The Marshall's rant....

Spectators...Somebody loves em but its not me...Ocassionally you'll get one or two who are proper rally spectators...get to 7 stages in 1 day and know what they're doing...but oh so often they dont have a clue about summat called common sense...and to illustrate this Iv collected a few photos Iv take over time...
The photographer in the bottom left of the corner for example...this rally was incredibly dusty...infact it was probably the dustiest Iv ever been on...so common sense says sit a bit back from the stage to aviod the dust....I was sitting on a rock about 10m back and I was still getting dusty...anyway the spectator came near the beginning...and stayed till the end...and this is what he looked like after all the 4-wheel drive cars had been round....
He's gone from blue to gray!!! and Id hate to see what his camera looked like after!!! and the guy standing beside the tree he's gone a bit funny coloured as well....I mean common jus take a step back and u'll save urself from half th dust...

Another example is this:
To get this car out of the ditch the easiest when to do it is by getting on the tow rope and pulling...hard....but check out the muppet on the far left....he's pushing down on the top of the car!!!!! what's that meant to do?!?!?! use ur brain boy!

And my final pictures are ones which I think are fine examples of the average rally spectator...
They stand where ever they can looking through their view finders trying to capture that perfect photograph (which incidently will never happen, I spend most of my time on rallies laughing at spectators who are trying to capture a picture of a rally car travelling at over 60mph on a compact digital camera which takes about a second to focus and another to actually take the picture).......Or sometimes they stand in groups on the outside of the bend all leaning forward to try and see past each other...eager to catch a glimpse of the car before it blasts off back into the forest...I could go on...and tell u stories of spectators standing on the outside of bends at the end of 6th gear straights....or wanting to stand infront of the box junction...I think one day when I've marshalled loads and taken enough photos (when Im not marshalling) I might write a book..."The stupid spectator" illustrated with my own photographs....I think at least the marshalls would like me!