First off – I want to apologize to anyone who tried to come to the event and was stuck in traffic. When I put these events together – they are for everyone, to experience everything – car-culture related; oddly enough sitting in traffic is a part of the game. But I wished everyone could experience the event and take part.
Secondly as far as logistics and traffic flow:
We did our best as far as “trying to figure out how to get people to park” – but even after countless posts about no holding spots – we need everyone in and parked; people would block spaces, or do things to try and save spaces for their buddies. I get it – the point of these events is to hang with friends what not – but from the parking side of things; you saw how crazy it got – we just needed you to park.
Crazy side note: We went from a huge line at 7-9am to small spurts of cars pulling in to a huge crazy unstoppable rush at like ~12noon..
The volunteer staff (most of them) did the best they could and I appreciate all of their help – most of them quickly realized yesterday the level of stress and conflict with go through to deal with large amounts of the general public in a high stress situation.
I kept getting reports of staff just quitting out mid-shift or whatever; but the truth of the matter is – anyone who is trying to help whos efforts aren’t being noticed will eventually quit….
What caused the biggest traffic jam of the day? The staging lanes for the drag strip opened; and we were still flowing traffic in with no issues – then out of no where – someone turned the one in one out lanes into two (to the drag strip) – none in, or none out; if we had structured that better – that literal bottle neck would have changed the dynamic of the entire event. I take responsibility for not thinking that through and predicting that would happen.
The Auto-X side of the event:
Circuit Motorsports did an incredible job – setting up, running, and helping everyone have the best time possible doing auto-x. Everyone I spoke to who ran it – said they loved it and wanted to go again.
The Drag Racing side: I wish we had a bit more structure to the staging lanes and how the lines drew out – but again predicting that was a bit out of my realm.
The Food Trucks: I heard someone complain about prices – but i didn’t hear anyone complain about food – Good food, costs good money. I wish I could have eaten (at all). I hadn’t eaten from 1am and didn’t eat until 10:30pm
Grass parking always sucks. I sat at one bump for an hour and helped people make it through a dip properly.
Also I want to thank
Luis Rivera II and @Chris Agosto for jumping on the ruckus’s and acting quickly to help find the missing child as soon as we got a tip where he might be! We found him
like emoticon and that was awesome!
Also I just want to Thank all the vendors for coming out, showing up on time, and getting set up early – I know 3:30-4am is crazy for any show – but you guys saw how crazy it got and quick.
Anyways… I hope a bunch of people got to experience what the track is like, experience some motorsports, and hopefully look forward to more motorsports related events in the future (outside of v2lab stuff).
These events are about the experience, not about the money or anything like that – we want you (if you are not apart of our culture to see why we love our culture) that’s why they are set up the way they are set up. Anyways now back to the drawing boards.
This is an open thread to complaints, suggestions, hate, love, whatever..
PS: I assume more than half the people who saw me didn’t figure it out.. but i am the one who is always riding a small black bmx bike at all these events… therefore i am sore as ****.
PPS: i didn’t proof read this – because proof reading is for the weak (lol).