Race Day attendance figures.

[Ranger]

Could someone please tell me the attendance figures of all the races (on race day) on last year's calendar?

This question comes from the noticably large crowd (120,000+?) at Jerez last weekend, and reading about how some venues don't fill 20,000 seats come the business end of the weekend.

[leopard]

We are talking about it, see next thread about Jerez, or else we can place this topic in more appropriate place here

[ChrisS]

Jerez: 131,162
Valencia: 129,446
Catalunya: 107,101
Sachsenring: 93,748
Assen: 91,500
Mugello: 89,200
Brno: 84,125
Le Mans: 76,200
Donington: 68,319
Motegi: 63,195
Laguna Seca: 51,378
Phillip Island: 44,627
Sepang: 43,182
Estoril: 41,016
Istanbul: 38,123
Shanghai: 32,402
Losail: 3291

[Ranger]

Jerez: 131,162
Valencia: 129,446
Catalunya: 107,101
Sachsenring: 93,748
Assen: 91,500
Mugello: 89,200
Brno: 84,125
Le Mans: 76,200
Donington: 68,319
Motegi: 63,195
Laguna Seca: 51,378
Phillip Island: 44,627
Sepang: 43,182
Estoril: 41,016
Istanbul: 38,123
Shanghai: 32,402
Losail: 3291

Champion! Cheers for that.

[ChrisS]

If you look at those numbers, they reveal a problem with MotoGP that also relates to the sponsors discussion we are having.

I think its save to expect about the same numbers this season plus about 75000 spectators at Misano. That would mean that more than 40% of MotoGP spectators come from 2 countries

And that shows on the sponsors as well, Repsol, Telefonica, Fortuna, Spanish companies sponsoring MotoGP mostly because it’s popular in Spain. Fiat, sponsoring Yamaha because of Rossi is extremely popular in Italy. These sponsors are here to get national exposure, not global exposure.

[Corny]

And that shows on the sponsors as well, Repsol, Telefonica, Fortuna, Spanish companies sponsoring MotoGP mostly because it’s popular in Spain. Fiat, sponsoring Yamaha because of Rossi is extremely popular in Italy. These sponsors are here to get national exposure, not global exposure.

For sure that's true.. But prefer to see a race like Mugello a billion times than a race like Turkey, Shanghai or Qatar..

Someone's got a list for about 10 years ago?

[Corny]

Jerez: 131,162
Valencia: 129,446
Catalunya: 107,101
Sachsenring: 93,748
Assen: 91,500
Mugello: 89,200
Brno: 84,125
Le Mans: 76,200
Donington: 68,319
Motegi: 63,195
Laguna Seca: 51,378
Phillip Island: 44,627
Sepang: 43,182
Estoril: 41,016
Istanbul: 38,123
Shanghai: 32,402
Losail: 3291

Mugello less than Assen

[fatman]

If you look at those numbers, they reveal a problem with MotoGP that also relates to the sponsors discussion we are having.

I think its save to expect about the same numbers this season plus about 75000 spectators at Misano. That would mean that more than 40% of MotoGP spectators come from 2 countries

And that shows on the sponsors as well, Repsol, Telefonica, Fortuna, Spanish companies sponsoring MotoGP mostly because it’s popular in Spain. Fiat, sponsoring Yamaha because of Rossi is extremely popular in Italy. These sponsors are here to get national exposure, not global exposure.

Very good observation Chris. Obviously TV audiences are much much higher for each race but the TV audience means nothing to someone who's looking at sponsoring Ilmor or any of the back markers.

[leopard]

Just looked back at map of mid-east, Qatar, Bahrain, aren't even bigger than Singapore, It doesn't look the right place for us to hope bigger local spectator from such small nations. How much anyway Bahrain can attract local F1 viewer?

Similarly Singapore is currently approaching to host their own F1. This small country, which is to enlarge the land illegally trough reclamation from smuggling tons of sands from my nation, ops politic , might encourage running F1 because they are one of the biggest world trade center in Asia.

I am not sure about Qatar and Bahrain, UAE looks more promising in term of International traffic than the aforesaid countries. They might have been listed in F1 and Motogp calendar for solely reason of oil money.

Usually those new race of new nations out of regular nations, will have to be reviewed in every three seasons. Let's see next year, since Qatar started their race from 2005 and this year is the third season, will they be trusted to host the same motorsport event?

[ChrisS]

For 2006 Bahrain got 32,500 seats sold and 40,000 attendance (Bahrain University students were given free tickets) about the same numbers in attendance but probably fewer tickets sold than 2005

That is a common problem with new races at countries without racing background. When the initial excitement for the race is gone it’s hard to get people to go to the race every year. Malaysia had the same problem when they first got a race but they seem to be doing OK now, the 2006 F1 race had 107,000 spectators (60% foreigners). For 2007 they are targeting 125,000 spectators (50% foreigners 50% locals). With Singapore joining F1 it would be interesting to see if the foreign spectators will be divided

BTW Qatar became part of the MotoGP calendar in 2004