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Flaggers are getting worse all the time
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[QUOTE="oldguy, post: 812058, member: 16965"] The last couple years one of my biggest complaints in amateur racing is the quality of flaggers. I realize almost all are volunteers and I applaud them for their efforts because without them weekend racing would not occur. This being said I and my wife have spent hundreds of weekends flagging and trying to train flaggers but the quality seems to be dropping. Tonight watching the Milleville round on TV I see why. The Official AMA flaggers are even worse. The crash between Hamblin and Reed which could easily have ended either racers season to me falls solely on the flagger. At the race we were seated in a location with an unobstructed view of Reed when he went down and of course we watched him struggling to get his bike restarted. While watching I commented that the flagger was back of the lip on the uphill and the riders couldn't see him. The broadcast tonight isn't clear on whether I was correct but what I missed at the race was the flaggers reaction- [b] he abandonned his post and wandered back to look at the carnage[/b]. The next thing he did was drop his flag on the ground and start trying to pull the bikes apart. In my mind the flagger is there to protect not only the downed rider but every other rider on the track and here this idiot is pulling bikes apart. You would think that the [b]OFFICIAL AMA FLAGGER[/b] who has been placed at a critical track location would know his job. This was not one of the local hired flaggers (they only wear a Tshirt designating them as track crew) as evidenced by the uniform. [/QUOTE]
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