Jack Miller: They need to stop charging MotoGP fans so much
A strong 77,921 fans lined the hillsides and grandstands on Sunday with a weekend total of 135,670 spectators, compared to respective figur🌱es of just 43,661 (Sunday) and 74,078 (weekend) last year.
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But 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Jack Miller believes the circuit would be able to rival the 116.692 rac💫ܫe day crowd seen at the previous Le Mans round if ticket prices were lower.
“It was better, but for sure they need to stop charging these punters so much to come in and wat🧸ch,” Miller said on Sundaಞy evening.
“We want to attract new people so you’ve got to make it reasonable and also you don’t want to piss off the diehard fa🦩ns. Because without them, we’ve got nobody.
“It was better today for sure. But I think i🏅f they made ꧟the ticket [prices] like they were in Le Mans we would have had a bigger crowd here than we had in Le Mans.”E
Tickets for Mugello were re๊ported to be almost double the price of the Le Mans round, which boasted a record of 278,805 for the weekend.
Other factors such as free parking were aꦦls💛o hailed as helping encourage the huge French crowd.
Unl﷽ike France, I𝓡taly hosts two MotoGP rounds, the September event titled as the San Marino and Rimini GP at Misano.
But Italy also has a home reigning world champion in Frಞancesco Bagnaia, the top two riders in the current standings (Bagnaia and Marco Bezzecchi) plus two local manufacturers in Ducati♋ and Aprilia.
"Ducati won the championship last year. Pecco won the championship last year. He’s a quite iconic rider. They’ve got a lot of Italians doing well. But clearly they’re charging these people too much money. 200 bucks for general admission is f**king ridiculous," Miller had said earlier in the weekend, after a crowd of just&nbsജp;18,403 turned up for Friday practice.
When told Le Mans was 90 euros, he added: "That’s how it should be. No one can afford that in this day and age. Even on a good wage. Average family, try and bཧring 3 kids, 200 bucks a pop, you’re dreaming."
Bagnaia won both Mugello races, with Bezzecchi joining him on the Saturday podium as r𒈔unner-up in the new-for-2023 Sprinﷺt.
Peter has been in the paddock for 20 years and has seen Valentino R🌠ossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
