Marshals input to race licence?

[deadsquirrel]

At the MSVR meeting at Donington over the weekend we witnessed certain driver behaviour that was less than ideal and caused unnecessary delays/yellow flags etc to the racing.

We had a Lotus deposit the rear half of his car into our gravel trap at Coppice. Since he was grounded by his chassis, we could not move him with available manpower. Since it was last lap, there was no need to snatch.
What was surprising was the drivers reactions and behviour - he was an utterly amiable chap, but he'd never been 'off track' before. He stayed in the car until we got to him (which is good) but had floored the throttle and sunk in the gravel (which is bad). He listened to us as we tried to push him out, but we couldn't move him. As I asked him to join us on post, he turned the car off (with ignition key) and got out, putting key in his pocket (which was bad!) - I got him to put it back in the barrel. (We could not have snatched him with steering lock on!)

On post, it became clear he'd never been told how to deal with this situation (or presumably something worse).

We also had quite a few cars who were limping back to the pits (often with no chance of making it - something the drivers didn't seem to want to accept) and ended up conking out trackside or just off the track in dangerous places.

This meeting in particular had a large number of drivers who are starting out their racing and would IMO benefit the most from no more than 30 minutes in their race school program to discuss the above two issues and maybe a _few_ more similar items .

So what would we have on the list? My two for starters are:

1. What to do when you get 'stuck' off track - in gravel/tyres, etc.
2. What to do when you're car is damaged and may stop at any moment.