photograph of a guy facing the other way.

Uppity is:

"You know, I was just making a fricking comment, not an accusation. Why the hell did you get all uppity about it?"

I simply found your observation to be odd and against my experience, hence my wondering why you fealt as you did.

I've spent 250 + days per year for the last 13+ at corner stations on about 40+ American tracks and 20+ international. Car clubs, race practice, races, corporate events, IMSA, IRL, ALMS, Champ Car, F!,NASCAR, etc. I'll have 30 days at corner stations by mid May this year, and our season starts April 1 around here.

And yes, I have heard all of I mentioned above talked about. Lunch, pick up, next group passing rules, driver quality issues,etc. Are you aware of some national corner worker rules program that prohibits talking about anything else on the radio? There is certainly no national CW standard of what is allowed and what isn't, when to call a car cleared and when not, etc. All tracks are different. Some track controls allow lots of chatter, others allow virtually none.

I just found it funny that you were critical of a corner worker looking at a car and somehow felt you could tell what he was talking about in the photo. You don't know he's the last car of the group, but you assumed so in both your posts. Where did you get this from?

You don't know if he was diving erraticaly, don't know if he was smoking or if there was an odd noise coming from his car, etc. Do you know if a car in front of him has spun? An animal has entered the circuit? Debris has blown onto the raceway (BIG problem at Willow Springs), etc.

But what I found most odd is the fact that his radio is on his hip in BOTH pictures, and the headset on his head in both as well. There is no way to tell if he is cueing the mic, let alone what he is talking about. With so many different radio systems, there is just no way too tell which he is using. With so many reasons to call race control and no reason to feel he is the last car, I found your assertion he was doing something wrong odd.


Mike S