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[Gaudin98]

All the ticket set up needs is a walk through ticket tent with 4 lanes. The present system is a complete balls up. 4 widows at the end of long queues. Tell me this, where do you expect the people who have paid in the inner two rows to go, just vanish into thin air ?. No they have to fight there way out in front of the people who are trying to pay, result big delays and a total grid lock. Compound this with a rather over enthusiastic steward hounding people into 4 lanes at the top of her voice then getting mad when the queues don't move ( well they wont if they cant get out when they have paid ). Come on this is simple stuff done at other rallies with very little fuss stop trying to reinvent the wheel.

[BrianM]

Really enjoyed the event.

I left with the engine just after 6.00pm on the Monday and got straight out...

As regards to the High Vis patrol. I went home on the Sunday (as the family came that day) to return on the Monday (wearing my writs band) to be told I could not take the car on the field (as I could not produce my caravan pass). After a short (friendly) discussion I was allowed on.

The only thing I did find strange was that nobody was allowed in the beer tent without a wristband????????????

Cheers,

Brian

[plateman]

Originally Posted by BrianM

Really enjoyed the event.

I left with the engine just after 6.00pm on the Monday and got straight out...

As regards to the High Vis patrol. I went home on the Sunday (as the family came that day) to return on the Monday (wearing my writs band) to be told I could not take the car on the field (as I could not produce my caravan pass). After a short (friendly) discussion I was allowed on.

The only thing I did find strange was that nobody was allowed in the beer tent without a wristband????????????

Cheers,

Brian

I believe that this may be to do with the licencing conditions, to protect local pubs.

[Mine Explorer]

Originally Posted by BrianM

...I went home on the Sunday (as the family came that day) to return on the Monday (wearing my writs band) to be told I could not take the car on the field (as I could not produce my caravan pass). After a short (friendly) discussion I was allowed on...

Interesting, my experience this year was the same as in the past - once the security contractors can see I've got a strap on my wrist they wave me straight through without caring about the remains of the car pass. Clearly requirements can differ, I don't know what the official policy is, but in the interests of avoiding queues the faster they can get stuff on the better IMHO.

The only thing I did find strange was that nobody was allowed in the beer tent without a wristband????????????

I believe that is only in the evening, and in the past understood it was only when purchasing from the bar in the evening - ie. there was nobody on the entrance checking wrists to go into the beer tent, only to make purchases.

The rally's evening entertainments are intended for the exhibitors, as the public have theoretically gone home by then. The bar usually closes for a couple of hours from around 5 'till I think about 7 (assume it did this year as well) which I guess is to encourage the public not to hang about drinking either.

The Malpas rally usually goes one stage further with security bouncers standing by the entrance in the evenings to ensure only people with exhibitor bands are allowed in...