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I am not so sure club racing needs a crowd at all to be perfectly honest.
I gave up on it many years ago as often, even in the fairly bulletproof late 80's and 90's the grids were small, uninspiring and racing was often average, though there was some good stuff at Cadwell when I used to go early doors.
If you live near a venue then it is understandable that you mght want to go a bit more, but the masses are not the lighest bit interested when you can go to a park with the kids for free, or the beach, or simply socialise. To be hoenst local venues should be dishing out free tickets to people anyway for club events, as a two way dont ***** about our track, and come and have a look yoou might like it, bring a friend etc etc.
How does motorsport run in Holland and France? Is it run by clubs or do the FFSA do everything or the ACO? I am not sure on their organisations?
There are far too many clubs running events over here, and they all want their piece of pie for the series they run, those days have to end surely?
But the bigger picture has to be participation, spectating. Do you really need security guards at club meetings? No. Do you need the venue hosting food outlets? No you can outsource and charge THEM instead of the spectator. Everything else is covered by entry fees. You are NEVER going to make any money from fans in club racing, so why bother charging them. Tracks only do it to make money, no other reason. Outsource it, its simple.
A commentator yes, but again the club can pay for that, most of them have more than enough money to put up a guy who can talk for a few hours, probably a club member, who actually would know more details about individuals than some hired help anyway.
Sadly our country is fll of short termism within motorsport, a quick buck, a piece of pie, NOBODY looks at the long term, the future and the legacy.
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