Well its now January 2008 and I have put my name down for marshal training at Cadwell Park in March this is an opportunity to receive free fire training and marshal basics to give you an understanding into how to perform the job and what is expected. I also received my NE area magazine with some other information on who to contact to do different venues and racing.

Looking forward to that with anticipation as it is the real start of my role as Tango man/Race Marshal

My first days racing as a marshal at Donington Park for the BARC winter series.

This was 4 qualifying sessions and 8 races throughout the day.

Took the wife and kids with me to the meeting as they wanted to watch the racing and the spare ticket they send worked well ( under 12's are free ).

7.00am Sign-on ( probably the worst bit about marshaling )

Arrived at circuit at 6.30am ( didn't want to be late for first meeting ) parked in paddock...

After watching F1 on TV for years and promising that one year we would definetly get tickets for the british GP we found out about the World Series of Renault which is a 2-3 day event held free of charge at different race circuits throughout Europe.

We visited Donington Park last year (2007) for both Saturday and Sunday sessions and enjoyed the experience immensely. On the back of the programme was a page regarding volunteering for marshals which up until that point I thought was...

Well as the family has gone and taken a bite out of the motorsport world and started down the role of race marshalling ( im about to do my grading meet to lose the "traniee" badge and gain course marshal status ) along with my eldest who has just started as a Cadet.

I thought I Would do my blog on my life in the fast lane as a race marshal.

Its a very interesting job with loads to learn and more to do ( on good/bad days depending on your view )

Here is...

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When discussing almost every election, people always ask: "Why do we have to choose between these candidates? Why don't better people run for office?"

Well, being a politician is like being a B-movie actor. You work hard, you're underpaid, people think they might...