The problem was the sheer number of things they had media doing at the event, and how the event managers "handled" everyone attending. Your group was directed here and directed there.
I had planned on having a good hour or so with the game, and started collecting videos accordingly. I planned on capturing extensive footage of each car and all of the available menus. Instead, I had just fifteen minutes or so with the game, before they announced the media vans were leaving, and a rep came up and pressured me to go.
If I had realized my time would have been so short, I would have gone about collecting the footage in a completely different way, and I suspect others attending the event were in the same position.