I didn't get to the track until 7:30 and watched cars make 2-3 passes while I was there. If you showed up at 5:30 you could have easily made 5-6 passes.

I'm not even sure what went wrong with your night, the track seemed to be going just fine. Aside from the bike getting dumped, the Civic breaking an axle and the Mustang spinning into the rail... nothing really went wrong.