wen Morris rolled at Pukekohe, i think it was Jones stopped and got out to help him out.

Lowndes helped JC last year when he rolled the car

I was about the same the same thing, Rodney.

With Paul’s roll at Puke, Brad was getting out, and it took him a long time to get out. The marshalls and fire marshalls were there before he got out. So, I think some would still stop, but it would take a while for them to get out.

where did JC roll? i dont remember that

the darwin round last year in practice Steph

Hate to be a party pooper here Alex, but:

As admirable as the actions of drivers stopping to help looks, in practice it is a huge hindrance.
For a start, as good as the drivers are, they have little or no rescue training.
Second, they arrive at an incident full of adrenaline, and not thinking calmly.
Thirdly, they wear helmets, which hurts when you get headbutted by one, and they don’y carry a fire extinguisher.
As much as you think that it is a good thing, as a rescue professional, sometimes we have to tell the drivers to fire truck off and let us do our job.
Even as volunteers, we are willing to risk our life to save a stranger, and if the V8 drivers really want to help there is one thing we need.
We pay for all of our own safety gear, so a couple of dollars, or a team shirt for us to auction on eBay is better than 10 drivers stopping to lend a hand.

John has a very good point.
While it is a natural thing to want to help, most of the firies/rescue personnel have Fire service/CFS/State Emergency service backgrounds and so have a lot of experience in rescue.

One thing John didn’t mention is the problem as having the parked cars possibly in the way of the emergency vehicles.

As a flaggie, I’ve attended a few incidents and have learnt basically to ‘hold the fort’ until people like John arrive - which doesn’t take long at all.

We were talking about the costs involved at a meet today - particularly with the spiralling cost of fuel. A couple of ideas were for the a couple of dollars from the team entry fee to go into a fund to help subsidise equipment costs, and another for expenses incurred in volunteer work to be a tax claim in the same way as expenses incurred while doing paid work.

Still, it shows charcter in a driver. I dont care who it is who gets out to help. Even if it is bloody Tander. By helping out someone, they are runing there race, weekend and possible championship.
Though I do agree with you Stig. If you do ha to get some one out of the car, help them out in anyway in the race or pracce or qualfying it should be complusary to ge a hat, t-shirt ect. But then again, You would probbly be stuck with things from Paul Morris Motorsport every round.
If it was me driving the car, I would get out. But, I am not so it is hard for me to call.

I can certainly understand the issues of drivers potentially hindering a rescue but it is always warming to see that level of cameraderie in action. Mind you, it would be a big call to throw away a Championship…

My fondest memory of the Lowndes / Calder incident was Larry Perkins talking about the wonderful opportunity it presented for him to study HRT chassis engineering! Larry to a tee!

I would like to think that the boys would stop to help each other but as everyone above has said it’s best to leave to the pro’s.

Can you believe that accident was almost 10yrs ago………. geez