Parking Marshall Muppets
Discussion
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 f
kwit 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.
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 f
kwit 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.
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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.
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R300will said:
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.
Fantastic day out, shocklingly thick marshalls though.
Why would the average 17 year old kid employed to wave cars through a car park on about tuppence an hour, have the faintest idea that Audi S5 is a 4 wheel drive?Fantastic day out, shocklingly thick
marshalls though.Maybe they were following instructions from the Goodwood hierarchy??
I'll offer a bit of balance on this subject. I arrived at Gate 1 in the TVR on Saturday with the correct badges on display to be told the car park was not in use due to damage to it on Friday. I was then asked to drive a further 400 yards up the road to car park 8 where parking had been arranged for GRRC members; all in nicely spoken and apologetic English. Arriving at car park 8 the young guy at the entrance asked me to follow the cars in front to the GRRC parking area. I declined and pointed out the ground clearance and asked if I could park at the top of the field next to a couple of other cars? "Not a problem" was the immediate response.
Give and take I guess on the marshalls but I've never had an issue with them at all.
Give and take I guess on the marshalls but I've never had an issue with them at all.
CivicMan said:
R300will said:
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.
Fantastic day out, shocklingly thick marshalls though.
Why would the average 17 year old kid employed to wave cars through a car park on about tuppence an hour, have the faintest idea that Audi S5 is a 4 wheel drive?Fantastic day out, shocklingly thick
marshalls though.Maybe they were following instructions from the Goodwood hierarchy??
And imagine the horror at having to get Uncle's car a bit muddy!
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....
Having seen one of our lady marshalls being called a stupid, f******g b
h 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....
. We arrived after midnight on friday without any idea on which campsite we had to stay because the tickets did not arrive in time. After a 450 mile drive in a TVR I was not looking forward to start ploughing through a field in the rain at night but the marshalls allowed us to stay on a special RAC parking. I expected for nobody to care that we had no clue where to go but I was positively surprised on how helpfull, friendly and polite they were.
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.
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.
hman said:
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.
That's not you on that sAnd 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.
tty 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. 
RaeB said:
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....
No not all marshalls. The ones in the actual grounds were very helpful and polite, but the parking ones seemed to have differing opinions on where gate 1 was and whether we would be safe in crossing a slightly muddy field which we obviously were if we could see an old 80's 911 managing......just. Having seen one of our lady marshalls being called a stupid, f******g b
h 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....So my point basically is marshalls in the grounds were great and i have no problems with that, parking marshalls could do better. Or at least have some knowledge of where the parking gates were, especially for the GRRC.
R300will said:
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.
Did Daddy let you play on the computer again?? tty 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. 
I'm pretty sure that if your Uncle and or Dad read your posts they would be cringing inside
- if this is the way you go about your daily communications then you must provide a source of constant embarrassment for them.Ps. the bike is a Beta - made in Italy - not the far east
hman said:
R300will said:
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.
Did Daddy let you play on the computer again?? tty 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. I'm pretty sure that if your Uncle and or Dad read your posts they would be cringing inside
- if this is the way you go about your daily communications then you must provide a source of constant embarrassment for them.Ps. the bike is a Beta - made in Italy - not the far east
hman said:
R300will said:
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.
Did Daddy let you play on the computer again?? tty 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. I'm pretty sure that if your Uncle and or Dad read your posts they would be cringing inside
- if this is the way you go about your daily communications then you must provide a source of constant embarrassment for them.Ps. the bike is a Beta - made in Italy - not the far east
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