ShaunM wrote:I can understand limiting "free entry tickets" so they make money but limiting space for display cars is rubbish.
I see what you mean, but the stands are arranged based on the expected level of interest from each club. In our case, it looks like Bibs might have judged it just right based on the interest in this thread.
I'm not sure of our track record at this event so can't comment much beyond last year, which I did attend - we had approx 25 cars, lured in by the parade lap offered for the Elan's 25th birthday; if in other years we have struggled to fill the space, there's nothing worse than seeing a club stand with big gaps that's simply trying to occupy space. I've seen that happen with a couple of Vauxhall clubs and it isn't good for the visitors. Remembering that the paying visitors to the event are the ones generating its funding, the free tickets help to bring more cars in to look at.
I reckon if we can say we want more (say 30, 40 or 50) places next year and can show we have the demand then we'll get the stand layout juggled to accommodate us, but if we have 10-15 cars committing to each day, the organisers aren't realistically going to do it.
Perhaps we should run this thread much earlier next year, if (before 2-3 months to go) we have more demand, we can stretch our space a bit.
In the end, I'm taking advice from Bibs that there is space for 20 cars, I haven't measured the pitch and have no layout in mind. 20 might not seem a squeeze when we get there!
I'll post up the list I'm running in Excel - it's much clearer and shows we have about 17/18 cars on Sunday now, so there are two spaces remaining anyway, I suspect if anyone new was interested in attending, they would probably have registered by now.
