{"id":1354,"date":"2023-10-31T19:23:57","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T19:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshals.co.uk\/southmidlands\/?p=1354"},"modified":"2023-11-14T19:58:52","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:58:52","slug":"john-newman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshals.co.uk\/southmidlands\/news\/john-newman\/","title":{"rendered":"John Newman SM1301"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>1950 &#8211; 2023<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is with great sadness that we have to announce that John Newman passed away on Thursday 2<sup>nd<\/sup> November 2023 after a short illness.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For those of you that did not know John, he and Mike Abbott will probably be best remembered as <strong>the<\/strong> flag marshalling team at Silverstone. Those were the days when we could always have at least two marshals on a flag post!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Sadly our records do not show when John joined BMMC (formerly BMRMC) but judging by his membership number it was prior to 1984.&nbsp; John could not sit and do nothing, so it was not long before he got more involved.&nbsp; In 1992 he was listed as Assistant Training Officer on the South Midlands committee. John produced and kept up to date an online set of flag training notes; probably the first online training module.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Mike first met John when he was the BRDC Chief Pits marshal and John was considered a highly rated member of the pits team. When the RAC de Belgique invited Mike to take a team of Pit Marshals to help out at the Spa 24 hours John was a key member. When Mike retired as BRDC Chief Pits John taught him how to flag. Eventually advancing years forced Mike to give up flagging and the team dissolved.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That does not mean John abandoned marshalling. John continued as a Post Chief and in 2002 qualified as an Examining Post Chief (Race on Track Assessor). Eventually John also retired from marshalling on the bank and started to qualify as a Steward and very recently he was seen stewarding from his wheel chair.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John always gave BMMC his full support. He and Cath could always be found at our Noggin &amp; Natters and annual dinners. He enjoyed a pint, and a good chat about motorsport. He was a larger than life character who will be sorely missed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>John\u2019s funeral will be held on Tuesday 28<sup>th<\/sup> November at 3.15pm at Northampton Crematorium (NN4 0JF).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Cath, Sarah Middleton and Sam Newman welcome you to join them at Peggotty\u2019s Lounge, Fosters Booth (NN12 8LB) to reminisce and remember him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The family request no flowers please but donations to Macmillan in his memory would be gratefully accepted: <a href=\"https:\/\/tributefunds.macmillan.org.uk\/In-Memory\/John-Newman\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/tributefunds.macmillan.org.uk\/In-Memory\/John-Newman\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">https:\/\/tributefunds.macmillan.org.uk\/In-Memory\/John-Newman<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>RIP John<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>1950 &#8211; 2023 It is with great sadness that we have to announce that John Newman passed away on Thursday 2nd November 2023 after a short illness. For those of you that did not know John, he and Mike Abbott will probably be best remembered as the flag marshalling team at Silverstone. Those were the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":797,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshals.co.uk\/southmidlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshals.co.uk\/southmidlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshals.co.uk\/southmidlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshals.co.uk\/southmidlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/797"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshals.co.uk\/southmidlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1354"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshals.co.uk\/southmidlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1369,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshals.co.uk\/southmidlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1354\/revisions\/1369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshals.co.uk\/southmidlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshals.co.uk\/southmidlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshals.co.uk\/southmidlands\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}