Into June and it was time for Event 3, Irene and I were now Full Time Marshals. We were armed with our Flags and Radio and took up our positions at the first Chicane. Great place to view from !
Meanwhile our Hero Joe was getting Suited up ready for action. Notice young Aiden in the background taking pictures of Joe's car, careful there young man you don't want to be accused of espionage and fined £50,000,000 
As usual Joe was one of the first out to set his time, the car ran well and he managed to knock more off his lap times.
Because we were new to marshalling we were a bit worried about taking pictures in case the radio went off and we had to grab the flags or pick up some cones
We did get a few good ones though check out the angle of Chris Astley's Imp, nice one matey.
At the end of the day Joe was 9th in the championship, not bad for a youngster in a £50 car.
RHOcar Track day number Two (The wet one)
RAFMSA Barkston Sprint Event 4
Into July and we had a very Wet "Robin Hood Owners Club" Track day on the Saturday before Event 4. This was a good opportunity for Joe to take our friend Jonny Radley for a blast round, here they are ready for action.
Joe and the car did well throught the day and was definately one of the fastest cars on the day, these conditions did suit the FWD Metro.
The conditions certainly did not suit the poor buggers in the "Sevens", here we see our mate Big Lee slipping and sliding his way round hardly daring to touch the throttle pedal
Some people were a bit harder on the pedal than Lee but unfortunately this was the result in most cases
Joe and Jonny did by far the most laps of the day you may be able to tell by the fact his Silver wheels are now very Brown looking !
Near the end of the day our man was getting faster and faster and was riding the kerbs nicely but on his last run he went a bit to far over the edge and.......
..............He burst the tyre
.
It was not just a little puncture either there was a hole on the inside wall the size of a 50p piece!
Never mind he can fit his spare wheels ready for tomorrows event.
Its about this point in the proceedings that our Hero Joe discovers that he did not have the locking wheel nut tool, it was at home
Oh yes. on top of that, his "Spare" set of wheels don't actually fit his car
After a 60 mile trip to get the locking tool we were ready for a drink, looks like we will have to take the wheel into Grantham tomorrow to get the tyres changed over
While we were having our breakfast somebody was getting in some "Extra Practice laps"
After Breakfast Irene and I drove to Grantham and found the only tyre place open was Krapfit, unfortunately the unhelpfull
in charge refused to swap the tyres over for us. it was a "Health and Safety" issue apparently.
In the end we had to give up and face the fact that Joe would have to use the Seat "Track car" instead.
Joe's "practice" for Event Four consisted of a few convoy laps with Billy for company.
He was quickly up to speed though and did a pretty good job in the end !
During the racing the silly people with their "Toy Planes" were at it again, this Lightning was flying right over us dangerously low as well!!
Broke our hearts when the bugger nose dived into the ground
,
Seriously though it is really irresponsible of the people to fly so close to us, if that plane had landed a few feet nearer the paddock somebody could have been killed!
"Not good"
After a brief pause in the proceedings due to the "Aviation Disaster" taking our fire tender from us,
Racing resumed and Tim Swait put on a good show with his new grippier tyres!
We did spend a lot of our time replacing this Barrel the poor thing was being clipped more than ever today!
Shame Joe did not avoid this area yesterday and he would not have punctured his tyre
At the end of the day Joe came away with top points in his class which is very good considering he has hardly driven the car very long!
He has also moved up to 5th in the championship Well done mate!
Oh yes, we seem to have got the hang of this marshalling lark!
