nick, i have to ask, don't you ever ride or walk along the backside of bir bleachers?....as stated last week,
there are NO general admission bleachers at BIR.....NONE.
I guess I just took their word for it. They said they sat in some stands to see the race and they didn't have a ticket. Maybe they're confusing what they did last year or somehow got into those small stands without a ticket. There are a **** ton of mobile homes parked just beside the bleachers with campsites, bars, ATV's etc. all between the road to the zoo and the track. I can't see whats between the road and the track, I assumed there could be some small stands somewhere in there. The last time I was in that area (2001) there were some beat up bleachers over there, I figured this was what they were talking about.
My only complaint is the procedure for getting in to the main gate required us to stand in a line that was already 20 people deep to get an effing wristband.
They had a new procedure this year. Those without a ticket (I had my reserved seat but had to purchase gen admin & camping) were directed up that road beside the gas station on the north about 1000'. Then you'd turn right and come back down 1000' and drive up to two ticket shacks. I'm guessing the 1000' (2000' total) length I had to drive was for queuing. The problem with that is, this year being it's first year with this new setup, people were pulling in and had to be told to exit the line and go around to those new booths. I'd guess next year should be a little better, unless the lines got so long they merged into eachother.
I can tell they are actively discussing the procedures and policies each year and making adjustments. Last year they scanned every single ticket in and out of the zoo (if you had to leave the main gate for whatever reason). The guy said they removed it from this year's policy because it didn't work like they figured last year.
One year they had a huge problem with sneaking people into and out of the stands (people buying say 2 reserved seats and 5 general admissions... you can sneak people in and out of the stands by going in 2, having 1 leave with 2 tix, then returning with 2 and so on), so they came up with this ticket stub policy the next year where you had to tear off the stub from your ticket and hand it to the lady on the way into the stands... and you had to pick it up on the way out of the stands... which theoretically made it impossible to sneak people into the stands.. but it caused a HUGE mess at the entrance to the stands so they never did that again.
I think the next year they eliminated general admission so it was impossible to get cheap seats and sneak into reserved (as it forced you to buy reserved seats). Since then I've never had to kick a general admission out of my seat, so it works.
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When it was time for bed at 3:15 am Sunday morning, I was sad 
Just didn't want the last night to end. 
