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gudday

as the title suggests we're putting the call out for marshalls for the Welly Winch Challenge.

Event is running Fri/Sat/Sun of the 25/26/27th November.

It will be run in a similar style to the Kiwi Challenge we ran at Queens Birthday whereby the marshalls will take a small group of 2-3 trucks out to do stages and return them to the hangar so they can get their next set of stages and go out with a different marshall.

We need marshalls for Friday afternoon, all day saturday and sunday morning.

Most hazards are within easy driving distance of less than 5 mins to the stages and its easy driving (2wd). The only stages we need a competent driver to marshall are at the end of cruiser drive

Friday night we require a few vehicles to park up at intersections for the duration of the night stage and possibly the same again on Saturday night

Camping onsite at Rallywoods as per usual and all the usual requirements for you to bring to look after yourself.

All help greatly appreciated and it would be nice if you could stick your name up here to show you're available,

Cheers

SKID and REECE

Probably no good for Fri or Sat coz I'm shifting Vinces workshop but I should be good for most of the week before for course setup and Marshalling Sunday

I'm available for Saturday/Sunday at least at this stage. Could probably come in Friday night

yep im in fri arvo to help out ......considering i done squat thus far and tied up with shit to do until then.....

I'm there for sat and sunday, will be up friday night.

I can bring my quad up if that would help me get around (pm me if thats a good idea)

iI, I can do Friday/Saturday & Sunday

Yea should be available for this....

I can do Friday, Saturday if need be. Will be good to help out.

i can be up there early friday if needed and will be in for the weekend.

yep ill be in town from around the 15th nov and can help out whenever after that

sambo wrote:yep ill be in town from around the 15th nov and can help out whenever after that

bring the beast and enter dude

Actually if you can let me know if I am needed that would be sweet. If you do need me that's all good, if not I will head up to Hamilton and spend the weekend with my mate there,

Lincoln

lincooln wrote:Actually if you can let me know if I am needed that would be sweet. If you do need me that's all good, if not I will head up to Hamilton and spend the weekend with my mate there,

Lincoln

not if i still have your car you wont

stinky wrote:

lincooln wrote:Actually if you can let me know if I am needed that would be sweet. If you do need me that's all good, if not I will head up to Hamilton and spend the weekend with my mate there,

Lincoln

not if i still have your car you wont

Fark, looks like I'm cornered already.

I'm in for marshaling, with only two entries so far, the workload is going to be fairly light......

Moriarty wrote:I'm in for marshaling, with only two entries so far, the workload is going to be fairly light......

Be good to meet you Bob.

Im good to help out all week end.
Have got friday off as well

Hey all,

we are still looking for more marshals, so if you can help, please post up and come along and have a fun weekend with us in Rallywoods.

Cheers
Reece

Hey how are you going to do the marshall briefing and training Reece, do we have to download and try and famularise ourselves with the whole rule book or are you going to give us a cut down version of the applicable competition rules and processes we'll need to know out on the stages?



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I'm plannning on going up but I have paintball shoot-up on Friday night and work on Sunday as well as kids so I may be over commited already with adding on Marshalling duties. I should be able to asssit in some manner though

now theres THREE entries.......

Moriarty wrote:now theres THREE entries.......

Plus the two that I have from the Levin boys

suzuki1k wrote:

Moriarty wrote:now theres THREE entries.......

Plus the two that I have from the Levin boys

plus the south Island boys are all paid up

Hey guys you still need marshalls for the weekend? I could do saturday and sunday if that helps? Otherwise ill just be up there to have a look see. Cheers Tim

the more marshalls we have the easier it is to run, otherwise some of the marshalls are gonna have to run after the trucks and move some tape for when the truck comes back, etc etc etc

the more the merrier, if you bring friends along then at least you will have somebody to talk to

Sweet as what time it kicking off on saturday? Cheers Tim

DSTRBU wrote:Sweet as what time it kicking off on saturday? Cheers Tim

timeframe.....................

1pm kick off friday afternoon with 3 stages, needing at least 1 marshall per stage but more would make it easier

8pm night stage, need marshalls in vehicles to block roads


saturday morning 9am start time running 4 groups of 2 stages each throughout the whole day, need 4 marshalls to control each group or 2 stages and as many helpers as possible to help those marshalls

8pm sat night stage, track blockers required

9am sunday we start the 4 morning stages before calling it a day around lunchtime or thereabouts


will be preferable for the marshalls to have their own vehicle to get around as you will be taking 2-3 competitors out following you to the stages and returning them to the hangar before taking another group out until all groups have done your stages

hope all that made sense, its being run very similar to this years Kiwi Challenge

basically the more helpers the easier it becomes and not wanting to scare helpers away but some of you may be stuck down a track marshalling an intersection for an hour at a time but maybe being stuck down there you get to see more action


could we please start a helpers list so we know exactly whos committed and what days

cheers

SKID

So are you not worrying about marshall training and the national competition rules, will it just be winging it and see how you go on the day?

Sadam_Husain wrote:So are you not worrying about marshall training and the national competition rules, will it just be winging it and see how you go on the day?

I have the rules printed out and they will be handed out to Marshall's on the day, you can read them though if you would like, they are at THIS LINK

I also have the score cards printed and a few other bits of paper with stuff on it... (about 500 pieces or paper in total)

Cheers
Reece

suzuki1k wrote:

Sadam_Husain wrote:So are you not worrying about marshall training and the national competition rules, will it just be winging it and see how you go on the day?

I have the rules printed out and they will be handed out to Marshall's on the day, you can read them though if you would like, they are at THIS LINK

I also have the score cards printed and a few other bits of paper with stuff on it... (about 500 pieces or paper in total)

Cheers
Reece

Your concerns have been noted Mr Green, but due to all the track clearing that has gone on, we seem to have forgotten about training for the marshalls, which I may point out, nobody has actually begun a list of who is actually coming to help with marshalling.

You are correct and there are quite a few rules to be reading through to do with the do's and don't's of the sport, but in my humble opinion I don't beleive we will be following them entirely.
Firstly I just don't think we will have the huge amout of marshalls required to hide them behind every tree watching for naughty things being done by the competitors and secondly we definitely don't have the budget to be buying hundereds of air horns to blast in the bush when the vehicle starts wheel spinning and as you know, if you start spinning wheels in Rallywoods then you are not going anywhere fast so its best to be setting a winch point pronto.

I believe we will manage to pull this event off sucessfully even with the lack of assistance we've seen in various areas.

Cheers

SKID