Bike Rider Magazine Summer Series Round 2

**nigela** · 30th December 2009, 20:36

It’s time to get your entries in for round two of the Bike Rider Magazine Summer Series.
Round 2 is on the short track at Manfeild
Entries close on Saturday 24th January 2010 for the race day on Sunday 31st January.
The entry form is available by clicking on the link below.
http://pacclub.co.nz/press/wp-conten...Entry-Form.pdf
or by going to the road racing page at www.pacclub.co.nz

There is also a Practice/Have a Go Day on Saturday 30th January anyone may enter this day.
There will be 5 classes running
Slow
Medium
Fast
Race (competition licence holders only)
Supercarts

You can enter this on the day but, I recommend booking in as the spots are filling up fast and I am holding positions open for all the volunteers who help on the weekend

We are camping at the track Friday and Saturday nights come and join us for a BBQ on Saturday night

Contact me if you have any questions

**CHOPPA** · 30th December 2009, 21:11

Thats good timing!

**nigela** · 30th December 2009, 21:59

Originally Posted by CHOPPA

Thats good timing!

Yeah, when I booked it that was a spare weekend, the dates for the nats changed after I had everything booked.

At least it will give the riders a chance to score some points before the top riders come back

**Shaun** · 1st January 2010, 09:39

Would love to support the Bike Rider Magazine series mate, but as you already know, wrong timimg bugger it.

Thanks for your efforts any way though

**nigela** · 1st January 2010, 14:59

Originally Posted by Shaun

Would love to support the Bike Rider Magazine series mate, but as you already know, wrong timimg bugger it.

Thanks for your efforts any way though

Never mind, Hope to see you 13/14 March on Track 1 at Taupo for round three

**Whitebait** · 4th January 2010, 18:17

Hey Nigel,

Do you need any more flag wavers for the race day in exchange for a free track day on the saturday???

**t3mp0r4ry nzr** · 4th January 2010, 18:28

Hey thats a good idea Whitey! I would be keen for some track time in exchange for flag waving too Nigel.

**nigela** · 5th January 2010, 06:09

Originally Posted by Whitebait

Hey Nigel,

Do you need any more flag wavers for the race day in exchange for a free track day on the saturday???

Originally Posted by t3mp0r4ry nzr

Hey thats a good idea Whitey! I would be keen for some track time in exchange for flag waving too Nigel.

I will have to get back to you on that. I have to give first option to the experienced marshals who do all of the summer series and the VMCC winter series.
If you would like to be listed for a regular spot as a marshal, it can be arranged.
I will also be putting the list together of marshals for the VMCC round of the National Champs.
I will PM you as soon as I can confirm.

**Shaun** · 5th January 2010, 06:25

Good reply mate, it is NOT as easy as many think to be a marshall, the write actions need doing NOW, Not after some chit chat as such.

I have seen some very dangerous actions from fill in marshalls mate, stick to the trained experienced ones if at all possible, or 2 experienced and one learner for the future if possible.

Go chase ACC for some funding for safety training of marshalls ha ha, Fact, it could be justified in reducing injuries?

**quickbuck** · 5th January 2010, 08:15

Originally Posted by Shaun

Good reply mate, it is NOT as easy as many think to be a marshall, the write actions need doing NOW, Not after some chit chat as such.

I have seen some very dangerous actions from fill in marshalls mate, stick to the trained experienced ones if at all possible, or 2 experienced and one learner for the future if possible.

Go chase ACC for some funding for safety training of marshalls ha ha, Fact, it could be justified in reducing injuries?

Excellent points there Shaun.
I remember back in the good old days... Well, actually only 15 years ago, we used to get a bit of a brief, and then "Let Loose"!

Were a few incidents that could have been done so much better!!!

I designed a bit of a mock training course as a Training Brief at work, and the instructor was extremely surprised to learn that there was no real course for Flaggies at all...
In his words, "You can't just send them out there, they might be an idiot and you would never know!"

From what I have seen at the track and read on here, we are actually a long way forward with the experience level of the flaggies.
They do a pretty good job.

Maybe i should design a full course, and get ACC to subsidise the traning of Flaggies??

**nigela** · 5th January 2010, 21:06

Originally Posted by quickbuck

Excellent points there Shaun.
I remember back in the good old days... Well, actually only 15 years ago, we used to get a bit of a brief, and then "Let Loose"!

Were a few incidents that could have been done so much better!!!

I designed a bit of a mock training course as a Training Brief at work, and the instructor was extremely surprised to learn that there was no real course for Flaggies at all...
In his words, "You can't just send them out there, they might be an idiot and you would never know!"

From what I have seen at the track and read on here, we are actually a long way forward with the experience level of the flaggies.
They do a pretty good job.

Maybe i should design a full course, and get ACC to subsidise the traning of Flaggies??

Yes I would be all for getting some formal training for the Marshals
We are building a base of really good marshals between PMCC & VMCC but will always need extra training. Even just "socailising" and discussing different ideas is a start. We will be doing that on the Saturday night.
I was surprised recently to find that a lot of people have never been shown how to use an extinguisher.
When I first started Marshalling (back in 1975) we were all sent on fire fighting courses and we all had ID cards that graduated from grade three through to grade one. You only went up a grade once you had enough signatures proving experience.
I want to look at getting some kind of formalised system in place for all volunteer training, but, at the moment all my time is going to trying to improve the Summer Series.