Infineon Raceway is exploding with race fans and soaring temperatures today.  There are literally thousands of people watching this weekends big NASCAR Race in Sonoma, CA.

If you ever get a chance to take a birds eye view from any of the vistas along the track, you will see bright colors of tents, trucks and of course colorful race cars going a few hundred miles an hour towards the finish line.  Friday drew more race fans than expected, which is always a sign of what’s to come.  The staff at Infineon moved quickly to install more crowd control fencing from Hanson & Fitch to make sure that the people stay safe and allow pedestrian traffic to move freely along the pathways.t.  The feedback from the spectators has been very positive and the perception is that the race is well organized.  One fan commented, “when you don’t think about crowds or being worried about seeing the cars go around track, you know there was a lot of preparation done to put on this race”. 

The City of Palo Alto will use Hanson & Fitch Temporary Site Services to install an additional bike rack area for the up and coming Amgen Bike Race that is coming to California. The event starts on February 17 -24th and will be bringing the drama and excitement of a professional bicycle stage race to the California coast. The world’s top professional teams will compete over an eight-day, 650-mile race on a route that includes the California redwoods, wine country and the Pacific Coast.

We are very excited about the tour this year and are proud to be a part of this year’s event. There will be thousands of spectators that will be coming out to watch the bike race and are encouraged to ride their bicycle to the viewing areas.

There will be a few bicycle valets to park the spectator bicycles in the City of Palo Alto and on campus at Stanford University. Hanson & Fitch will be providing the temporary fence and bike racks for these areas.

Hanson & Fitch Temporary Site Services is currently installing temporary fence on and around (3) three golf courses on the Monterey Peninsula for the up and coming AT&T Golf Event.

The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is a 72-hole PGA TOUR golf championship dating back to the 1930′s when Bing Crosby gathered a ‘few friends’ to raise money for charity… and have a little fun.

Monterey and Pebble Beach are known for golf. Stunning views, exclusive clubs, prime real estate and incredible landscapes have long attracted the rich and famous. The AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro AM is played in the first months of each new year and is a hot ticket for tourists. Golf greats like Phil Mickelson. Vijay Singh, Justin Leonard and others play the Pebble Beach Links as well as celebrities like Kevin Costner, Al Michaels, Kenny G, Dan Marino and other notables.

A premiere event like this that will be televised worldwide receives the same attention to detail and customer service as every other job we do. The wind and storms have made this installation more difficult than in years past, primarily due to the high wind that comes off of the ocean. We have had to send crews out to reinstall fence from the prior day and in some cases more than once to the same site.

Friday, we had an interesting request from Stanford University Event Department. 

We had a request for temporary fencing for a large bicycle race that is coming to California in February 17, 2008.  The race is called the 2008 Amgen Tour of California, which will display 17 professional cycling teams to compete in a world class cycling race across California.

There will be 136 athletes that show up for the event and it will start in Palo Alto. The field of both international and domestic cyclists includes teams based in Luxembourg, France, Germany, Belgium, the Netherlands and Denmark, as well as several elite American groups, including the local Fairfield-based Jelly Belly Cycling team.

The request was for 6′ temporary fencing, which is a standard size when it comes for enclosing an area for an event.  As the conversation continued with David Cappelloni, who was organizing the event, mentioned that he was going to hire a full crew of people to pick up the Universities bike racks that were placed around campus for the event and that this was going to take many man hours to accomplish this task.  I asked David if he had seen our green bike rack barricade that many of our customers use in their events as bike racks to hold the bikes in place during the event.  

I sent him a few pictures and the rest was history…..we were able to present a reasonable cost solution that saved the University money and allowed Hanson & Fitch Temporary Site Services to coordinate the entire installation and removal for the event. 

Stanford University is expecting 1000 bikes to be parked on campus for the event.  It should be a great Event