THE MARSHAL IN YOUR POCKET
You can get an app for almost anything these days, whether it be listening to your favourite band, fighting dragons, finding a bit of romance or turning on your central heating.Adding to the list of things that can be done via your mobile phone is organising a rally… As we all know, marshals are the people who make motorsport happen – and they are in increasingly short supply. Not the orange-suited, extinguisher-bearing heroes who keep watch at race tracks, you understand, but rather their high-vizzed roadside cousins who brave the elements at grassroots events across the country, collecting time cards and keeping an eye out for cone penalties.
The number of marshals available to officiate at club rallies was already dwindling before the dreaded virus hit these shores, but it is universally agreed that since the hiatus ended, marshalling represents one of the biggest hurdles that clubs face in staging events.
The BTRDA’sAlanWakeman
