Miami - Airport Runway Event!!!
#31
10-11-2009, 08:45 PM
Holy crap, it was HOT today.
So many cars and not enough of me. That was crazy.
140+ cars. It was seemingly impossible to photograph this event and I hired a photographer to assist me for the day.
To all that attended, if myself or my assistant don't have photos of you and your car, I apologize to say the least. I think you can understand why and I won't even have to explain that scenario. That was insane.
Next time I'm going as a spectator and running in friend's cars. I didn't get a ride in any cars today and I referred quite a few people myself. What a bummer. lol
So many cars and not enough of me. That was crazy.
140+ cars. It was seemingly impossible to photograph this event and I hired a photographer to assist me for the day.
To all that attended, if myself or my assistant don't have photos of you and your car, I apologize to say the least. I think you can understand why and I won't even have to explain that scenario. That was insane.
Next time I'm going as a spectator and running in friend's cars. I didn't get a ride in any cars today and I referred quite a few people myself. What a bummer. lol
Last edited by Chris G; 10-11-2009 at 09:08 PM.
#33
10-11-2009, 11:15 PM
Complete fraud. STAY AWAY from anything Milemarker-1 organizes. Got there before 7AM. Did not have my first run until 10AM, my second run at 1:15PM. They have their headstart group, that runs before you 3-4 times. They have the "have to leave early" group they wave by to run 3-4 times. I came from Maryland, WHO THE FUDGE has to leave earlier than I???? No display, no electronic time taking, no printed slip, they TELL you your speed. I got nothing for my first run and 157MPH trap speed for my second when my GPS and speedo agreed on 175MPH. They told the same to the guy in front of me who had 20MPH more shown on his GPS.
No pen to write the numbers on the cars, no consessions for the drivers, no porta potee, 6 FUDGING hours on the tarmac at 100F drinking your own stale, warm water and nowhere to piss.
There is absoultely noway for anybody to run 4 times unless you are one of the cronies. I will e-mail them to refund me my money by Friday or I will open a fraud case with American Express. I will expose these MFs on every automotive board out there.
I am a bit mad. Going to SoBe now to cool off and get hammered.
No pen to write the numbers on the cars, no consessions for the drivers, no porta potee, 6 FUDGING hours on the tarmac at 100F drinking your own stale, warm water and nowhere to piss.
There is absoultely noway for anybody to run 4 times unless you are one of the cronies. I will e-mail them to refund me my money by Friday or I will open a fraud case with American Express. I will expose these MFs on every automotive board out there.
I am a bit mad. Going to SoBe now to cool off and get hammered.
What say you Chis?
I was considering bringing two cars out for this event. Now glad that I did not.
#35
10-11-2009, 11:36 PM
Complete fraud. STAY AWAY from anything Milemarker-1 organizes. Got there before 7AM. Did not have my first run until 10AM, my second run at 1:15PM. They have their headstart group, that runs before you 3-4 times. They have the "have to leave early" group they wave by to run 3-4 times. I came from Maryland, WHO THE FUDGE has to leave earlier than I???? No display, no electronic time taking, no printed slip, they TELL you your speed. I got nothing for my first run and 157MPH trap speed for my second when my GPS and speedo agreed on 175MPH. They told the same to the guy in front of me who had 20MPH more shown on his GPS.
No pen to write the numbers on the cars, no consessions for the drivers, no porta potee, 6 FUDGING hours on the tarmac at 100F drinking your own stale, warm water and nowhere to piss.
There is absoultely noway for anybody to run 4 times unless you are one of the cronies. I will e-mail them to refund me my money by Friday or I will open a fraud case with American Express. I will expose these MFs on every automotive board out there.
I am a bit mad. Going to SoBe now to cool off and get hammered.
No pen to write the numbers on the cars, no consessions for the drivers, no porta potee, 6 FUDGING hours on the tarmac at 100F drinking your own stale, warm water and nowhere to piss.
There is absoultely noway for anybody to run 4 times unless you are one of the cronies. I will e-mail them to refund me my money by Friday or I will open a fraud case with American Express. I will expose these MFs on every automotive board out there.
I am a bit mad. Going to SoBe now to cool off and get hammered.
#36
10-12-2009, 09:10 AM
Rogan actually called me last night to see my input on how I thought it ran.
There's a ton of sides to the story. It's NOT my event so I'm just stating what I felt and how I think it could have been run differently.
I feel bad for anyone that traveled from further away. I hung out with the guys from Switzer Tuning for most of the day and they drove down from Ohio. Luckily, they stayed and stuck it out until later in the day around 3-4:30 or so and had the runway all to themselves.
I have no idea why 95% of the people left early. By the end of the day anyone could have run 100 times in a row and had no line.
Other parts didn't make sense though. Some cars seemed to be cutting line and or had priority of some sort and got to run repeatedly which really irritated me trying to photograph ALL of the cars and I got the same 5 cars over and over again while the remaining 130 were sitting in line pissed off.
All in all, I definitely don't think it was terrible by any means. It was their first event, it's hard to figure in all of the variables the first time around unless you've put on an event before or apprenticed an organization that has put one on before.
They neglected some highly obvious things though like toilets at the staging area. After baking out in the sun for 10 hours and trying to not die in the heat I had to hitch a ride in a friend's car back to the nearest toilet every couple of hours which was at least a mile away.
I know they plan on putting on another event again soon and will try and fix up any flaws they had.
IMO, I think they obviously wanted quantity over quality which was highly obvious with the amount of cars in attendance, 140, which was absurd. I'd put a cap at 85-90 and just double your prices.
Everyone gets more runs and if they aren't willing to pay the price then they won't attend anyway. There are plenty of tuning companies that would love to take the spots of regular cars just to promote their vehicles.
We will see how it goes next time around. Evidently there is already another runway event set up for next month by a new organization.
From here on out there will be no shortage of events to say the least.
I'll see you guys there next time. No camera though.
- Chris
There's a ton of sides to the story. It's NOT my event so I'm just stating what I felt and how I think it could have been run differently.
I feel bad for anyone that traveled from further away. I hung out with the guys from Switzer Tuning for most of the day and they drove down from Ohio. Luckily, they stayed and stuck it out until later in the day around 3-4:30 or so and had the runway all to themselves.
I have no idea why 95% of the people left early. By the end of the day anyone could have run 100 times in a row and had no line.
Other parts didn't make sense though. Some cars seemed to be cutting line and or had priority of some sort and got to run repeatedly which really irritated me trying to photograph ALL of the cars and I got the same 5 cars over and over again while the remaining 130 were sitting in line pissed off.
All in all, I definitely don't think it was terrible by any means. It was their first event, it's hard to figure in all of the variables the first time around unless you've put on an event before or apprenticed an organization that has put one on before.
They neglected some highly obvious things though like toilets at the staging area. After baking out in the sun for 10 hours and trying to not die in the heat I had to hitch a ride in a friend's car back to the nearest toilet every couple of hours which was at least a mile away.
I know they plan on putting on another event again soon and will try and fix up any flaws they had.
IMO, I think they obviously wanted quantity over quality which was highly obvious with the amount of cars in attendance, 140, which was absurd. I'd put a cap at 85-90 and just double your prices.
Everyone gets more runs and if they aren't willing to pay the price then they won't attend anyway. There are plenty of tuning companies that would love to take the spots of regular cars just to promote their vehicles.
We will see how it goes next time around. Evidently there is already another runway event set up for next month by a new organization.
From here on out there will be no shortage of events to say the least.
I'll see you guys there next time. No camera though.
- Chris
Last edited by Chris G; 10-12-2009 at 09:13 AM.
#37
10-12-2009, 09:17 AM
Well, I did not drive the whole way. Had my family with me. So it is a 2 hour drive to the auto train in VA and then a 5 hour drive from Sanford, FL to Miami. So that is 14 hours drive total. Train plus hotel for four about $3,000 - having to buy my wifey now something nice after dinner in SoBe because she had to put up with me all pissy - Expensive!!!!
How many runs did you manage to get in before you left? Hopefully you stayed towards the later end of the day, you could have had the runway to yourself.
Everyone was gone, it was unbelievable.
#40
10-12-2009, 03:45 PM
This is the other event: TOP GUN RUN
The November 7th is an all comers event
The November 14th event is for exotics and high end sports cars. DLM should be bringing some TT Lambos as well as Heffner, and I was told Eddie Bello is attending too from the organizer of the event.
He will be using the same timing equipment as they use in the Texas Mile with the printout for top speed.
Last edited by pikemike420; 10-12-2009 at 03:46 PM. Reason: n