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Originally Posted by Novacek
Again, these aren't estimated attendance. This is a story that was obviously written by someone who doesn't understand what a mass gathering permit is or how they work. These numbers are more like the maximum physical capacity of the track.
Come one, if they really were estimating these attendances, they never would have the 800,000 number on their website. Just adding all these numbers up (plus F1) is way over a million (not counting concerts and other events).
Grand-am was multi-day. Are you really claiming they had <10k per day?
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No, those numbers don't add up to "way over" a million.
300K for F1 (265K announced attendance)
300K for Grand Am
300K for Supercars
225 K for MotoGP
= 1.125 Million...which falls nicely between 800K and 1.2M.
...and again, if they're just using maximums there, then why only 225K for MotoGP when it should easily outdraw Grand Am & Supercars?
Grand Am was 2 days. I'm saying they had less than the claimed 25K in 2 days...and there was basically nobody there on Friday (still don't understand why the 2-day event was scheduled for a Fri-Sat). The 3 permanent GSs hold 20-22K people combined. They were pretty much empty all weekend despite the fact that staff was not checking tickets and we could sit anywhere we wanted with our GA tickets. At the peak of the weekend, they were
maybe 15-20% full, collectively. As you can see in the photos, that's a very generous estimate. So where were the other 10-15K people on race day? They weren't out in the GA areas. The entire track from T2 to T15 was pretty much empty the entire time, despite having some of the best views available. There were easily less than 100 people out there at any given time.
The only real accumulations of people outside the 3 permanent GSs all weekend were above T6. Usually 10-20 people:
People were few & far between above the esses:
Anyone with a ticket could walk the paddock all weekend. It was basically empty other than a few fans & mostly team members. Fans were welcomed into the garages as well, but there just weren't many people around. My son and I had free reign:
Nobody home outside the GSs:
Main GS, Rolex Practice:
Main GS, shot from pits
during Continental Tire race:
T15 GS
during Pro Mazda race:
T15 GS
during Rolex Series race:
This is the closest thing to an actual crowd all weekend. Anyone with a ticket could do a pit walk before the Rolex race.
Maybe 1000 people showed up for it.
T1
during Rolex Race:
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