Re: My "Crawl" into Indian Motor-Sports! WITH PICS Sudev Sir: Firstly, thank you for taking time to read my thread. I hope you will continue following this thread and give your inputs (which is invaluable). Clarification:
Sir, you are one of the most respected person in the Indian Motor Sports circuit and your knowledge on TSD procedure & protocol cannot be doubted. UNFORTUNATELY, I cannot say the same thing about the marshals who intercepted "us" (convoy of 7 to 8 vehicles who had been affected till before the police intervention).
Since my car was the first to be stopped by the mob, I had mad the first phone call (since mobile phones were allowed) to the COC. He assured us that we would be we would be given a restart. However, 22kms down the road, when we finally intercepted by a group of marshals (read inexperienced & untrained) they instructed us to reach the next TC where a restart would be given! <Great, we thought! This meant we were back in the rally!> We reach the next TC and a BOMB is dropped on us, Marshals there are completely unaware of the adversities that we had to face and said that there was nothing that they could do and that TC WOULD BE INCLUDED AS APART OF THE TABULATION! <There goes the Rally flying out the other window> We decided to make up for lost time and continue and finish the Rally! We did! On arrival we gave a gave in our appeal! But our appeal was dismissed on baseless grounds <Apparently, we were supposed to WAIT at the place where we were first stopped and a team of Marshals were supposed to come there and give us a restart> of the 7 vehicles in our convoy 5 of us were not given a restart!
Basically, we were fighting for a lost cause and none of the officials willing to do anything about the situation that had cropped up primarily due to their negligence! |