News: From the Chair

Training and Support Thanks to those of you who took the time to visit us at the Autosport Show – you seem to like my bulletins so I will need to think of some new topics!  Any suggestions welcome. Our #JoinJim marshal cut-out “posed” with a few celebrities – thanks to NGK for their ongoing […]

Happy New Year I hope you have all enjoyed the festivities over Christmas and New Year.  If like me you’ve eaten half your own body weight in turkey, cheese, chocolates, contributed to the bottle recycling mountain and for some reason none of my clothes now fit – daren’t try on my overalls! Any one made […]

A few reminders and announcements for this month….starting with: Social Media.  The MSA have created guidelines to assist users avoid some of the common pitfalls that can arise and to help social media to be used in a responsible way.  This is for your protection – please think twice before posting! (https://www.msauk.org/assets/msasocialmediaguidelines-6.pdf) In particular: Don’t […]

How’s the job going? Mostly this question comes from fellow marshals who I haven’t seen in a while or have not met before and I realise that the inquiry refers to my role as Chairman of the BMMC and not my employment during the week. Yes that seems to surprise some people too – the […]

Training, training, training One word that can’t be mentioned enough and an activity we should partake in as often as it’s available. Recently BARC NW ran a mid-season training event and the BRSCC NW Rescue Unit offered BMMC marshals the opportunity to watch and partake in an extrication exercise. A great hands on experience with […]

Where’s summer? We’re already more than half way through the calendar year and there’s so many more events to go!  July was a mixed bag of events and I’m not even talking about the weather. F1 came to town in July – literally in London town for F1 Live.  What an event that turned in […]

Social media – love it or hate it So there’s Instagram, Twitter and Facebook just for starters. Ten-Tenths, YouTube and Blogging – which is kind of what this is. There are various forms of Social Media in existence and new ones appearing all the time. It’s interactive, conversational and open-ended. It enables like-minded individuals to […]

A change of scenery. As many of you will know my first love of motorsport is circuit racing. Knowing I would never be able to race (without swearing and screaming inside the car with my eyes shut!) I still get the thrill of seeing a full grid of cars eagerly waiting for the lights to […]

On Easter weekend UK motorsport witnessed one of the most horrible accidents seen in recent history. Broadcast live on National television an aspiring 17 year old Billy Monger, at the start of his single seater career, was involved in a serious accident at Donington Park leaving him permanently disabled. For those who were first on […]

Last week I was away from home with work but watching with interest the comments on Social Media as the goodie bags started to arrive.  On returning home on Friday I was pleased to see that ours had also been delivered. And aren’t they great?!  A huge thank you to Eric and Colin for putting […]

A year of celebration ahead! This year the British Motorsports Marshals’ Club celebrates our 60th anniversary.  The official formation date of the club was 16 June 1957 at the Queens Hotel in Birmingham.  Originally the club was formed by representatives of various motor sports clubs with a view to making motor sport safer. We still […]

Money – that party subject that you shouldn’t talk about.  How much do you earn?  How much was your car?  What did you spend on holiday? Who wants to disclose that??!! Except money is a form of currency and for volunteers this doesn’t always mean hard cash.  Giving thanks for your support, maybe a raffle […]