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I am still in the que waiting
For next year? 😂
Queue. 😂 funny comment though. You still fixing it?
I got stuck in the cue
HOW 😭😭😭😭
Q you e you e
Might be an opportunity for a new shirt: “Shedfest 2024, I got in”
I didn't even try to get a ticket, but I would buy the t-shirt for the fun of it 😂
@Mb47836 Too soon 🤣🤣
Sold exclusively in shedfest 2024 😂
do another "i didn't get in" version too, that'll look hilarious at next year's shedfest
@@Stray713 that'd be a good idea just not to rub salt in the wound lol
Travelled 2+ hours, queued 2+ hours, pissed in a bush and went home 👍🏽
Better than most of the dates that I go on.
Ive had worse days out to be fair.
And paid for the privilege 😢
😂😂😂
I drove just over 200 miles to get there, got there on time, got in fine, had a great time and left at the end on time and drove 200 miles back time. Had a great time! Xx
Hold it at bath and west showground next year Alex and all will be well. Multiple entrances and exits, cafes on site, toilet blocks dotted around and camping fields for a full weekend of shedfest 2025!!!!!!!! C’mon! Bands and bbqs stuff in the evenings would be great addition
Cracking idea 👌
Hold a car show at a venue nowhere near any major population centres, and at least 45 minutes from the nearest motorway, with no train stations nearby either.
Personally, if you want to hold something like this with easy transport links and that can handle a lot of cars, Stoneleigh Park would make a better bet. Sits between 2 junctions of the A42, < 15 minutes from the M40, 20 minutes from the M6.
Bath & West is a good shout actually!
Ill be there for shedfest2025 and i agree with this!
If not newark Showground is a good shout. Similar setup and is setup to being flexed up and down depending on capacity.
Truckfest Lincoln was a disaster too so don’t beat yourself up too much, just move on from it and come back stronger and wiser next year 👍🏼
A disaster is an understatement for truck fest lol. 😂. Sending people to multiple gate to only be turn away, and be told to go to a different one. People literally queueing for so long, they had to sleep in their car, on the side of the road... It was a fking joke lol. I won't go next year..
Watch Chris Allen - The Professional Struggler (youtuber, lorry mechanic), he recorded it, it was a joke.
Mate, when has Truckfest ever gone smoothly 😂
Seriously though, there seems to be lack of planning for events lately 🤔
In France we had the Merguez Tuning Show from the french TH-cam channel Vilebrequin. 50.000 people in their own cars rushing towards the Magny Cours track. All the villages around were crowded, the roads were a mess, the lines for any service were insane...
It's the cost of success. 😅
In Denmark we have similar events, all start with queue 3-4 hours getting to site - its expected for popular events I think. But hopefully better logistics can be made for next year, validating tickets for so many ppl and parking is a mess 🤓
@@MrZimmaframe I was driving from Scunthorpe back to Newark on the Friday afternoon - I'm glad I wasn't driving the other way!
In a weird "small world" kind of way, I'm currently doing up a rotten mega-mileage ex-taxi in a workshop that's directly over the road from Chris Allen's yard.
Made it to Shedfest after 3 hours stuck in traffic 😂😂 gutted I didn’t get to meet you all hopefully meet you at the next one.
I live 5 miles away, and general consensus was the single entrance, the lack of efficient parking and far bigger event than Mallory could facilitate.
as a wheelchair user, queued for 4 hours. Both parents took day off, I paid for overnight stay nearby. Couldn’t enter event due to incident. My first ever car event didn’t go as planned hold out your hand was really looking forward to meeting you all I’ve followed you guys for several years and I was utterly disappointed.
Refund
Give this guy his money back
@@Rich-fr2yvI'm sure they will because they literally mentioned refunds in the podcast. 8:00
@@KoVLiberty He didnt read out the bit that said offering refunds, just answering emails 🤣
@@KoVLiberty I don't remember them saying anything about refunds, but I trust that they will give back the money
Arrived at the what3words location at 10:30 as specifically requested and then spent 2 and a half hours sat in traffic (and we weren't even the worst affected)! In hindsight, funneling everyone to a single entrance was a collosal fuck-up and it could and should have been managed much better. Having said that, my mate and I did have a good time looking at everyones pride and joy, we got to see you guys and I personally had a great time chatting with JayEmm.
Maybe next time, a bigger venue and a company actually well-versed in traffic management should be prioritised!
Half ten???? You sleep in or something?
@@paulmullan6893 Could have arrived earlier than that, but the email specifically said don't as you would be turned away.
Wouldn't have mattered either way considering the terrible traffic management.
The "traffic management" was a f**k up, send everyone to a W3W location and hope it all works out. #shitfest
The town had stand still traffic for hours.
If you had ignored the emails and just turned up at Mallory park there wouldn't have been any queues
We arrived at the w3w location for 09:30 (noting the instruction not to be there before 09:30), and were lucky enough to be amongst the first 100-200 spectators immediately parked and in the foot queue for the gates. I feel so bad for those who came along even a little bit later. The mud slalom to get the car onsite was an expected challenge, though.
JayEmm is a cool guy
So happy to see you supporting Crohns and Colitis . My daughter has Crohns disease and it needs many more people to know about this horrible debilitating disease that no one dares to talk about POO.
1.5 hours journey, 2.5 hours in traffic, car left in random town, 45 minute walk
So first it's the shit box appreciation society and now it's the shit show appreciation society?
Interesting omission of "refunds" when reading out your statement
Of course, they need to try and repay their sugar daddy who's been funding their lavish spending on buying a million cars to never fix so giving out refunds is a no go. They're shooting themselves in the foot a lot recently
@@King_Earsdiabetes
Here's a tip for anyone who wants to do a big event; Let it grow GRADUALLY. That you can go from 300 people to 2000 people doesn't mean you should. Let alone from 3000 to 10.000.
Better luck next year folks!
How do you limit it without disappointing thousands of people ? You cant. At the end of the day management at Mallory Park got it wrong. Easy to say after the event but they should have realised that more cars would turn up than on a “normal” event. Lessons learnt, hopefully.
@@amazulu3401 people will easily accept that, not so much the traffic chaos. 5000 would have been enough, more next time. It was still sold out anyway.
@amazulu3401 I don't know them or the location. Just some ideas: besidse main area, prime close parking lots are heralded by a few lot managers that control who gets in. The rental or daily driver that is unremarkable SHOULD if possible also have a place to park, but maybe further away. maybe they can deal with a grass/dirt lot. Next, provide benefits to people coming by public transport or walking because they could be taking up spots with their daily . A bus ticket slip or e-ticket is somewhat trackable. Make people want to avoid the headache of parking and give them a reward for easing traffic flow. Not some lame shit like a 50£ gift card but like a nice set of continental summer tyres, whatever. You have sponsors literally who would love to provide these prizes for the fans while getting good PR... etc so many other ideas. Not to take anythign away from the event. Shit is hard to put on and you learn from every one and do better for the next.
Not going to retire by time his 30 with that advise is he😂😂😂
Or just grab as much money as you can whilst you’re popular?
Sitting in traffic 4 hours pissing in bushes 16k tickets sold to a venue that holds 12k sounds like shitfist 2024 to me
Shitfist 🤣 I wouldn't Google that people
@King_Ears you've been commenting shi on all these comments lmao 😂
I was one of the people who had to turn round but I was as upset for you as I was myself. Shit happens mate - don't let it eat you up.
Came with my 4 year old daughter, and gutted that after the journey and then 2.5 hours queuing we ended up a mile away but not moving an inch in 20 minutes.
Had to give her a break so went to a pub (Wentworth Arms). A bunch of nice cars there, and almost everyone had Shedfest tickets.
Thank you to all the people who tried to get in - I was amazed at how chilled and courteous everyone on the road was, even after waiting so long. If only everyone on the road behaved that well 👍
the only thing I regret is the fact that I lost 2-3h just trying to get there, after 2 h we parked up our cars and started walking for another 40 mins or so, the vibe at shedfest was quite good, lovley people and alot of cars with character , another part I didn t like was the que to autocar alex stand to buy merch and stuff, I really wanted to get a little something for one of the locals we have met when we parked our car and he let us use his toilet lol ( we told him we were from Birmingham also hahaha ) but besides that it was quite cool !
You ever just feel like Rory speaks a bit like a politician, never gets to the point and never admits responsibility for anything?
I can't stand him. Wish he'd stayed behind the camera so we didn't have to listen to his dumbass spoilt self
Well to be fair the responsibility isn’t his in this instance. Yes, alex ans rory are the face of the event, but the organisation was by petrol headonism and Malory park.
I spent £50 on 2 tickets for me and my dad to go on our motorbikes and they didn't even scan them, other bikers weren't checked for a ticket either, as for access....my goodness the British transport museum in gaydon was far better, didn't have to walk so much and could leave when I wanted but at Mallory Park had to get the marshalls to escort me and my dad out as we had to get to wales
We saw a gate that you could go through without needing to show any tickets whatsoever!
To be honest mate it wasn't really hosted for bikes was it?
@@adamb2544 last year I got sent the wrong ticket and the marshalls absolutely refused to let me in as opposed to this year when they were like yeah just go in
@@adamb2544the main promoter is trying his best to push bike content...
Me and my son got to the event after a 5hr drive (3 in traffic :p) but had a great time once we got there - Thank you all for hosting an amazing event!
I got my ticket early. Left Farnborough at 7.15am. got to shedfest about 9.45 and was parked up in the show by 10. We had an absolutely amazing day. Thank you all
A lot of gardens got a good watering that day which I am sure the residents appreciate and would love to return the favour
Thank you for donating to Chrons and Colitis charity, i was diagnosed with chrons 5 years ago after my doctor told me it was just a viral infection i had 🤦🏻 the hospital later said I was hours from losing my bowel after my dad carried me into the hospital! Im currently taking regular meds and managed to stabilise more but only ever a second away from shitting myself and going back to hospital. So thanks for supporting a brilliant charity!! ❤️
All the best to your health man, big up
I made it in for my first ever car show with my son. His mum won’t let me see him anywhere near as much as she should, but we met the 3 of you and you all were nothing short of gents.
3 lovely blokes, who are genuinely salt of the earth people. I hope the enthusiasm you have for cars rubs off on him.
Thank you for putting on such a wicked show.
No disrespect, but I didn't buy a ticket or attend because it did seemed destined to be a bit of a flop. Event management is no joke...
maybe as well, don't sell as many tickets next time. seems too many showed up, if its "sold out", its sold out.
yup, if they sold 16,000 tickets for 12,500 venue, those extra 3500 extra probably impacted it the most. Its not something youll get a lot of no shows or people that only stay for an hour for, overselling was silly, in a venue that with all the cars probably should have been more like 8000
One of the major failures around the 'fest farce, was that refunds were only mentioned on the petrolhedonism IG stream and they were only open for a short time. There was no update on the site where people actually bought the tickets from, which is where it should have been. People don't read every social media platform to find out what's going on, they go to the places they went to in the first place to find information. I understand that people are human, and communication is always the thing people complain about around events, but it's fairly basic that you keep comms in the same place so everyone can easily follow what's going on.
I agree! I feel like this is petrolhedonism’s job so it should have been better communicated better and really as event organisers they should have know that getting everyone in one entrance was a stupid idea
Tbf that standard practice for a lot of smaller scale events... it give them time decide a split over who owes what back.
petrolheadonism should be dropped. this was such a shitshow...he looked like a beginner
@@thebunnydiaries it's also the fact that at no point were 'refunds' mentioned even once in this 1.5hour long podcast. they know what they're doing. these lads are complicit
@@d.b.cooper1100% Rorys politician style damage controlling made me nauseous
Hey guys my show ticket was a xmas gift so my wife daughter and my self were in early and it was a great day made a memory for me at 62 cheers keep up the good work thanks Steve
As I have said elsewhere I don't blame you guys at all but petrol headonism and Mallory park have a lot to learn. I used to work events and event planning for multi-thousand events on the medical side but was involved too with the main event planning including traffic and route management as we needed to get ambo's out and other services in etc. I think Mallory park need to learn to say no, it is a rural track with no main artery access they need to be realistic, just from looking on a map you can see it wouldn't work for traffic flow but if they say yes I don't blame PH fully. On the other side, the event plan should have covered this fully and noticed this ticking time bomb months in advance, if PH don't have experience in traffic management, outsource it to someone competent who does, you wouldn't have your own security and medical plan so why your own traffic plan. Please don't take this as an attack on you or PH just some advice and insight.
Exactly! Well said!
Shed fest!
What went wrong and why from someone that walked 2.4 miles!
We were all told not to arrive before 10.30! The show starts at 11.30.
We were all told to use one single entrance!
The what3words was 2.2 miles away from the actual entrance of the show!
People were parking as soon as they enter, meaning people could only enter at the speed one person could park! Having people parking on 3 or 4 rows would of meant people could of entered 3 or 4 times faster
No one walked down giving people an update!
No one came down with bottles of water! No one came down with Water for the cars, this was called shed fest for a reason, cars breaking down with to be expected.
No staff that ran the event left the entrance! So that had no idea that we was queueing back at the towns High Street, we where parked outside wild rose tattoo shop for over an hour and we parked up and walked, as it said it was only 0.2 miles to the what3words location, so it was only a 8 minute walk, we we’d of known it was going to be an hour walk we’d not of done it.
Not one person thought to check social media! I find this incredibly hard to believe considering all of these people make their living through social media
No one thought that cars might brake down! Considering it’s shed fest what was they expecting? Why didn’t they have a breakdown Team to help people?
Why didn’t they have anyone to pull people out of the mud when they told everyone to park on grass after it had been raining two days prior? People were really stuck in cars were incredibly dirty.
Petrol heads deserve all of the hate! And Alex should not work with them!
Why didn’t Alexis Team read the instructions? if they had read the instructions that the event organiser gave they would’ve seen that it was a disaster waiting to happen! The fact they did not read that shows that they didn’t care. Getting everyone to enter the same entrance with never going to work, especially trying to get 10,000 people through one gate in an hour
I’m sure they will learn from their mistakes.
As someone that didn't get in. We live 45 mins away and we were in the car for 5 hrs. Understand that it was not your fault. You can't control the fact there was an accident but as constructive criticism.
1. There were no updates on any socials that were promised. You should have known there was a problem well before 2pm. We were queuing from well before lunch.
2. The directions advised a single destination for parking but once the issue has arisen either the entrance should have been changed or communication should have gone out.
3. The number of people 11k would have been amazing but the location. Coming from the area. Can't handle that kind of flow or size. It felt in hindsight about the organizers (not you guys) pushing ticket sales.
Better venue next year boys. Im think maybe donington park. They host download festival, so have a lot of experience with big events.
Another thing to note. Most big events have multiple ways to get in and out. Mallory Park only has one entrance and exit so it's just gridlock with people trying to get in and people giving up and turning around.
Mallory park has more than one entrance and exit, they chose to only use one
@@thebunnydiaries petrolheadonism completely messed up. He needs to drop them, his excuse was sad
I would like to share just how annoyed we were attending Shedfest.
An absolute ridiculous layout for all attendees to arrive, seriously, how was 11'000 people suppose to arrive at the same place at the same time. We were told not to arrive early, so upon trying to arrive at the correct time along with potentially 11'000 other vehicles, it was complete gridlock for many hours.
When we finally got in, more than 4.5hrs after arriving in the area & 6hrs from leaving home, we hear Alex saying how happy he was he'd caused mayem on the roads, with no care that we had queued up all that time, most of the Show Cars had already left, I only know this from watching some vids from Shedfest on TH-cam later on that night & the next day!
As it happens, we just about made it around the Circuit, rushing around, not having time to give any one Car the notice it deserved & trying to see the few Show Cars which hadn't left & gone home already before we got booted out at the end ourselves.
A total cock-up.
Yes, we got a full refund, but we would've rather had a fantastic day, as planned.
gota admit, being stuck in traffic for 3 hours was a nightmare in that heat but it was an amazing day out, shame i dident meet the guys in person but highlight of the day was shaking hands with tom..
Shedfest was great (I was in the white 68 VW Bay by the ferris wheel), but having a family in Wheelchairs (not myself but my wife and 2 children use them, lifes been shit the last few years) it was quite poor from an accessibility perspective, the disabled toilets were very hard to find (and none of the stewards knew where they were), and getting near the stage was nigh on impossible with wheelchairs.
That's definitely something else that could be improved next time.
Won’t give me a refund, tried to find somewhere to park nearby but having the second most stolen car in the uk I thought better of it. Applied for refund, heard nothing. Sent a follow up and still nothing.
It will probably take a week to hear back with the amount of emails they are going to have to get through
keep fighting. clearly they havent a figgin clue
it wasn't the small roads, Rory, it was the parking stewards. There could have been a 4-lane motoway leading right to the gate and it wouldn't have made any differene with them not letting in more than 5 cars at time. I would have thought it obvious that when there were up to 10,000 cars arriving they needed to keep it all flowing, and they were doimg the exact opposite.
Rory talks drivel. The dudes damage controlling is beyond the pale. Sounds like a politician that just been caught with a rented man
We had a fantastic time once we'd walked a mile to get in.
We abandoned the car on grass verge after being stuck for an hour, unable to turn around as we were on a single track lane.. Turns out it might have been a blessing as we missed a chunk of the queue and the carpark chaos walking in on foot.
However, the total lack of updates on any easy to find platform was really frustrating. We were searching the web whilst sat in traffic for any info and were only told to park up and walk by a passing dog walker!
I don't hold you guys responsible though, please keep up the good work and we'll see you at the next one!
NEC or 3 counties showground Malvern hold large car shows all the time, worth considering.😃
From memory and my last time at Mallory Park doing a track day, that venue is far too small for a huge car show and most of the roads leading there are through small villages etc
We had one big show last year in France, Merguez Tuning Show by a TH-cam channel, Vilebrequin, (which has now split) with close to 50 000 people attending and it was just unbearable.
The only thing you could get without waiting 2 hours was a sunburn …
It was at Nevers Magny-Cours circuit and quite a traffic jam too !
I think that car enthusiasts show should be over several days with on site camping just like IMM’s so that it splits the incoming traffic over 2 days.
Best of luck for the next one ❤
I am glad I did not go ... I was very close to buying tickets, but was worried about the weather following 9 months of rain. I guess I was wrong about the wrong things ...
Asif Rory didn’t bring equipment and I have 2 videos of the “live podcast” I feel purely horrible for the people who didn’t get in how come mat Armstrong wasn’t there if his unit is behind Mallory Park 😂😂😂 #shedfest #autoalex ❤
You have to appreciate how popular you guys are even 3/4% of your subscribers turn up you’ve got your hands full at any venue - I am from Yorkshire and we host events like this - VW fest etc - they have multiple entrances and exits - lots of signage around locally, council do diversions etc
I organised a group of around 40 people on a club stand. I wanted to say on behalf of all of them, despite the chaos, we all had a fantastic day, appreciate what everyone has done and were already talking about wanting to come back next year.
Yes it was a disaster
Took you 10 minutes into your podcast before you said sorry. A proper apology would have gone along way!
definately or just a separate one!!
super glad i got a showcar ticket, drove in at 8am without any traffic lmao, would have been gutted if i came all the way from the netherlands and i couldnt get in
3 guys winging it no wonder it went wrong. PH are great if you need to organise meeting 5 mates in Tesco car park 🅿️
Unfortunately I couldn't make it, but lads...... mistakes happen. You guys have quickly become a huge pillar of the car community. I've been through some shit over the past few years and you guys always raise my spirits and give me comfort when the anxiety hits. Please keep doing what your doing and hopefully I'll see you at Goodwood!!! PS... Congratulations on the little one!
Lads I had to work so gave my brother my 4 tickets and he took a couple of his mates and my dad drove. They got in luckily but their feedback was that the venue didn't work and they would have liked for a bit more going on. I love you lot and I was gutted I couldn't go but I think it'd be a good idea to invest in a venue where you have too much space and overall capacity rather than not quite enough. I'm attending a few events this year and all are probably from smaller entities but are being held at bigger and more established venues. Silverstone, Donnington, Santa Pod, Goodwood ect are all established and big enough to cope with the events that you guys are worthy of. All being said they had a great time and I'm gutted I missed it, just have confidence in yourselves to plan and execute in house at a venue deserving of the event you guys are capable of delivering 👍
Saw someone else's really happy video of shedfest and my beloved Alfred was in it . Awesome 🎉🎉🎉
I couldn't do the travel for shedfest because of work, pleased I didn't, been following you guys for ages now and love the content.
Definitely need a bigger and better venue for next year, some where like 3 counties show ground.
I appreciate the addressing of the problems for the event. personally left birmingham at 9:45, finally got in and parked around 15:15 so missed pretty much all the stage stuff unfortunately.
But most importantly i finally got to see some excellent cars (and also some impressive shitboxes!)
With any luck i'll hopefully get hold of showcase tickets for next year and get the full scope of the event.
Big love to you guys, keep making your financially ruinous moves. I'll be there every step of the way.
There’s a few hard truths here to reconcile. Did you have a risk assessment done? If so, did you really drill down into its minutiae? If so, did it have a traffic management plan? If so, and again, did you drill down into it? All of the issues you had would have played out if you had done and managed, a proper RA. It’s not good enough to blame your event coordinator, or the venue. For example, did you know what the flow of traffic might be and at what time? Did you pin the venue down with regards to their entry/exit points? Can you safely say you briefed the marshals correctly? And so on. Are you the event organizers or just the talent? If you want to be talent, then great just be that but make sure you have the right people in place. It’s f-hard to do these kind of gigs. My sincere question is, did you, hand in heart, drill down to all scenarios and possibilities? I’m just saying that maybe you thought more of t shirt designs and how good Rory’s mum would look in them than the actual event as a whole.
I think they said they were just there as the talent. The organisation was done seperately.
We need to talk about where the Shedfest video is......
Well I had an absolutely amazing time as a show car got there around 9:30 still got a great spot so many cool cars amazing people great stands and loved everything on the main stage so I think you all smashed it big love
In France, the biggest automotive channel (vilebrequin) held a 50.000 people meet at a track that once held F1 races. Still, the highway was actually blocked because the queue was several miles long xD
I got in with 2 mates, best day of the year!
Seen the line ditched the car stopped in a local for a swift half & walked a mile into the venue
Enjoyed one of THOSE BURGERS! with a beer
Amazing day full of laughs, making brilliant memories! Cheers guys 👍🏼
Sympathies for those who suffered the line sorry guys
I drove from Norway and took time off from work and couldn't get in after waiting several hours in que
lmaoo 😂
Luckily for me the email sent day b4 went in my junk mail so did not read it and followed the sat nav to Mallory park. I thought the que for 1 hour was bad but was nothing compared to others.
The other thing not mentioned was tickets not checked so anyone could get in. I parked up and walked straight on to circuit. If you view the video uploaded of the lap of shed fest In the opening seconds you can see this route from car park in to the show.
"Remember we are just humans".
Yea, so learn to walk before run.
While watching this, i just had the all the gear notifications come through, so now i know what to watch right after
The show itself was brilliant, Just the access had issues. I know exactly what the problems were, which there were 2 massive ones.
1. The what3words entrance was to keep traffic off the main road which meant anyone who went mainroad just jumped the queue to keep it clear.
2. There was a disabled access not being checked for tickets, many many people walked straight through the disabled gate. I reckon a good amount of parking was taken from non ticket holders.
The actual show was bloody brilliant though.
I drove 9 hours from the top of Scotland and stayed in a hotel and I couldn’t get into shedfest. I understand it was not you’re fault and I really appreciate the apology. I will still follow and support your channel since I love the content so much. Hopefully one day I can get the chance to see you guys live and possibly have a meet and greet. I drove home really disappointed and tired but hopefully next year will be better. Keep up the amazing videos and keep making us smile and laugh. Thanks Alex you’re the best TH-camr out here don’t let this get you down.
Cuck
Sorry to hear things didn't go quite to plan. I'm still going to try and go next year. I'm sure there will be lessons learnt .
We loved the original Cars & Coffee at Taylor's unit a couple of November's ago. (You tipped up your caravan with my son Jake inside, and we had a great chat over Phil 😊). Let's do another.
got in about 11ish, was an amazing day, made me feel the most normal i have in a while and really made my month just seeing you guys on stage. Im sorry to all the people who didnt make it but besides the traffic it was an amazing event.
If people drove on the motorway as designed then in theory you should not be able to undertake. So undertaking is fine until driving standards improve!!
Thank you for raising awarness for Chrons & Colitis. I was diagnosed when I was 16 years old. The silent killer that not many are aware of and medical research is vague.
I didn't attend this year, but i did attend last year which was great to meet you guys, and finding out Taylor is a fan of my 330i Touring, but have been to Mallory park for Retrorides, I'll be honest and agree with the fact that access to that track is genuinely quite poor and very few options in and out.
I'd suggest it maybe better to consider Donington or Silverstone, both tracks have excellent road access, decent facilities, both reasonably centrally located and right off the M1 in both aspects which should resolve a lot of the transport issues for next time.
You could even discuss having track time with a hot lap system, Retrorides does it at Goodwood where you can get 2 laps hot lapping your car round the track, this gives people a taster of track time but not put too much stress on their car.
My car was in the show, left Essex at 7 and got to Mallory for 9:30. Queued for a little while on track when the people on the ‘door’ were checking tickets and taking photos.
I thought it was a fantastic day, albeit the show car entrance not being signposted very well - followed some other people in and found it eventually.
Luckily because we were there before the show actually opened we had food early and didn’t queue at all, the pizza was incredible!
Stood chatting to some nice people about my car, had some laughs and looked at some shit cars (and a lovely Sierra cossie and a lot of BMW’s) in the sun
I decided to take the family to shedfest a couple of months ago and I thought it would be brilliant for my 11 month old daughter to experience her first car show. Unfortunately we were stuck in the traffic, and my fiancé decided to wait in the queue while I walked with my 10 year old stepson, and pushed my daughter in her pram through the lanes and fields to make sure I got them both in for the even half an hour. We eventually got in after a 3 hour journey and an hour in the villiage traffic, but we got to meet Alex, Freddy (Tavares), Ben (Dad Cars) and Mark McCann.
However, regardless of the outcome we will be at the next one to meet Taylor and his pet hamster. 🐹
Yeah out sat nav showed us being 2 miles from Venue at 10:15. Stand still and didn't get in till 4PM. Honestly gutting considering you didn't want us to turn up till 10:30. Ended up parking up, using the toilets then leaving. Love you guys but the Petrolhead team need to be looked at.
Gotta be Knebworth next year, you know they can handle that volume easy
Here’s an idea for next year! Maybe you could do with giving the NEC in Birmingham a call. Question: What would be the cost comparison against Mallory Park and car park hire (plenty of tarmac there to use!) at the NEC? Logistic there are excellent too!
Alex, shedfest is like your weight, it expanded massive over the last four years! Keep up the good work xx
A similar thing happened at Radwood in SF a few years ago. The traffic became a disaster and it took 3 hours to get in. Events can survive this - address it next time and use a new location that takes these things into account and life moves on.
As a classic car owner i agree with the not needing to be quick, even going slow in a classic is an experience, its so different to a modern car and it just makes you happy.
It was a great day! Met loads of awsome people nd their cars also gave some lads from wales a lift back to their car saved them the 2 mile walk 👊😅 It was unfortunate for the people that had to turn around hope they can come next year.... shit happens you couldn't predicated the unforeseeable. It was crazy seeing all the heads about go bigger next year!!!
Drop petrolheadonism and get a proper organizer. This shouldn't have happened. Also his response is bad: "were sorry you're mad"...
Get a proper venue and organizer and it will run properly
I am sat at home, with the sun out watching this within 15 minutes of this dropping. I will try and go to the event at Goodwood, depends on money and if I can get there.
Good to see that you are facing it ''head on'',, I was in the show car bit so I had no idea what was going on. I went with my Dad and got a few pics of him standing on the spot where I got run over by a Buell, during a race with EMRA after I had already high-sided myself off my GSXR. Recounting the story I was st on the track, propping myself up with my hands watching the bike flip end over end into the gravel, thinking I was fine, before I got hit in the shoulder by the 1200 Buell..End result, broken radius bone in my arm, ribs one, two and three and four, smashed and dislocated elbow, punctured lung. my shoulder blade was smashed into three bitsI and dislocated was conscious throughout.
Enough about me but it was good to re-connect with my Dad as he actually lives in TRNC, Cyprus (the Turkish part in the north).
We both had a great time and thanks to all of you for that, I really feel for those who either didn't get in or queued for hours, or didn't get in. You didn't miss much.... Who am I kidding, it was fucking great😁
It's incredible how fast this event has grown. It seems most motor racing circuits are not built for that amount of traffic. Perhaps going for a venue like the NEC might be an idea.
Holy shed, this looks so cool. Might need to check it out next year. Anotherone from Germany. You will not be the only festival with cue problems. So don’t worry, everybody did their best
To go to the what3words location and crawl for 2 miles for 2 hours into a field only to have people cut in when crossing a road from said field into Mallory Park was a piss take, and there needed to be a separate exit in the other direction
💯 mate
Bad crowd management can even lead to injuries (or worse). Asuming Chedfest will keep on growing this might have just been a good wake up call for you guys.
Hope to be there some day.
Love the channel👍
Excellent news about Big Pete...Taylor will sort it out properly. Landy is definately a keeper
We arrived at the back of the queue that had developed beyond the W3W at 10AM and we parked up at roughly 1:15PM. Luckily our 2 year old slept the first hour and then remainder was happy running around the back and listened to music and sang nursery rhymes with us, but she was so excited to stay in the Dadcars section and get scootered around her stickered up scooter 😊 massive shout out to @dadcars Ben and lovely family and Joe for looking after all the youngsters. It’s made a massive impression on our little one because each time she sees the Dadcars sticker on our cars she would point and say Uncle Ben ❤
First of all, having just opened the video... WELCOME BACK ROGER!
Money grabbing youtubers that dont actually care strike again
I know it'll be spenny, but you could always try and book Silverstone for Shedfest '25. Will have no issues in and out of there as they tend to host 100,000+ (people) for grand prix race day.
Silverstone is definitely overkill, but definitely something bigger than Mallory next time
Hold it at Silverstone and end up paying £100 per ticket!!!
A venue like the nec arena would be ideal for this
10:33 the venues not used to hosting a car show “retrorides gathering ouch 😫”
I'm now glad the tickets were sold out when I went to buy them. Oh dear what a mess.
Arrived about 910am and everything was easy, drove straight in, parked up walked down to the gates, was about 10 people from the front of the queue, got to go in early, got a fist bump from Alex at the gate. Saw everything, hung around until 3pm and drove back to Devon. Absolutely fantastic day. Loved it, zero drama or traffic. Can't wait for the next one.
That’s the problem though you must not have seen the email we got the day before ordering people to not arrive before 10:30. So thousands of people drove to one specific location all at the same time. It was carnage
Same here! All people complaining need to plan better. Got there at 9.45 and only was in standstill for no more than 10 minutes and parked up pretty quickly and had a hell of a time
@@samimistry358 we were told to arrive after 10:30, so you just ignored the email they specifically sent out? good for you.
@@ligma_nutz it's called being prepared. I didn't mind waiting near by at a service station or a Tesco for example. Didn't want to block the roads. But leaving early is always good prep. Never had problems leaving early. Had problems leaving late. So for those complaining I empathise with. But for those that didn't prepare, I do not. Was a great show and had such a community feel. Less toxicity man
@@CozzyB I think his point was that he prepared and was also prepared to be turned away early. However countlss car shows I've been to, always arrive early. That goes for football matches too. Beat the traffic and stop somewhere if needs be. Not a Biggie man
You need to do it at a F1 circuit with that many people.
Maybe Mallory park isn’t the best location for an event like shed fest and I think for future ones it would be wise to look at alternative venues