see I've never really understood why this is so hard to do.

surely you only actually need one more marshall.

ie.

start of the day they all get sent out to their positions.  after 2 hours say.  a new marshall is sent to the uplift.  the marhall at the uplift gets on the uplift and relieves the guy at the top, he/she then walks down the track to replace the marshall there, who walks down to replace the next marshall.  Until the marshall at the finish walks up to the guy at the uplift and the whole thing rotates again.

not that hard is it? or am I missing something. 

No marshall points are ever unattended, and no one gets stuck anywhere dull or exposed for a whole day.

I can't see myself marshalling any time soon as I can afford to race and would rather race, however I'd be MUCh more inclined TO marshall if there was a rotation like Col suggests.

Whenever i ran the marshaling there was always rotation provided enough marshals were supplied ,Although this does make who got what radio and who wants what for dinner a nightmare lol (always gurantee one person takes the others flags and so on ....

at the dragons, i move marshalls as much as i can this is usually every 1.5-2 hrs.

 

what i mean is that they are moved from points to keep people motivated.