Why should Nerang have to come up with measures? Maybe the ADULTS here should take some responsibility and not be immature morons!
Clearly I agree Bert. However, people will always be people. It happens every year. If you dont rock up 4hrs before the "Approved time" and send children under and through the fences to strategically place shades without technically "setting them up", then scale the fences and run like an immature moron to get into the precinct, you wont find space left to put a shade up. Like I said, many people try to do the right thing here and line up at the gate with the misguided belief that by doing that they would be treated fairly. How wrong these people are, you line up with the others who try to do the right thing only to see swarms of people pouring over the fences the second the gate is opened. People do it, because those running the event
let them do it. Some (I wont name them but they know who they are) clubs even plan this strategically, with a large group of them setting up in the same place between turns 1 and 3 every year. They get in there WELL before anyone could by doing the right thing. It is Nerang that is hosting the event, it is Nerang that needs to resolve the problem. Lets talk about the Nerang club members who laughed in the faces of people who tried to bring up the issue with them directly on the day last time if you want to talk about immature morons shall we?
I dont have any complaints with the host club having an area set aside for them. But it adds to the problem, when this is not made known and people see other people inside the precinct busy setting up shades before the stated time and cant figure out what is going on. Put the host club shades up earlier in the week so everyone can see it.
People are always going to read between the lines with rules. If they are not well defined, people come up with more inventive ways to circumvent them without breaking them. I think that is it very poor form when parents bringing their youngsters to this event for the first time, have to wait between moto's in the tiny bit of shade they can find behind a dumpster behind the canteen because you have no chance of putting a shade up anywhere within the precinct unless you are prepared to get there at 4am on Friday and climb fences
One simple fix is to not permit people to climb over or through the fences!
Clearly state that people can only enter the precinct throught the gates! How hard would that be to write on the flyer? Then take action against those who do. Make it known they will be banned from the precinct, or race points taken off any recognised riders or parents of riders. Something like that. Make that clearly known, and people will do the right thing. Believe it or not, most people want to do the right thing! But each year, more people see what you have to do to actually be able to set a shade up inside the track area, so more and more people do what they
have to do because the responsible way to do it, is actually the Wrong way.
Another thing that would help, is to Figure out how many 3x3 shades can safely fit in the area, and give each one a registered/numbered tag as it comes through the front gate. Then cut it off when the max number is reached. Then kick anyone out who sets up a shade without bringing it through the front gate. No disputes. You could even pre-allocate spots if you want to go that far, club by club. That way people will share with others from their club. Most are happy to do that. There would be no added cost with something like that. But seriously?
Anything is better that what Nerang club does, which is
Nothing.
Crowd control and management is a massive part of any large event. But at this event it really is an
epic failure.
