Car events on SPOOLED span the full enthusiast spectrum — from Saturday-morning cars & coffee meets to professional time-attack rounds. The events page is the single feed of every gathering on the platform, filterable by date, location, and category.
Two distinct routes share the events surface: curated events (recurring meets, official organizer postings, imported calendars) live at /events/[id]; posted events (a member spinning up an impromptu canyon run or a shop announcing a dyno day) live at /event/[id]. Both shapes appear in the same feed and follow the same filtering vocabulary.
What you can find on /events
- Upcoming events — every gathering with a future date, ordered chronologically.
- Type filtering — 36 event categories grouped into 8 super-categories (see below).
- Location filters — city, state, and radius for proximity searches.
- RSVP / interest — see who else is planning to attend; for posted events, comment threads run in line.
- Linked builds — when an attendee's build page is public, it's one click from the event roster.
- Recap posts — after the event, posts tagged with the event ID surface back on the event page.
The 36 categories, grouped
Filtering by category is the fastest way to slice the feed. The super-categories double as filter pills:
Total: 35 categories. If you're organizing something that doesn't cleanly fit, post it under the closest category and use the description to clarify — we're not adding a 37th to chase edge cases.
Coming up
Live from the events feed — soonest first.
How to find events near you
- Open /events.
- Set the location filter to your city or state.
- Pick a super-category — Track & Performance for HPDE / autocross / drift, Social & Casual for cars & coffee and meet-ups.
- Sort by date and you have your enthusiast calendar.
For specific event types — track days, drift events, dyno days, autocross, drag racing — go straight to the named category in the filter pills rather than searching by name. Organizers don't use consistent naming, but they all pick a category from the same list.
Posting your own event
Anyone can post an event. From the compose modal, pick post type Event, fill in the date, location, and category, and it lands in the feed and on the events page. RSVP and comments are on by default; you can see exactly who's coming before the day of.
Hosting recurring meets? Reach out and we'll set up a curated event series so it appears as a single ongoing entity rather than a fresh post every week. Useful for cars & coffee organizers and track day groups.