Jack Miller: They need to stop charging MotoGP fans so much
A strong 77,921 fans lined the hꩲillsides and gran🧸dstands on Sunday with a weekend total of 135,670 spectators, compared to respective figures of just 43,661 (Sunday) and 74,078 (weekend) last year.
Although still short of the glory days with Valentino Rossi,🌠 when the race day crowd peaked at 100,000 and 152,443 for the weekend in 2016, it was🍰 an impressive turnaround.
But 168澳洲5最新开奖结果:Jack Miller believes♛ the circuit would be able to rival the 116.692 race day crowd seen at the previous Le Mans round if ticket pr꧒ices were lower.
“It was better, but for♍ sure they need to stop charging these punters so♌ much to come in and watch,” Miller said on Sunday evening.
“We want to attract new people 🌳so you’ve got to make it reasonable and also you don’t want to piss ofꦫf the diehard fans. Because without them, we’ve got nobody.
“It was better today fo🐼r sure. But I think if they made the ticket [price꧃s] 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 reported ๊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 wer💜e also hailed as helping encourage the🧔 huge French crowd.
Unlike France, Italy hosts two MotoGP rounds, the September event titled as the San Ma༺rino and Rimini GP at Misano.
But Italy also has a home reigning world champ🃏ion in Francesco 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 yea꧟r. 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 1🍨8,403 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 bring 3 kids, 200 bucks a pop, you’re dreaming."
Bagnaia won both Mugello races, with Bezzecchi joining him on the 🔯Saturday podium as runner-up in the new-for-2023 Sprint.
Peꦆter has been in the paddock fo꧑r 20 years and has seen Valentino Rossi come and go. He is at the forefront of the Suzuki exit story and Marc Marquez’s injury issues.
