Mexico gaat niet zweven door uitverkochte race

Waarom een corrupt zootje? Er worden logische verklaringen gegeven voor de uitverkoop. Was het bij elke GP maar zo.

Dat is naar aanleiding van een artikel op een andere website/forum. Mensen die namelijk een kaartje wilden kopen waren daartoe niet in staat. Lang verhaal, zal ff kijken of ik deze nog kan vinden hier op het forum.

@ Max Kimi: Gevonden! Origineel gepost door Brabham-BT50:

I was close to write to the court proposing to present an article about the tickets for the Mexican GP. At the end I couldn’t put together enough evidence -people didn’t want to talk to me- about what I -and many others- consider… well, the usual in Mexico: just another case of corruption.
The tickets went first to pre-sale for card holders of two banks: Banamex and Santander through Ticketmaster. First problem: Mexico doesn’t have the infrastructure to deal with massive internet traffic as other countries. Every time a big event happens in Mexico Ticketmaster is unable to handle the traffic in its site -to be fair in Mexico buying anything online is a pain in the ***, not only on Ticketmaster-. Interestingly one person has in his hands all the telecommunications infrastructure of the country, this person has used this power to block other companies to make develops and became one of the richest men in the world by stealing from basically every Mexican -and foreigner- who has used a telephone in Mexico. This is the same person who fills the Force India cars with the stickers of his companies.
Second problem: the tickets didn’t really went out for sale, only a small portion of them did. I personally tried to buy tickets in general admission, within 10 seconds of the sale being opened they were sold out, then the site crashed. The same happened for all tickets, except the most expensive ones. The Facebook page of Autodromo Hermanos Rodriguez received within a couple of hours hundreds of negative comments and complains. To “clean” their mess they posted photographs of people holding fresh purchased tickets in the ticket office of the Autodromo. Theses photos were later removed when people complained about having called to the Autodromo and being asked NOT to go to the ticket office since tickets would be available ONLY online and recognizing and posting links to the Facebook profiles of the people in the photos; at least two of the four or five people holding tickets in the photos presented by the Autodromo advertised themselves as re-sellers of events’ tickets in their profiles -this is the people who didn’t answer my messages when I “tried to buy” tickets from them-.
The same farce was repeated a few days later when the tickets “went out for sale” for the general public.
Tickets were always offered at absurd prices by re-sellers within minutes of the pre-sale and this was basically the only way to purchase them.
At least one complete section was never on sale, anywhere, but was advertised and does exist, so the Autodromo was forced to sell at least one ticket in this section to avoid fall in illegality -only a technicality, in Mexico laws mean nothing-.
Let say things correctly: this year’s event wasn’t a success with the spectators, what was successful was the fraud prepared between organizers and re-sellers, because they knew if they had actually sold the tickets to spectators it would have been a success.
Finally, the official prices make of the Mexican GP the most expensive GP in the calendar. It’s cheaper to travel to the USA or Canada -yes, including transportation and hotel- for their GP that attending the Mexican GP in most of the sections offered.
Does this mean the Autodromo will be empty on the race weekend? No. It will be packed, I’m sure, I have no hope -at all- on my fellow nationals having common sense.

Thanks Szixxx. Nooit geweten.

Klopt Ik verwees inderdaad daar naar. Bedankt voor het opzoeken SZIXXX.

Tja, alles buiten je veluwe op de camping is een corrupt zooitje, NBTT.
Je moet je eens vaker verdiepen in de Nederlandse politiek.
Nederland stevent af naar een bananenrepubliek met de omkoopschandalen van tegenwoordig.

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Neem daarom de petitie die ik elders heb geplaats over en stuur deze naar de webbeheerders.

Als Slim alle kaartjes heeft gekocht, dan moet hij nog wel mensen vinden die op de tribune wil gaan zitten. In Bahrein heeft dat 2 jaar gewerkt. Daarna waren de tribunes gewoon leeg.

Inderdaad. De vraag is hoe blij wereldwijde sponsors uiteindelijk zullen zijn met steeds meer zandbak-races waar geen hond op de tribunes zit...

ja, ik vraag me af welke race het ook alweer is, ik denk China, waar je rond een bepaalde bocht van die gigantische tribunes hebt staan waar ik nog nooit een dooie hond op heb zien zitten.
Van ellende hebben ze er maar reclames op aangebracht, triestig eigenlijk

@Pastor Maldonado: Was ook in Turkije, daar legden ze nog net geen takken op de tribune om de boel te camoufleren... ;)