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Marshals attend to the Ginetta G50 accident at Oulton Park

British GT driver Hunter Abbott was lucky to escape unhurt last Saturday when his Ginetta G50 was involved in a horrific smash at Oulton Park. Abbott owes his life to a group of dedicated volunteers and unsung heroes - Oulton Park's marshals.

Steve Roberts from Wrexham, Incident Officer at Avenue last weekend, was part of a team of marshals on the scene after Hunter's accident. Steve said: "As soon as he went off we knew it was going to be big. After the car flipped over, two marshals went up to it with fire extinguishers, whilst three others from the marshals post at Cascades also attended.

"When it was safe we ran down the hill to help them, but it was difficult to see with all the smoke, fumes and powder. The drivers' door was stuck shut and it was hard to see if he was still in there, but thankfully he was all right".

Although Steve has been a marshal for more than five years, some of Oulton Park's volunteers are much newer to the role. In fact Steve's friend, Paul Davies, was marshalling for the very first time when the accident happened, whilst two others were also new on post.

Steve added: "Since I started marshalling in 2002, I've only attended two fires and they were not on the same scale. It's not that common to have spontaneous car fires but the impact on Hunter's car caused the fuel lines to rupture.

"It was hard to see the source because of the bent metalwork but we managed to put it out efficiently.

"The whole team handled the situation brilliantly, they coped extremely well. We had a training day at Oulton Park in February and all the marshals put what they learned into practice."

11:24am Thursday 27th March 2008

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