San Francisco neighborhood trashed after huge Red Bull racing event, wild videos show

Residents in a San Francisco neighborhood are outraged after a Red Bull Formula One event left its streets trashed and properties damaged.

“People climbing onto residents’ houses, standing on parked cars, wrecking trees and bushes,” one Reddit user wrote. “Hundreds of Lime scooters abandoned and blocking pathways, forcing people to walk in the street. People parking and blocking residents’ driveways. People pissing on residents’ houses and shrubs.”

People watching from balconies and roof of a multi-story building. — People crowded onto private property in the San Francisco neighborhood to get a better vantage point of the F1 race. Instagram/dilek_oluklu

“Absolutely atrocious behavior and horrible crowd control. Very poorly executed,” the user added.

The event — the Red Bull Showrun — took place Saturday and drew at least 40,000 spectators. But locals along Marina Boulevard were left to clean up the aftermath.

Some described the event as “chaos” and “poorly planned.”

“Whether you’re from here or not, it’s someone’s property and someone’s home,” one Marina Boulevard resident, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, told the San Francisco Standard.

“Folks are just upset,” she added.

A blue and red Red Bull Racing truck flying through the air above a street. — The Red Bull Showrun — took place Saturday and drew at least 40,000 spectators to San Francisco. Instagram/San_Francisco_Now

Broken branches and plant pots were scattered along sidewalks, and some garage doors and windows were damaged.

In videos posted to Instagram, thousands of people could be seen crowding the area and climbing traffic and street signs to get a better view due to the lack of tiered seating. Some even cut down branches to gain a higher vantage point.

Others noted what they described as a lack of police presence.

“Horribly planned event,” another Reddit user wrote. “They severely underestimated the amount of people and didn’t pay the city for the OT for enough police presence. Why weren’t there bleachers?”

Some said there were only two points of entry and exit at Marina Green, so crowd flow quickly became gridlocked.

A Red Bull Racing F1 car on a city street, with spectators behind barriers and on rooftops. — At one point, sections of the crowd began chanting “please turn around” in an effort to ease the congestion before others ultimately exited elsewhere. Instagram/@nitemii

One attendee said attempts to leave near Fort Mason turned into a standstill as waves of people trying to enter collided with those trying to exit, forcing some to climb down onto the marina rocks to escape.

At one point, sections of the crowd began chanting “please turn around” in an effort to ease the congestion before others ultimately exited near the Palace of Fine Arts.

The local news site reached out to the mayor’s office — the mayor had suited up in F1 gear and driven a race car across the street during the event — but officials deferred comment to Red Bull, which did not respond to requests.