We study a class of timelike weakly extremal surfaces in flat Minkowski space R, characterized by the fact that they admit a C parametrization (in general not an immersion) of a specific form. We prove that if the distinguished parametrization is of class C, then the surface is regularly immersed away from a closed singular set of euclidean Hausdorff dimension at most 1 + 1/k, and that this bou...