Went to the FOS on saturday and arrived to find the parking marshalls decidedly thick and unhelpful. We had parking in gate 1 and were told 4 different directions to go by four concecutive marshalls while we were driving across a field with other cars parking at will all over the place.

Finally arrived at the gate with piss temperature of about 70 we were then told by another marshall that unless we had 4WD we weren't going to be able to make it into the field because it was a bit muddy. We were all in my uncles Audi S5. And whilst it isn't a range rover you would have thought that someone wanting to get involved with the bloody FOS would be able to realise that Audi are pretty big in the whole 4WD thing, and therefore assumed that a reasonably high end model like this would have it.

Then on the way home after a brilliant day we were following a big double decker bus down this road when it went through a little checkpoint manned by some 17yr old fkwit who apparently was only allowed to let buses through and that all cars had to go through an adjacent field for 50 yards before joining back onto the original fking road further on. Now what the merry fk was that all about?!! The car ended up caked in mud for nothing!!! The only thing that stopped the piss temp reaching 100 was a nice maserati gran tourismo ended up infront of us and soothed our fevered brows while he was struggling to make progress through the fking field to rejoin the road again as well.

Fantastic day out, shocklingly thick marshalls though.

Cool Story Bro etc. Could have put more expletives in i admit.

meh, firstly worst I went to FOS in My uncles S5 post EVAAAAAR

And you got to go to FOS and I didnt so I have absolutely no sympathy for you.

Quattro doesnt give you ground clearance when you hit a boggy bit and beach the car - no doubt you'd have given him a right "ticking off" for letting you into an area where your car couldnt cope.


The whole reason I stopped buying Audis after decades of continuous multiple ownership- because the idiot brigade have started buying them - you have just confirmed that I was right to make that choice.

0/10.

In fairness to the Marshall's they do have to contend with some pretty selfish so and so's out there.

At least I didn't see people nearly coming to blows like I saw last year !.

Have you ever tried sqeezing a quart into a pint pot?
Cut em some slack.
Have some patience.

Students, paid a pittance, told to do a job. If they were petrolheads, they'd be inside watching.

Having seen one of our lady marshalls being called a stupid, f******g bh for not allowing a member of the public to cross the hillclimb whilst it was live, I had to dig hard to find my customer service smile. Goodwood eh, all the marshalls are dheads as usual....

Exactly what I was thinking .

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We found the marshalls nothing but helpful (as always, I may add) across the four days.

Yep, aside from the fairly redundant ones waving you along to follow the line of cars, which was pretty obvious, they seemed generally helpful and friendly.
On the way out on Friday, one of them even stopped a line of traffic for me when I cocked up and ended up somewhere I didn't want to be, and I was back on my way.

That's not you on that stty little rice rocket with your predator body armour on is it? if so i am amazed at your ability to call me a member of the idiot brigade Could have been worse tbh we could have gone in dads RS5 instead.

Totally Agree

I wouldn't worry too much, Will has a history of making himself look like an arse while taking pops at the cars people own or drive when it is a total irrelevance to the point being discussed.