poor marshall out there trying to grab someone's truck, they fly over anyway and they could care less if they hit someone in the head. I've had people run into my ankles several times.
I'll keep on marshalling just because I think its the right thing to do but on those big jumps I'm going to start letting peoples truck sit there until everyone has gone by or they figure a better system out. I have a family to think about and getting sent to the hospital over this hobby is not what I'm after. I got a good idea from a guy at the train station, he said they should give you guys poles to reach out there and bump the truck over (or grab it), sounds like an excellent idea, especially if it had a hook on the end.