[Johnno]

Well that would have canned yesterdays racing with us all been thrown out   thankfully we don't have a track call button on the small two lane tracks so there is considerable penalty for deslotting straight up with delays covering those listed below

• marshal not noticing the deslotted car, this inattention happens every race and isn't a joke no more 
  
• marshals putting the car back in the slot, the simplest one seems the hardest
  
• marshals putting the car in the slot backwards, and 
  
• marshals putting the car in the wrong lane and backwards, 
  
• marshals slamming the car back in the slot bloody hard..
  
• marshals on their phone, checking the screen for lap time or just chatting and not watching their corner, 
  

all points above are occurring way too much of recent, and I admit my part at times with deslotting such as yesterday, it was straight up a shocking day for me and I do hope I've gotten the deslot bug out of my system for next weeks race.

We use coloured lane dots on all tracks including the two lane tracks where marshals still stuff it, when the marshals take their sweet arse time reslotting, we call these out as a full valve grind and polish among other things, it is a dig but is also in jest and we especially say out loud when one person is prone to a simple panic urgency with marshalling, don't come off around this marshals' area as he is the main culprit.

Regardless deslotting and reslotting sucks, we all do it, even the veteran racers, as occurred yesterday for those two in our group, we do take it all in as racing incidents and throw out in-jest remarks.

I'm slowly getting people to call 'track' when they deslot so marshals and racers are aware of wayward cars. I even say that I have the tyre cleaning cloth/board on track just to avoid finger and car impacts and others are starting to say the same.