ah i forgot that other brooklands one thats not AI is it?dave said:i only know of one non AI show that caters for all tastes of fiats, thats mitcar
ah i forgot that other brooklands one thats not AI is it?dave said:i only know of one non AI show that caters for all tastes of fiats, thats mitcar
"Oh, young blood, must poke long haired bearded one with lolly, stand around making beaver impressions then scuttle to the 500"
centaur said:My photos from the event are now up in my gallery in its own album, if anyone wants to have a butchers.
sammiboo said:Hi Chris
I agree with what others have said, I also feel I need to address a couple of things that have been mentioned by other clubs.
I do appreciate that we are invited as forum to these venues, like the clubs. But A few of club members mainly from the fiat and alfa side of things feel like they are second class against the lambos and Ferraris. I agree these are top class cars, the number of fiats and alphas that attend really do out number the higher market cars. Like i said these are concerns from other club members not just that of this forum.
Also I emailed Phil to ask him for a map - he didnt bother sending me one. When I complained on the day, he said "well its irrelavent now isnt it"
When our members came they didnt have a clue where we were supposed to be and I couldnt tell them either, it felt like a bit of a "whatever" atittude.
Also there was no mention of "club cards" as we are not a club we dont have club cards, but everyone of us were being asked for our club cards, some of our members thought they werent going to be allowed in.
What were the "clubcards" needed for? And why wasnt we told that we needed them - we havent needed them at any other event, or gaydon itself last year?
Any input would be much appreicated
sammi
sammiboo said:Hi Chris
What were the "clubcards" needed for? And why wasnt we told that we needed them - we havent needed them at any other event, or gaydon itself last year?
sammi
SchooweeNick said:where's the gallery?
Pics to post.
sammiboo said:I am sure that the others can back me up on here - even whenn they said they were FIAT FORUM on the gates they still said wheres your clubcard etc?!
sammiboo said:I am sure that the others can back me up on here - even whenn they said they were FIAT FORUM on the gates they still said wheres your clubcard etc?!
sportingsmissus said:Me, Frank & Gaz were first FIAT Forum people their and a woman and a bloke on the gate said what do you mean you dont have a membership card? we were like well theres a load of us to turn up so she just said well ill take your money now and will sort it after
Jai said:whilst i acknowledge the task of organising 3 major and numerous smaller events around the year and country is a complex one, it would appear that time and again, AI have not filtered down to the staff they use at local venues, that this is an Italian cars event, as you point out from hypercar to beat up hack, and as such the sniffy attitude received on entry, from staff who are in effect on the day, representing your publication, is unwelcome, condescending and demeaning. i'd estimate close to half the cars on the day were from the fiat end of the spectrum, at maybe 2 people per car, thats a lot of revenue for being treated second class within 10 seconds of arrival.
it reinforces the view that many hold, autoitalia caters for the lancias/alfas/maseratis/lambos/ferraris end of the market, and as much as possible ignores the fiat end. i wonder if the ferrari/lambo/et al organisers were are left just as much in the dark as us leading up to the event? or do the benefits of getting 10-20 owners to bring there cars in, outweigh 2-300?
Guishnu said:To answer some of your questions, there were only 4 AI staff at this event, the rest were event staff from Gaydon. If there was an issue there, i will adress that for next year.