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I see it this way. CoTA was built for F1. Those people that go for that event, don't camp. Most of them come from SA and Mexico anyway. So, the facility is not designed for camping. Just like you mentioned, new facilities are not designed for that (unless it's an oval).
Places like Road America, Watkins Glen, Lime Rock, Mid-Ohio, Laguna and Road Atlanta are the old school types of tracks in a park like setting. It encourages camping and I've camped at all of them more than once. Sebring, is just a tradition. Even look at Daytona. It's just a sea of people in the infield. Again, it's tradition. You have to earn that tradition, not just make a fancy new track and think just because you hold the two largest global series' out there that it will automatically get you that clout. Think about it. If LeMans was invented tomorrow, who here would care?
CoTA will continue to struggle. Then when you have events in September, it's just a struggle just because of football. Like it or not, it's just way too popular and in Texas, way, way, way too popular. IMSA and now PWC are making a mistake by having their events at that track during football season.
PWC is really making a mistake by having it during the same weekend as the home opener for the Longhorns. That event should be at Lime Rock just because it would be packed. WEC should be running at Road Atlanta that same weekend for the same reason. Instead, both are running at track that can't get many spectators on a good weekend, let alone a football one.
Maybe make a new poll. How many would go to Lime Rock for PWC or Road Atlanta for WEC over labor day weekend as opposed to the September events for both at CoTA?
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