I think they lied. I pulled into Drive 1 at 9:02, and you could tell they'd already been letting people in for probably 10-15 minutes. My guess is, once the traffic jam backs up to the 219 ramps, they bail.
Drive 2 opened at 8:55am Traffic on Abbott Road to the north was lined past the scoreboard. To the south, in front of Hammer's Lot a little backed up mainly cars headed in to One Bills Drive.