I'm ok with space saving. I'm the recipient of that favor more often than I'm the one doing the saving. So yea, I'm that dick and I'm sorry if I've ticked you off because I couldn't arrive until some time after tech opens (I've been doing better about arriving before tech closes at least)
We here on the West Coast have our own Terminally Confused-esque chowline with Amanda. She feeds several teams for the entire weekend and typically the first affiliated team to arrive to the track will try to save her (and her CrazyMike) space because she works on Fridays and doesn't arrive until it is time to prepare dinner for 50-100+ people. HQ is also kept fed while they are at the track, so having proximity to them is also desirable.
Alan Frisbee, who is now retired, has been very gracious in the past with his personal time, arriving early and saving spots for Amanda-affiliated teams. He also brings at least one jug of hand cleaner to leave in the bathrooms, and brings lots of oft-needed supplies and tools for others to borrow, even when he is not drivng. Others I'm indebted to include Anton, Wendy, Overzet, Cheseroo, Q, FyremanBill, Robb and a host of others who have allowed me to squeeze in here and there.
Some of us run multi-car efforts whereby many cars captained by different owners share multitudes of drivers across all the cars, and we benefit greatly from the car owner who arrives first to save spots for those of us who have to drive at least 10 hours to arrive at the second closest track to our homes.
So yea, I'm biased.
But I also have been on the flip side where I was told, "I don't care if you brought 3 cars, you only get 1 team spot. The 10x20 spots are PER TEAM, dude."
Your post is a good reminder we all need to be courteous and not take more space than absolutely necessary, even if we're saving space for an affiliated team.