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2007 Budd's Creek weekend attendance was listed at 75,000, broken down it looked like this:
Sunday 40,000
Saturday 27,500
Friday 7500
In the past few weeks I read two interviews stating they expected the 2010 Colorado attendance to be 3X that of a National. This years Thunder Valley National drew 18,000 so the hoped for MXDN attendance was 54,000.
The official 2010 MXDN attendance figure is 32,000 for the weekend. Giving it a similar breakdown to 2007 would leave the daily attendance at around this much:
Sunday ~17,000
Saturday ~11,500
Friday ~3,500
Meaning the single day crowd for Sunday was actually slightly smaller than the National. Even though I didn't see the National in person, I did see it on TV and the crowd compared to the MXDN do seem very similar in size.
The people who plan these races need to learn some lessons. Do not put big races in the middle of the country 2000 miles from everyone. This race was a days drive from about 5 million people. A race in the East or in California is a days drive from about 100 million people. Only the most hardcore are paying for a plane so make it close to where there is actually some people living. The second thing is that the prices were outrageous...$90 for a ticket plus $20 for parking? This is insane and VIP stuff was even more insane. Who can afford to take their family to that, especially after flying in on a plane?
Sadly the FIM will use this as an excuse to pull back out of America. It's not the American race fans fault it's the idiots who put this race where they put it. There are quite a few world class tracks available on either coast, use them and charge a reasonable fee to get in and everybody will win. Just like they did in 2007.
Sunday 40,000
Saturday 27,500
Friday 7500
In the past few weeks I read two interviews stating they expected the 2010 Colorado attendance to be 3X that of a National. This years Thunder Valley National drew 18,000 so the hoped for MXDN attendance was 54,000.
The official 2010 MXDN attendance figure is 32,000 for the weekend. Giving it a similar breakdown to 2007 would leave the daily attendance at around this much:
Sunday ~17,000
Saturday ~11,500
Friday ~3,500
Meaning the single day crowd for Sunday was actually slightly smaller than the National. Even though I didn't see the National in person, I did see it on TV and the crowd compared to the MXDN do seem very similar in size.
The people who plan these races need to learn some lessons. Do not put big races in the middle of the country 2000 miles from everyone. This race was a days drive from about 5 million people. A race in the East or in California is a days drive from about 100 million people. Only the most hardcore are paying for a plane so make it close to where there is actually some people living. The second thing is that the prices were outrageous...$90 for a ticket plus $20 for parking? This is insane and VIP stuff was even more insane. Who can afford to take their family to that, especially after flying in on a plane?
Sadly the FIM will use this as an excuse to pull back out of America. It's not the American race fans fault it's the idiots who put this race where they put it. There are quite a few world class tracks available on either coast, use them and charge a reasonable fee to get in and everybody will win. Just like they did in 2007.
lol.
We started planning to go to the MXoN and then found out minimum ticket price $90 and pit pass $50. Parking $25. And if we wanted the VIP passes even more $$$!
We stayed home and watched it on the internet. We apparently aren't part of the glitterati Youthstream wants attending their races.
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That said, I thought the crowd there was pretty good. In my opinion, it was also a good chunk better than the National, and not as large as most of the prior MXoNs that I've been to.
Not sure if it qualifies as pathetic...or how/why it matters.
Butt load of money spent(track owner and fans) out there for sure.
at the national. It wasn't even close. It could easily have been double. This was the biggest crowd thunder Valley has ever seen. Those numbers they post are always intersting. Not always sure how they come up with those.
You also have to consider the general population numbers of the area. Pick any location in the SE and you have Atlanta, Charlotte, Jacksonville and Birmingham with in a 4 hours drive time.
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RED BULL FIM MXoN – QUICK FACTS
Circuit length: 1740 mt
Type of ground: intermediate hard pack
Temperature: 26° C
Weather conditions: sunny
Crowd attendance during weekend: 32000
The highest attendance ever at the Washougal National is 24,000 in 2003.
according to YS the crowd attandance in Glen helen (gp weekend) was 17 000 ... i think 1700 was closer ...
Thunder Valley seemed like a very good and vocal crowd and the tickets were pretty expensive, but i think the event was a huge success. The track looked great and the best team won, and that seemed to make the fans pretty happy too.
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That sure makes things a lot more expensive for the organizers. With that being said, they are little greedy bastards, aren`t they. But to call Luongo cancer is a little overboard. I think he has done wonders for the GP`s if you look at were he started and were they are now. Things don`t happen overnight, and I`m sure he has a bigger plan
32,000? If so, then IMO that is a good first event.
What the heck was wrong with them, driving right by something like this?
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