I agree, I emailed MD last year about the spectators being allowed to park in the pit area's for the same reasons you mentioned. Last year while picking up my time slip I almost got hit by some doofus cruising through the gate at faster than normal speed, in a hurry to get to his friends I guess. In their reply they said they would look into it and said hey, we could close the gate that would solve the problem, but have been their after that and it was buisness as usual.