serious accident at the track

[BP-Revo]

For whatever reason, I was marshaling once at an indoor track (read: electric only) and one guy was flipped over, so I jogged over to his car and as I bent down to flip it, he gave it a burst of throttle. He wasn't revving it all before, but only just as I bent down.

I got a face full of dirt (a good bit in my eyes), and so I proceeded directly off the track.

There were about 10 people on the driver stand and I was the ONLY marshall (it was open practice). They weren't too happy at the guy (who by the way, is a complete ass for blipping the throttle on his ELECTRIC car...)

I've heard of an instance where someone was killed while marshaling. A 1/8 scale buggy nailed the guy in the temple off a large triple and he was dead before he hit the ground.

[Bondonutz]

Originally Posted by BP-Revo

I jogged over to his car and as I bent down to flip it, he gave it a burst of throttle. He wasn't revving it all before, but only just as I bent down.I got a face full of dirt (a good bit in my eyes), and so I proceeded directly off the track.

Your a better man than myelf, I'd would have stomped on his buggy, What an Asshole.

You could've had scratched you eyes or worse.

[Krawlin]

To people who think that the racers shouldn't marshal and the track should pay people to do it..... if it were like this, people probably wouldn't marshal just to help out and because they are a good person and want to help out fellow racers, they would only do it for the pay. And my guess would be that the track would end up with people who wouldn't do their job right or would just mess around and use up time just for pay. If you race, you should marshal (unless you have a disability that prevents you from marshaling). It's just the right thing to do and you are helping out fellow racers, and if your car flipped during the race, you would want someone to quickly flip it over so you can continue with the race, so do the same for others.


I always wear Mechanix gloves when I marshal. I learned the hard way why you should always wear gloves when marshaling.... burned my hand on an engine head flipping over a 1/8 nitro buggy.