As a newbie who was there for the first time on my own. There was a lot of standing around on the Sat afternoon after the drives. Sure, I walked around and chatted to everybody and looked at the cars, but as someone who wasn't interested in preening for the S&S, the afternoon dragged. I admit, if FMA was with me we might have gone off for an hour or so, and it does give people a chance to do their own thing. Maybe a slightly later drive out on the Sat, or as people have said, traders or something in the afternoon?
To counter that, I thought the organisation from Graham and everyone else regarding food (I wasn't there on the Sun), hotels, the drives etc was bloody fantastic, and as a first timer to a car meet, was really really impressed.