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Originally Posted by BertMk2
The difference is with the MSV 'festival' events that I've been to there has been a full program of track activity related to whatever the 'theme' of the festival is (very loosely related in some cases!). If you just want to watch the racing there's enough of it to make it a worthwhile trip. All the off track stuff is 'extra' and crucially the festivals are no more expensive than other race events.
Maybe there's a lot more to come from the Silverstone event? But even so - it's going to have to be pretty epic to even come close to justifying that price.
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At some of them, yes. For example the Mini Festival is wall-to-wall racing but usually gets one of the poorest crowd of all the Festivals. Whereas 'Festival Italia', which last year featured just two racing categories, drew in a huge audience. Motorsport fans do not attend those events, but sadly everyone else does!
That's why the 'Lotus Festival' has gone down the pan- it was basically an MSVR meeting, full of racing right up to the curfew, and it didn't bring the crowds in.