May I have your attention please...
I can finally say I will be joining the Race Control staff of the IZOD IndyCar & Firestone Indy Lights Series as Operations Communicator, talking to the teams, participants, pit lane officials and pace car. My two year "exile" from motorsports officiating is over.
For those of you who followed this blog who remember one of the final posts regarding Sir Walter Raleigh's trip to the new world, I now know exactly what he meant and how he must have felt. Land Ho!
Although I will no longer be on the Land Line for the series, I will be attending all the Marshals' meetings and overseeing all the Marshals' activities in regard to the road and street courses. It will become a growing work in progress as the season goes along. One of my marching orders is to continue to grow the relationship between IndyCar Race Control and the volunteer F&C Marshal corps nationwide.
So I will be off to the Barber Motorsports Park in Alabama the third week of February for the open test session, and then on to Sao Paulo, St. Pete, Barber, dear ol' Long Beach and so on. I'm not sure what my limitation may be yet with this blog, but it's shaping up to be an interesting year!
Thanks and God Bless! I wonder if the teams will like to hear Mark Knopfler between sessions?
JHS
