Don't get me wrong, we all do it because we enjoy it.
There is a great cameraderie, and a closeness with people you might never have met otherwise. You will have noticed, I am sure, that any marshalling team is a very diverse lot, in age, in appearance and probably in background.
We spend a lot of fairly tense time together, and get to know each other very quickly. We have a laugh... a lot of laughs, and become a very unlikely team, set against the big bad world for two weeks at the TT or Manx, and then we disperse in our different directions to lives that may never touch again.
At the bottom of Bray there are some marshals who have been there for many years and others just a couple. We welcome newbies and most of the recent ones have opted to come back to Bray the next time. I'll be back because I won the sweepstake.. thanks to Ryan F in the classic!