DW,
Perfectly understand the need to keep everyone together on the same camp site etc. And I think it just goes to show the superior quality of the whole event if (and lets face it, it's pretty much all of us) people are happy to pay extra if it's the difference between going or not going. The "bloated plutocrats" and "crypto-capitalist bastards" and may I add... "can't organise a p*ss up at Le Mans f*ckwits" at MRI know this of course.
...Always up for a bit of MRI bashing...
I've been one of the "poor saps" that BigH speaks of, and whilst I was happy at the time of booking to pay the extra for the notion of securing tickets after stupidly leaving it quite late... it wasn't the price that was the problem. If they had delivered what they said we had paid for, then fine, but they didn't. No, No, No, No...
In most lines of work, mistakes can be forgiven, circumstances sometimes are unavoidable, but gross incompetence deserves all the hot metal a .45 can deliver.
If you charge people £50 each to get into a bar for what is generally as big a drinking weekend as it is racing weekend... you'd have to be some top flight dumb arse mother f*cker to not get enough beer in... and to f*ck up so badly that it only lasts an hour of a 24 hour race. I can only assume the person in charge of beer supplies was a T-Total monk who had been told to expect a few people who like a little tipple on a nice day...
How hard is it to understand "These guys all drink like fish when they come to Le Mans, so as we've sold 5000 tickets, we'd best purchase 50,000 cans on a sale or return basis"
Jesus... I'm not even in the Bar/Catering/hospitality industry, I've only been to Le Mans twice and yet this little gem came to me without to much effort!!!
nuff said.
