I guess it being a 1/4 mile isn’t directly relevant to the plot but the 1/4 mile is a standard measurement for a drag race.
It does have meaning.

And it has enthusiasts running and moderating things that are just about able to keep up with the userbase.
It wouldn’t take much more to be overwhelming.

But you could host a personal one without risk, right?

Mutual aid is a form of [collaborative] political participation in which people take responsibility for caring for one another and changing political conditions, not just through symbolic acts or putting pressure on their representatives in government but by actually building new social relations that are more survivable.

Charity comes with eligibility requirements that relate to these moral frameworks of deservingness, such as sobriety, piety, curfews, participation in job training or parenting courses, cooperation with the police, or identifying the paternity of children.
Nonprofitization has reproduced antidemocratic, racist, and colonial relationships between the winners and losers of extractive, exploitative economic arrangements.

You can change the squares on the front panel!!!

/s