Respect from a Marshal at Brands Hatch, 21st April 2007:

When I received my timetable for Brands Hatch I had a quick look down and saw the 2CV race. When I saw it was for 2 hours I thought about pulling out of the meeting. Well we are short on numbers on the bank and I thought I could not do this to my fellow marshals. I had previously only marshaled 1 2CV race before, and not from one of the better posts...

By the end of practice myself and the other marshals on post 4a, the one with the big gravel trap at the bottom of Paddock, were left wanting more. We all enjoyed the sight of a pack of 2CV's coming round Paddock Hill with some strange lines.

Come the race we could not believe how close and clean the racing was. We had two visitors to our lovelly beach, car 12 whose bonnet decided that across the screen was best and car 59 who was in 3rd place at the time. The 2 hours passed by so quickly. I will be looking out for this race again next year and will certainly marshal more 2CV races.

Thanks for a great race and being a friendly bunch of competitors.

Alan Vant
1.5.2007