Should I STOP?

Here’s what I would’ve done.

– Raised my hand to indicate I’m slowing and point towards the danger.
– Keep moving, I don’t want to be rammed.
– It’s a corner, so, I think generally speed wise it would be slow.

This isn’t our profession and we’re doing this for fun, so if the rest would speed pass me while I’ve slowed to indicate an accident, I’d do it. But no, i will not stop to help, we’re s’pose to stay inside our karts for our own safety.

“Stop to help or not stop to help, that is the question”

If a professional driver that carries millions of $$$ of sponsorship, stopping for help is useless. Imagine Ralf crash out and Micheal stop to help, what cost of action that Ferrari, Shell, Marlboro and etc will take onto him?

But in my-kart, no business of such going on, just purely friendly race. However stopping for help will not do any good for safty sake, that makes another stagnant kart on track that counts.

Should incident as it is, leave it to the ground crew to deal with it, remember as a driver, you have another responsibility that is to avoid another incident happen. Take order from the race admin on the flagging system.

One point I’d like to add though – if you were to stop please be sure you know how to stop your kart engine.

Could St John’s or any other institution provide training for basic first aid? Maybe this can be organised under Kelab MyKart Selangor?

If my-karters are willing there is nothing preventing having say ~3 guys with yellow flags at various points at the far ends of the track during races.. and then they can run over for their race once the race has finished. Or perhaps it’s better to make it 3 groups of 2 so that everyone has a chatting-buddy and if there’s an accident that needs help the yellow flag is still there while the other guy runs out. The “stadium” section of the track could have a yellow flag as well and there are lots of people there.

imo stopping if you already see someone else going to the accident scene would not be smart and is more likely to cause more problems than anything.

[quote=Jules]marshalls will be good but we need volunteers.[/quote]
Yeah that’s what I meant – drivers that aren’t racing in say K3 can be marshals during the K3 race. That’s how club-level racing is done in many places.

[quote=Jules]my comments on stopping is based on this scenario…..someone trapped under the kart and NO ONE IN SIGHT to help the poor driver!!![/quote]

[quote=edwynlow]I saw someone running towards Lynda[/quote]
😉

IMHO, racers should not stop at accidents. We should have ground crews available. More volunteers please. Most of the time we are stationed at the start/finish line (it took me 10 secs to get to the accident scene). We also have ppl at the corner infront of the “grand stand”. But most of the ppl there are spectators and mechanics. Need to have a proper responsibility there (yellow/green/red flags).

But since this is a club/friendly race, if accidents happen on the far side of the circuit, I think we should stop our karts safely, turn off the engine, and lend a helping hand (at least get the karts off the driver, if the case may be), put out a fire or whatever. Races can always be restarted, grid positions can also be rearranged. Help your fellow karters (if you know how).